Canon 7D footage and Vegas 6

[John Rofrano]

Well… when you thing about it… you bought a bleeding edge 2010 camera and you want to edit it with 2005 software. That’s asking a lot. Vegas Pro 10 handles Canon 7D footage very nicely.

~jr

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[Brian]

You can make it work. Render the timeline to AVI Intermiediate, re import the finished file to the timeline and edit away. I have done it many times with 7d and Vegas 6.

[Brian Jones]

Sounds good, except when I try to drop the footage into the timeline it says file could not be imported…??

[Brian]

Which footage says “cannont be imported”? the native 7d footage or the footage you’ve transcoded to AVI intermediary? Btw, another caveat, the intermediary format supported in Vegas 6 is 720p.

[John Rofrano]

[brian luce] ” Btw, another caveat, the intermediary format supported in Vegas 6 is 720p.”

If you’re referring to CineForm, it supports up to HDV 1440×1080-60i in Vegas 6.

If you can’t load the 7D files I would check your version of QuickTime. Vegas 6 uses QuickTime 6 so newer versions of QuickTime 7 might not work. Try using a version prior to 7.6.2.

~jr

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[Brian Jones]

The native 7d footage wont import. Maybe its time to upgrade to Vegas 10. I understand it works well with the 7d footage…

[Brian]

You will LOVE the improvements in Vegas 10 and the upgrade typically is quite affordable. You can work with AVCHD natively. Make the pain go away. Do the upgrade.

[Al Bergstein]

Get enough ram and go 64 bit while u r at it.

Alf

[Jim Greene]

You can probably import a couple of the 7D files into version 6, but multiple files will crash or hang Vegas up to at least version 8. No doubt, you should upgrade, there are SO many more improvements now over version 6.

I have ver 10 and the files do work well in the editor, but don’t expect miracles, it’s still a tough codec to work with. Your timeline preview will be a little sluggish and the playback in the trimmer is basically useless because it always wants to play at Best quality. But I no longer need to convert everything in Cineform. My projects contain 4 cameras with about 100GB of data and several audio tracks, so I’m happier…just wish version 10 was as stable as version 8.

-Jim.

[Brian]

I never had issue with 7d files crashing vegas 6. Vegas 9? don’t get me started. Since Vegas is windows based, you’ll just have to test it. Nothing ever seems repeatable in Windows, Windows is kind of like snowflakes in that no two versions are ever quite the same.

But from my use, provided you rendered out to Cineform immediately and let those files become your working files, the workflow was totally viable. Your Mileage May F’ing Vary.