Mark II with Premiere CS3

Wideweb... you have to make a custom one, or I think you can download presets.

When you go to new project, click the top right tab 'custom settings'
There you will want to set it up to the editing mode: desktop, 30fps, 1920x1080, square pixes, no fields, display format 30fps, and leave the rest the same.

Also, please put helpful comments in here, so people can come here and not have to read through a bunch of 'I know about this better than you and I really am not proving anything by just stating facts'. It isn't helping anyone learn.

Scott it also helps to learn if one would just spend the time to read his/her owners manual or press F1 on the keyboard for an answer.

Thank you guys, it's working.

I did read the manual. The question wasn't relevant to the manual, it was a post processing technique, which if someone else already mastered it and is pumping out clips why not have them answer a simple question. Why spend hours searching when I can post here and have someone give me the answer in minutes? Maybe that is the engineer in me, but I think it would be a common sense thing.

Also, I posted here to raise a flag to others who are processing similar to the way I was. I guess I could be a hermit and not share any information and have people have to go back and redo hours of work, as I did.

I am glad you got it working wideweb, this thread just paid for itself :-).

Even in the mainline industry there is confusion on how and what the 5D MKII captures in. Canon is notorious in providing just enough information to confuse many. In the XH-A1 it also shoots progressive .... ya a propriety pseudo progressive that is not a true or standard progressive. The newest processing software now has the 5D MKII capability built in, software from only a year ago does not. That is why many reverted to Neo Scene to try to make up for problems in the software. Scott had a great question, if it shoots a true 30p then why does Neo Scene convert it to 29.97p and if not using Neo Scene how to process it using PP CS3 and not change the characteristics of the capture. Scott's questions and answers helped a lot of people and he figured it out himself after all this discussion. Well done Scott ;)

seems they are 'changing' the 30fps on the mark ii to 29.97 to comply with TV production standards. http://www.fotomaf.com/blog/02/03/2010/por-fin-24-fps-en-el-video-de-la-canon-5d-mkii/ Interesting... I wonder if they give both options? Now that doesn't make sense , if what Jason was saying is true.

It looks like the update is not all that good. Gives 24fps but most will never use that. The change from 30fps to 29.97fps will only make a lot of people mad. What was needed was a 60fps, maybe some kind of auto focus for action video. Canon just released the camera too fast trying to hurt Nikon ... which they did.