H264 support in Vegas 14

[John Rofrano]

Do you have QuickTime for Windows installed? If not, Vegas Pro 13 and earlier cannot work with the files. Vegas Pro 14 added native support for reading QuickTime files so it doesn’t need to have QuickTime for Windows installed. So yes, Vegas Pro 14’s support for QuickTime is better.

~jr

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[Steve Rhoden]

Yeah, but what happen when you are a Pro editor, and the Television station requires all content
submitted to them be in .mov format or another flavor of the Quicktime format to go on air!
That’s what i’m faced with daily…. So given that particular situation, Quicktime has to be installed
to output all those tasks a broadcast house requires.

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[Jon Muro]

Yes I have QuickTime 7 installed. I can drop most .mov files on Vegas timeline but then I get some that will only show the audio. As a matter of fact the recent files I am referring to won’t play in QuickTime player or MPEG streamclip. But they are fine in premier. What version are you guys running?

thanks
Jon Muro
Absolutely Phenomenal Video

[John Rofrano]

[Steve Rhoden] “Yeah, but what happen when you are a Pro editor, and the Television station requires all content submitted to them be in .mov format or another flavor of the Quicktime format to go on air!”

At some point you have to face the fact that most of the industry professionals are using a Mac and if you want to be compliant you should use one too. This is one of the reason’s I moved to the Mac. I have no problem sending ProRes 422 MOV files to broadcast stations from Final Cut Pro X. It’s a simple matter of using the tool that is compatible with everyone else’s tool. Why fight it? This has nothing to do with Vegas Pro being Pro or not. It’s about collaborating with other professionals using compatible tools and formats.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[Jon Muro] “Yes I have QuickTime 7 installed. I can drop most .mov files on Vegas timeline but then I get some that will only show the audio. “

What codec does the QuickTime file contain? I believe that Vegas Pro (any version) cannot display ProRes 4444 no matter what you do.

Open the file with QuickTime Player and use the Inspector Windows (Ctrl+I) to see what video codec it’s using. If it’s ProRes 4444 you are out of luck.

Let’s us know what it uses.

~jr

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[Jon Muro]

QuickTime 7 will not play it. Premier identifies it as a mp4 but I don’t see any other information other than hd 1920×1080 29.97.

thanks
Jon Muro
Absolutely Phenomenal Video

[John Rofrano]

[Jon Muro] “QuickTime 7 will not play it. “

Since Vegas Pro 13 and earlier use QuickTime, there is no way that Vegas Pro can play it if QuickTime can’t play it.

I would download the trial of Vegas Pro 14 and see if it fixes your problem.

If you want to post a clip to DropBox or something, I’d be happy to see if it plays in Vegas Pro 14 for you.

~jr

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[Francois Blawat]

John,

I was looking and came across this file that Apple seems to have removed for Windows. I found it via the waybackmachine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160118025707/https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2?locale=en_US

Would this work with Vegas users if they can find the installer? I found this reference from SCS: https://www.custcenter.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5032/~/does-vegas-pro-work-with-apple-prores-files%3F

I’m not sure if this would allow the ProRes 422 MOV files/

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FixitMad

[John Rofrano]

That link doesn’t work for me but if you are talking about the separate ProRes installer, it was removed because it got included into the regular QuickTime for Windows installer so it’s no longer needed. That ProRes installer only gave you the ability to read ProRes. If you install the latest QuickTime for Windows you will have everything that was released for Windows by Apple including the ability to read ProRes formats up to the time that it was discontinued.

~jr

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[Jon Muro]

Thanks Francois I will definitely have a look at that and let you know.

thanks
Jon Muro
Absolutely Phenomenal Video