• VEGAS Pro

  Problem with importing a footage into a vegas pro 12.

  Posted by Sad Sad on March 31, 2013 at 12:21 pm

  Hi!
  I’ve got a footage in XDCAM HD422 50Mb/s codec on MacOS hard disc and I can’t import it into a sony vegas pro 12 installed on windows 7 64bit. Anyone knows what should I do? Here is the screenshot from Quicktime film inspector:
  https://i1.creativecow.net/u/247120/notitle.jpg
  I’ve been importing using File->Import…, but when I added it into a timeline, I’ve seen only audio tracks…

  John Rofrano replied 13 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  Mike Kujbida

  March 31, 2013 at 12:24 pm

  What version of QuickTime player do you have installed?
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  Sad Sad

  March 31, 2013 at 12:29 pm

  Version of QT is: 7.7.1
  I can’t play that footage in QT too. I’ve just displayed film inspector to show you codec details.
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  Mike Kujbida

  March 31, 2013 at 12:47 pm

  [sad sad] “I can’t play that footage in QT too.”

  That’s not a good sign.
  Do you have a small clip that you can upload to a site such as Dropbox for us to try on our systems with a different QT version?
  If you access to a Mac, render it out in ProRes and import that into Vegas.
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  John Rofrano

  March 31, 2013 at 1:37 pm

  [Mike Kujbida] “If you access to a Mac, render it out in ProRes and import that into Vegas.”

  Yea, my guess is that Vegas isn’t expecting XDCAM HD422 to be in it’s native container and not QuickTime. Either get the native source files from the camera or convert to ProRes422 on the Mac.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Sad Sad

  April 1, 2013 at 12:20 pm

  Thanks for reply, but it’s not good idea to transcode footage to prores, because I’ve got 300GB and I haven’t enough time to do that. I thought, I could download plugin or sth like this and I’ll be able to edit this footage. Meybe You’ve got some ideas with Premiere Pro CS.5/CS.6 or Avid Media Composer 4? I got this software too.
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  Mike Kujbida

  April 1, 2013 at 12:24 pm

  I personally don’t use Premier Pro or Avid so all I can suggest is that you try it and see if it works. If it does, great. If not, then you have no choice but to convert the files to Pro Res.
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  John Rofrano

  April 1, 2013 at 6:36 pm

  Your other option is to edit the footage on a Mac. If you’re going to capture on a Mac, then you need to either be prepared to edit on a Mac, or capture to a format that a PC can use. Otherwise you’ll be transcoding after the fact to make it work on a PC.

  If you plan to edit on a PC it is always best to capture on a PC.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com

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