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hdv material from final cut pro
a cameraman provided me with some hdv material that he captured and pre-edited in fcp. They are some quicktime (mov) files that he put onto a dvd.
Vegas cannot read them, Womble does show them, but if I convert them in Womble to mpg Vegas still cannot read them. Quicktime pro cannot read them either(!)Does anyone know how to exchange HDV material between Vegas and FCP?
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4 Replies
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Do you have the full version of Quicktime installed?
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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I have quicktime player pro 7.1
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Have you considered having the cameraman do a “print to tape” of what he’s edited so far and then dumping it back into Vegas?
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thanks, I considered that and that is probably the path we’ll have to go.
In this case it means that every time I want to exchange something I have to find/rent a hdv deck or camera. But that is not ideal either because I had to do color correction on a fcp hdv project, so preferred to have a similar timeline with trimmed clips from fcp (so I wouldn’t have problems colorcorrecting transitions).
Here’s the misery:
final cut needed a plugin to do AAF export, the AAF didn’t contain any media, I did trimmed media export with fcp’s mediamanager and it gave me in some cases the wrong clips (doesn’t read hdv-timecode well), and the clips that were the right portions didn’t open in Vegas (or VLC), or even in the PC version of Quicktime itself, only in Womble. They opened in Vegas only after I converted the stream in Womble to Program stream. Than they did play in Vegas, but very badly. It should be just an mpeg2 file?It seems to me outrageous that after all these years media and projects still can’t be exchanged properly between NLE’s and platforms.
Found a thread with the same problem and no solution either, on the Sony forum: https://www.sonymediasoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=482066
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