Editing NXCAM footage woes

[John Lenihan]

Hi Nigel,

I use vegas 9.0 e 32 bit on windows xp pro and the mpeg loads into the timeline quickly and painlessly.

You don’t need neoscene. If three machines cause it, I would look at the file itself?

Do you know what settings the camera was on when it was recorded?

How did they get the mpeg from camera to computer?

Do the mpeg files play standalone in windows media player?

John

John Lenihan

LeniCam Video Productions
https://www.lenicam.com

[Nigel O’neill]

John

I get the operator/owner to join this forum to respond. The camera is a recent acquisition. The workaround we have been using is to drop the clips on the time line and then render straight out to DV WS AVI. The output for the client is in SD.

Nigel

Intel i920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 9 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1

[William Mims]

Regarding the Vegas Pro 9e. I was having the same problem with footage that was transferred from old BetaCam SP SD footage. As I pulled the clips down to the time line it would crash. I went to Creative Cow and surfed for answers. One angry guy said Sony told him it was his anti-virus program and he remarked that’s what Sony always says.
Well, I tried shutting my anti-virus down before opening Vegas, once I did that I have not had the problem again.
Just a thought, try it and see if that is the source of your problem.

Mims

[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks William

One of the three machines we tried it on was an i7 920 using both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Vegas. I do have antivirus running, but it has never been an issue with my other AVCHD footage. The hanging is symptomatic of Vegas not handling the footage properly.

I agree with John in that I think it is something to do with the camera set up, plus NXCAM being new (Feb 2010) is probably indicative of a CODEC issue. I have installed CODEC packs, but I am pretty sure the camera operator has not, but we are having the same problems.

I’ll try and get him to register and respond to John’s original post.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Intel i920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 9 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1

[Adrian Combes]

Hi
just finished a concert edit with half the footage shot on nx5 the other half on my sx and had similar problems , only way i could get footage to work was to reclip in camera down to smaller than 5 minute clips. and still a few would not run correctly ay all which i suspect was an sd card or writing to card fault. personally I think the NX5 is crap, sorry I bought one apart from the above issues even when working its impossible to get really sharp .
anyway try the smaller clip option see how that goes.

cheers

[Nigel O’neill]

Thanks Adrian for the tip, although I might not pass on the comments to the owner/operator about the NX5 being cr*p :-). Personally, I still use the Z1P and FX1 tape based cameras, and get great results. I dabbled with AVCHD, but it hammers Sony Vegas Pro 9 unless you create an intermediary file.

Intel i920, 12GB RAM, ASUS P6T, Vegas Pro 9 (X64), Vista x64 Ultimate, Vegas Production Assistant 1.0, VASST Ultimate S 4.1