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Exporting or Render New Track Qualtiy
Hello All you Vegas Users. 🙂
I am actually a Final Cut user so please forgive me for entering your section of the forums, but I have an urgent question that you are better suited to answer.
My client just picked up VEGAS 9.0d and is going to be sending me footage to edit for SD Broadcast. The client however does not know much about editing and asked me to tell him the best setting for exporting the footage out to me. I do NOT need the edit itself, just the 30sec or 1 min spot.
I know next to nothing about VEGAS and I downlaoded the trial of 9.0 to tink around with it and I feel like I am trying to learn a foreign language after speaking Final Cut for 10 years.
Anyway here is the basics. The footage is shot at HDV 1080i 60i and I would prefer to get it in the same format so I can handle the down convert on my end especially since the footage is green screen.
The final output will be NTSC DV 720×480 for SD Broadcast and I will be doing the edits in Final Cut 7.0.2. If anyone can give me the basics or let me know what other information you need, I would appreciate it. Thank you!
– Jonathan
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3 Replies
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If your going to chromakey the greenscreen footage, you should keep it HDV orconvert it to a lossless or intermediate format, or uncompressed for the key. Keying DV video with it’s 4.1.1 color space is difficult, even with Adobe Ultra Key. I would keep it the same resolution as the original footage all the way to the final render to SD widescreen. The chromakey pluggin in Vegas doesnt have any spill suppression so if you can do your keying in something else, like Keylight or Ultra, you’ll get way better results. Hope this helps, Danny Hays
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He could render it out as a Quicktime Animation mov to give you.
James
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If you can import an MXF file to FCP then have him export as Sony MXF. I’m not sure if FCP needs a plug-in to do this but I thought there was something free from Sony that would do this for XDCAM MXF files. If you want to try this with your trial of Vegas, drop some footage on the timeline and use:
- File | Render As..
- In the Render As window select Sony MXF as the Save As Type
- For the template use HD EX 1920×1080-60i (or something appropreate)
- Click Save to start the render
Then see if you can import this into FCP.
~jr
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