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Apple ProRes 422 Editing
Hello gentle editor people…
confessions first up… I am a newbie to both FCP and Vegas, but need to seriously consider investing in a digital editor. I am veering towards Vegas primarily because I have PC infrastructure galore and don’t want to spend money on a Mac just to buy FCP.
Having said that, the chap I am working with on video projects edits with FCP on an iMAC. Generally, our projects are separate, however there will be times when he is Camera on one of my projects, will download the material and supply it on hard disk.
It is likely to be in whatever format FCP6 captures in – most likely prores 422.
My question is, can I edit these files under Vegas on Windows?
Additionally, what workflow do we have to put in place between the FCP site and my site to allow editing to be possible. i.e. what capture settings would we have to use on FCP to allow the material to be usable/editable on vegas/windows?
many thanks for any help with this…
cheers,
Mark Edwards.
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4 Replies
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Raylight makes a plug-in.
https://dvfilm.com/raylight/EncoderPro/index.htm
to open the final cut .mov dvcpro hd files in Vegas, bring them into the timeline then you have to go to event pan/crop and hit “no” on maintain aspect ratio. For some reason quicktime does not embed the aspect ratio in the file, or vegas can’t read it. Not sure. I usually change the first clip in pan/crop and then copy and paste attributes to all the rest of the clips on the timeline before editing. Probrably an easier way but that is how I do it. I have not gone back to final cut yet.
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This might be better asked on the FCP forum since FCP is very restricted in what formats it can edit. Quicktime 7.5 for Windows has added the ProRes422 codec so you will be able to edit the files from FCP in Vegas but, unfortunately, Apple doesn’t allow you to encode using that codec (it’s read-only) so your challenge is what to render your files to so that FCP can read them. That’s why I say ask on the FCP forum.
Maybe the CineForm codec would work since they have NeoHD for both the PC and Mac?
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com -
https://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder/index.htm
a cheaper solution, this is what i use. the first one was a misprint. -
Vegas will edit ProRes clips …1920×1080 HD (HQ) clips play back in RT in Vegas Preview 1/2 size ( quad core 6600 )
few weeks ago i was given some ProRes clips that would NOT open in vegas ..based on Vegas explorer it didn’t know the spec’s on the video stream but had the audio as 16bit/48k then stated 24bit big ? = audio would open but no video … those clips were captured from HDcam deck to AJA i/o HD (i was told there are many -many different capture choices in AJA menu – do not know what they choose to capture these clips) … since then i have received more clips captured using the AJA and they work ( they do not have the 24bit in audio spec’s).
if you get clips on a Mac formatted drive you’ll need to get software for your PC to read the disk …
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