Slow 7d footage

Any ideas as to why canon 7d footage may run slower on my pc than ex3, or how to fix this?

Probably the best enhancements would be a faster CPU and a faster I/O sub-system. With non-AVCHD material, the latter will likely have the biggest impact. For AVCHD, the former will.
Can you tell us all about your I/O sub-system, i.e. your HDD's, their size, speed, controller type, free space and how you have them allocated?
Good luck,
Hunt

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If my computer could handle full resolution .h264, I would. But since it can't I need to use proxy files.
I did find a solution yesterday though. Hopefully this can help anyone having the same problem. My solution is nothing new though. I had a feeling my problem stemmed from the mjpeg codec which for some reason doesnt play nice at 60fps. Rather than converting to videos to mjpeg, I converted my footage using MPEG-streamclip using the settings from gregbrand.co.uk. (I needed to use a NTSC compression though to keep the correct aspect ratio)
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one last thing: I'm also getting this problem here too:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5324398?start=15&tstart=0

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does canon have step-by-step instructions for ingesting xa20 slow motion footage into final cut 7 or premiere?

Hi davidframe!
Thanks for posting.
Not having made those applications themselves, Canon does not have step-by-step instructions for bringing slow motion footage into Final Cut Pro or Premiere. However, I am sure either Apple or Adobe have some helpful instructions they can provide if you contact them directly.
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I have been experimenting with various Media Encoder settings, and wondered if there was anything else I can try to get the smoothest video output possible, especially when changing frame rate and possibly resolution. For clarification, let me start from the beginning and explain what I'm doing and what I've tried so far. I'll try to be as brief as possible, but if I do go into too much detail, I apologize.
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4. Next, I noticed on ALL my output files (again, using the H.264 codec from Media Encoder) that the color of my video seemed to flatten quite a bit. It seems that the original footage has more contrast and saturation than the output files. I figured maybe this was just how it was, but when I re-imported the output files back into Premiere, they looked IDENTICAL to the original footage. And in Media Encoder's Source/Output windows, I don't see any difference there either. Is Quicktime again the culprit here, doing some odd things to the color of my videos?
5. Regarding Frame Blending, when is the best situation to enable this option in Media Encoder? I've read it is when mixing frame rates, but I honestly didn't see too much of a change except for a bit more blur, which I didn't care for.
6. Lastly, my conclusion is that 60fps yields the smoothest video, which is an obvious conclusion. However, I know that 60fps isn't the best or easiet frame rate for web delivery. It seems 30p is more the standard. Are there any integrated web players that would play 60fps? Can you get 60fps video on YouTube/Vimeo? If yes to any of these questions, can they do 720p and 1080p at 60fps?
Those are all my questions. I hope I am clear enough without being overly wordy and hopefully I didn't put too many questions into one post. Thanks in advance for any insight, I really appreciate it.

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