Hdv tapes Loaded using mac and final cut pro?

[Steve Rhoden]

Vegas works well with basically all quicktime files…and now
there is even a free ProRes decoder if you have files encoded
in that quicktime format coming from Final Cut Pro.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Creative Arts Director and Film Maker.
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[Greg Lewolt]

Thanks for all your help Steve!

Greg

[David Shirey]

Well it’s probably a little late to mention this, but for anyone searching the archives for digitizing on FinalCut Pro and transferring to Vegas, maybe this post will be useful.

If you’re digitizing in FCP on a mac with an external drive, you need to be aware for what format the drive is. Normally when you buy a drive from a store it’ll come as FAT32 so they can advertise it as being compatible with both mac and pc’s. That’s nice and all but the FAT32 format is a little out of date, and one problem you might run into with video is it’s inability to have a file over 4GB. Ideally if you’re editing in Windows you want to have the drive formatted for NTFS. Mac OSX isn’t going to be able to read or write to NTFS drives out of the box, but there is a free application that will allow them to do so. It can be downloaded here: https://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

[Greg Lewolt]

first place I went to had a panasonic 200 and would not play the sony format HDV

Second place had final cut pro and could not write to my external drive formatted to pc,

finally borrowed a cheap sony camera and captureed to my PC no problem, my own camera had the firewire board shorted out due to the firewire ground design flaw. don’t plug and unplug your I link with the computer or camera on. The camera menu directs you to unplug the ilink when changing menu options….

thanks for the link Might be a great work-around for portable drives working between Mac and PC

Greg