Realtime Playback

Hello everyone!
Have been doing some filming on the Canon EOS5D with great results and now pulling my hair out over trying to edit it with Final Express. The main problem being it just doesn't play this footage back realtime, starting in the preview monitor and similarly frustrating in the timeline where it always demands to render first...unbearably time consuming. The thing that bothers me most is that imovie8 can play these films perfectly fine...and there I go out of my way to buy a decent editing software and then FCE foes this. I am hoping I have just overlooked some settings...have tried all safe/unlimited RT, playing back in different qualities, trying various timeline settings, from Pal-DV to HDV-Apple...to no results.
My footage comes available both, as .mov or .mp4 , each with H.264 compressor and a framesize of 916x540 at 25fps.
Any hair-saving ideas, greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Sarah

FCE doesn't work with 25fps video. As far as I'm aware, it doesn't like 916x540, either. If you are using this video, you would first have to convert it with a utility such as [MPEG Streamclip|http://www.squared5.com>.
Alternatively, I saw when searching for your camera that it can shoot in some resolution of HD with 1080. If this is either 1440x1080 or 1920x1080 then FCE can handle it using Log and Transfer. However, if it is still at 25fps this doesn't solve your problem.
If you want to continue using this frame rate and image size, then you will have to convert it to a FCE-friendly format prior to importing.

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