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DVCPRO HD
Does Vegas support DVCPRO HD?
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Vegas4 supported MPEG-2 (not the DVD setting) upto 15Mbps in both program stream and transport stream formats with a 2000×2000 resolution project within the NLE but could upsample higher (circa 8000×8000) on rendering. It did support 80Mbps (?) but in a later patch this was removed, possibly due to the marketing department but it may have been a problematic above 15Mbps. I recall folks enjoying 40Mbps and 80Mbps for pro work.
Now DVCPro HD infers 100Mbps to me…. so in either case Vegas4 doesn’t. Vegas5 probably doesn’t either. However Vegas6 might.
However you may choose to run a lower bitrate proxy file in Vegas and then use an uncompressed HD frame serving app (like TMPGEnc+VFAPI) to deliver into Vegas when you are ready to do your final print. I haven’t tried this myself but this was a valid workflow for SD using MP@ML files.
I’d personally like to use Vegas for both print and video use. Pure speculation, but Vegas6 hopefully adds to the bits per pixel resolution (RGB or YUV), however I doubt that if it doesn’t already it won’t by the time it launches as the 3rd party plug-in dependencies of such an upgrade are apparently quite painful to overcome.
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by support do you mean native support?
guessing – just like any media you would need the codec !
i know you can buy DVCpro50 codec ( main concepts) then Vegas should be able to handle those files OR you get a decklink card and load in over the SDI then it would be in the blackMagic codec ..seems to me that for DVCpro100 it should be the same thru Decklink SDI but you are going to need very large/fast RAID hard drives for the uncompressed clips …
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