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FCP and Sony Vegas 7 – Friends or Foes?
Hello!
I’m looking to transfer some HDCam footage into a codec that a Sony Vegas 7 editor can use. Unfortunately he doesn’t have a capture card or an HDCam deck. I do have a friend who is willing to do it but he can only capture using Final Cut Pro. I want him to capture the footage onto an external drive into a DVCPro HD codec. Does anyone know if Vegas can read a quicktime file created in FCP in this codec? Do Vegas and FCP play nice?
Tim
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8 Replies
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Well, the DVCPRO HD codec, if you captured natively via firewire, only works on systems with FCP installed. So since the PC with Vegas won’t, it can’t see it.
For this it is a wise investment to buy the Sheer Codecs from BitJazz.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Vegas is better with avi, but can also handle mov. Don not use DVCproHD or the new Prores. Cineform now has a beta version for Mac. That might work good for your Vegas editing. Many people use Cineform for Vegas on a PC.
Gary
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Raylight DECODER is a DVCPROHD decoder for quicktime and it
will allow you to playback and edit DVCPROHD quicktimes
in Vegas. See https://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoderIt was designed to work with quicktimes created in Final Cut Pro
and also works with quicktimes created by DVRack (OnLocation)
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for free, you can download mac & pc versions of the black magic uncompressed codecs.
I use 10-bit SD uncompressed just to output .wmv files and from Vegas 4!
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You can also render PhotoJPEG QT’s at 100% quality and read them in Vegas. You will need fast hard drives as Vegas doesn’t like QT’s too much. Once in Vegas you may want to convert the files into a Vegas friendly codec like the Sony YUV or XDCAM HD codec.
Lance
Lance Bachelder
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Only Raylight can do it without recompression
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[Marcus van Bavel] “Only Raylight can do it without recompression
and it has real time playback”8 or 10-bit Uncompressed is lossless and plays in realtime.
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Thanks Guys,
Your advice made me realize there is no easy solution. I ended up having a friend just dub the tapes to DVCam directly from a HDCam deck. Can’t wait for the 2/3″ XDCam HD camera. That’ll make everything easier.
Tim
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