Canon’s new plug-in will allow for simple and easy transfer of video content from Canon’s EOS DSLR cameras directly into Final Cut Pro. The EOS MOVIE Plugin-E1 will take advantage of Final Cut Pro’s powerful Log and Transfer feature, which allows users to select and mark the video directly while it is still on the camera, add custom metadata and ingest the clips in the background so the editing can begin immediately. The plug-in will be compatible with Final Cut Pro 6 or higher and currently supports Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II, EOS 7D and EOS 1D Mark IV cameras.

We’ve just been informed that Canon publishes a series of white papers detailing some of the finer points of their line of digital SLRs. The documents aren’t the usual marketing material–there are a lot of very deep details that only an engineer who also knows English particularly well (a rare feat, I assure you) would be able to articulate. You can learn things from a white paper that a spec sheet can’t even begin to get into.

We’ve not stumbled upon many other product-specific white papers, let alone a cache of them for an entire product line. If you’re a manufacturer of any products that deal with video and you’re reading this, let’s see your white papers, regardless of topic–whether product-specific or just technology-specific. We’re eager to see what you have.