Back to Vegas from FCP

[Greg Barringer]

It works but the menu is simply play movie, not sub menu. I installed a Pioneer BDR-205 in the Mac Pro and that works fine. If you try it buy a BD-RE erasable BD to practice with.

[Greg Barringer]

You can read plenty of threads here about .mov and Quicktime problems with Vegas. Things that used to work no longer do because of QT updates. Apple FCP team just laid off 40 engineers, maybe that has something to do with it, I don’t know. I wish there was a simply answer.

[Ed Mellnik]

its hard to believe there isn’t something else out there for authoring blu-ray.
I am will continue to waist time trying to find something that works with Vegas. Ill let you know if I find something.
thanks
ed

EMA VIDEO
Portland Oregon

[John Rofrano]

its hard to believe there isn’t something else out there for authoring blu-ray.

There are lots of options on a PC (Sony DVD Architect, Adobe Encore, Sonic Scenarist, Ulead Movie Factory, Cyberlink, Nero, etc.) It’s only because you are using a Mac that your options are limited. 😉

I am will continue to waist time trying to find something that works with Vegas.

Apple ProRes 422 works with Vegas. Just make sure you have Quicktime 7.6.4 or earlier on your PC. Sony MXF also works great as an interchange format. I read that there was a plug-in to get FCP to import/export Sony MXF. I’m not sure if your version of FCP is supported but it’s worth looking for an trying.

~jr

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

[Joe Mantaratz]

Alas Apple is once again cutting itself out of the market by wanting to keep everything in house. They just refuse to stop the proprietary nonsense that consumers detest. If it was truly a superior product then they would have a leg to stand on…but that is just not the case. Unless we believe all the market hype.

[Greg Barringer]

I may have a break through in the FCP to DVDA problem.
My former workflow was to export the QT movie using ProRes 422 to a Mac Extended Journaled HD. A short clip would be recognized by DVDA but not a 30 minute movie.

I formatted an external HD to Windows FAT using Mac Disk Utility.
Both the short clip and the 30 minute movie now work in DVDA. I have the latest versions of QT in both Windows and Mac. Only one problem, Vegas 9.0c plays the imported QT movie audio but the video is black. The movie plays fine in Windows QT player.

[Ed Mellnik]

Yes I have read about this Black problem. I am still on Vegas 8c and DVDA5. Now I am having pretty good luck with short clip tests using ProRes 422 also but did not know I was going to have a problem with
my 47 minute program…
Now what I have been doing is bringing in the prores422 into a Vegas Blu-Ray project and rendering as a 12mbs Mpeg file. Then bringing it into to DVDA. IS that your work flow also?

Ed

EMA VIDEO
Portland Oregon
emellnik@emavideo.com

[Greg Barringer]

I’m taking the QT movie directly into DVDA and burning BD. I may add an HD to the Mac Pro and format it NTFS if that’s the answer.

[Mike Kujbida]

“Vegas 9.0c plays the imported QT movie audio but the video is black.”
“I have the latest versions of QT in both Windows and Mac.”

QT 7.6.6 broke the handling of QT files in Vegas – again 🙁
The only solution is to uninstall the new version of QT and install an older version (preferably 7.6.4) instead.
You can find a copy of it on this site

[Joe Mantaratz]

Mike do you think it is a conspiracy? Half joking but I would not put it passed Apple. We march onward anyway.