Now I know this is a Gopro blog but Im gonna stray away from that slightly to show you what everyone in the film making world is debating, the use of Dslr cameras for video. Most top brands now include full 1080p HD video capture as standard with a choice of frame rates to go with it, so you thought you were just buying that 7D to take amazing pictures, wrong. The quality of video produced by these cameras, properly used is mind blowing and more and more filmmakers are realising its importance. take the well renowned filmmaker Phillip Bloom, who not only advocates the use of dslr's for film but is changing the way filmmakers look at their equipment.

With that in mind here is a great vim eo video by Jason Levine that I came across and felt I needed to share, its clears up alot of the facts about using dslr footage straight from the camera, many thanks Jason and as you can see by the comments on his vimeo site, he is very open to answering any questions or problems you have using your dslr footage in adobe.

Hello friends! In this brief video, I'll show you the incredible power and ease of editing DSLR footage in Premiere Pro CS5. 

As a worldwide evangelist for Adobe (and having toured, promoting this software to Press and influencers over the last 8 months) I was able to capture some nice footage along the way with my Canon 7D. Some of it is featured here. 

The key to all of this: NATIVE DSLR EDITING. That's right. Straight from the camera to the timeline. No transcoding; no proxies. Full frame-size, mixed frame rates, all living together, harmoniously, in the Premiere Pro CS5 timeline. And what makes it all possible? The incredible new 64-bit Mercury Playback Engine. Oh, and Premiere Pro CS5 is a native 64-bit app as well now. ;)

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these are the export options used in the short.
Ok, here are my settings for the videos recently uploaded. Again, mileage may vary, and there are times where you can tweak to get better file size w/similar quality (based on content). For this vid, I used H.264, 1280x720, Progressive, Sq. Pixels, Profile:Main, Level:3.2, VBR 1-Pass, 6Mbps (min), 10Mbps (max(, Render @ Max Bit Depth, Max Quality (both checked). Audio at AAC, 44.1k Stereo, 192Kbps.