Capturing footage from Sony’s 7U FC Card into Vegas Pro 8

[Mark Dalzell]

Can anyone help out with an answer please?

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

It’s a CF card. Why would you use Firewire? it’s realtime in that event. Yes, you *can* but the question is “Why would you?” You can edit straight off the CF card if you want, but the best method is to Xfer the card. It’s very fast with a UDMA CF card.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Mark Dalzell]

Douglas,

Thanks for helping out. I’m not familar with this camera. It’s one being used by the CSN film dept. The professor for the class suggested I check with to see how the best way was to import the data on the CF card. I thought he said something about removing the card/holder from the camera and importing it directly into the PC/Vegas via firewire.

Please excues my ignorance but how’s the best way to import data from the CF card into my PC/Vegas Pro 8?

Thanks very much for your assistance.

Regards.

Mark

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Please excues my ignorance but how’s the best way to import data from the CF card into my PC/Vegas Pro 8?
With a $10.00 CF card reader that you can pick up in any grocery store.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Mark Dalzell]

Geezzz. Don’t I feel dumb….

Thanks for taking time to help me out Douglas.

Mark

By the way, which grocery store do you recommend?
Just kidding….

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

No need to feel dumb, I guess I could have worded that differently.
Once the m2t data is on the card, it’s just a CF card that is no different from any USB drive, MSPD, or thumbdrive. It’s a data transfer. Very fast, very easy.
Card readers are fairly ubiquitous, I have a bunch that were tradeshow swag…they’re just plain cheap.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Mark Dalzell]

Thanks Douglas,

No offense taken. I appreciate you taking time to help me out.
I guess I’ll p/u a multi version reader so I covered size wise.

Best.

Mark

[Mark Dalzell]

Douglas,

One last question if you don’t mind. Does Vegas have the necessary
codec to import the data from the CF card? I would assume it does considering it’s coming from a Sony camera. Just wanted to make sure
I don’t need to get a third party codec or whatever.

Thanks again.

Mark

[Douglas Spotted eagle]

Every NLE on the planet does read HDV natively (including Vegas), excepting one. IMO, that’s a very messed up way to do things. Makes for interoperability hassles too.
Yes…Vegas reads the data NATIVELY off the card.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASST

Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
Aerial Camera/Instructor

[Mark Dalzell]

Thanks for clarifying and your time Douglas.

Best.

Mark Dalzell