• VEGAS Pro

  Converting DV Quicktimes

  Posted by Jonathan Capra on May 18, 2005 at 8:35 pm

  I have some DV-encoded Quicktime files that I created on FinalCut Pro. I dunno if this will factor into the problem, but these were created straight from log and capture in FCP (I didn’t do any export ala Quicktime Conversion)). I just renamed them to have .mov on the end of the filenames before I brought them home to my PC.

  When I tried to convert them to DV-encoded AVI files using SonicFoundry BatchConverter, the audio is out of sync. Then I tried doing the export in QuicktimePro (on the PC) using the same settings I use when I do a Quicktime Conversion in FCP on the Mac (DV/DVCpro+48khz/stereo/16-bit), but then when I try to load it into SFVidCap’s Print-to-Tape feature, these files have no audio when piped to my firewire camera.

  Other files I have made before with the same specs (but were made into AVIs on the Mac, not the PC) seem to work fine. Funny that the AVIs created on the PC in Quicktime export does indeed have audio in them and it’s in sync because WindowsMediaPlayer plays them fine with sound.. So does Vegas..

  Any thing obvious in my process this time around that should make Print-to-Tape ignore the audio? Or make BatchCapture make the audio out of sync?

  Jonathan Capra replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Don Donatello

  May 18, 2005 at 10:15 pm

  can you drop the files captured in FCP into vegas TL (don’t do anything)
  what extension does FCP give the files?

  when i capture ( PC) using DV rack i have the choice to have either avi or mov extension =same data only a different header is written to the file … Vegas has no problem with these mov/qt files …
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  Jonathan Capra

  May 21, 2005 at 3:47 pm

  OK very weird.. I just manually brought the DV-encoded MOV files (created by FCP) onto a timeline in Vegas and manually exported a DV-AVI. The result worked fine in SFcapture’s Print-to-Tape function (sound and all).

  Just very strange to me that any DV-MOV file converted to DV-AVI (either by FCP on the Mac or BatchConverter on PC) has no sound when played back by SFcapture/P2T, but *does* have sound when played back by any application.

  This makes me wonder how many files of projects I have archived on DVD-R now that may have the same issue, since at the time I burned them I was using them for output to a DVD build and never thought to try them with Print-to-Tape.

  Is this some sort of header issue in the files that makes SFcapture ignore certain files’ audio?

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