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Accepting Sony Vegas Files into FCP
I have a client who is dong some editing in Sony Vegas and then delivering the “pieces” to me to put together and finish the project in FCP.
The first attempt at this resulted in poor video quality with a lot of pixelation. What guidelines/parameters should I give my client for their video coming out of Vegas? Or is there something I can do on my end?
I have a similar post in the Vegas forum but as of yet have not come up with a solution.
Thanks,
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Tell him to buy FCP? LOL… (would be best BTW)
But if he can export uncompressed versions of the movies he’s making, surely the loss when transcoded to FCP’s ProRes or whatever will look better. Just makes for very large files.
What was the source material? HDV or?
Might consider EDL’s instead, then you capture in FCP…?
Jerry
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I agree he should just buy FCP.
The source material was HDV shot with a Sony HDR-FX7.
Is there a format I should suggest for the uncompressed version?
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Uncompressed HD is going to be best however it will be a huge file, and I’m unclear if it will actually work in FCP… If it were me, I’d ask for the tapes, and an EDL to import and recapture in FCP…
Jerry
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Clint- Final Cut HDV files have a .mov extension. I believe the Vegas file extension is .m2t. It might be worth a shot to change the file extension to .mov on one of the clips and see if FCP sees it. If it works you could then change all the file extensions on the clips you need. Would save re-digitizing.
HTH,
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