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HDV2 question regarding conversion for Vegas 11 editing
A client just handed me a hard drive with 2 hrs of HD footage that has a .mov extension. Vegas can not see the video portion of the video but plays the audio just fine. GSpot tells me that it is a HDV2 file.
My Quicktime pro player can’t play the file either.
I can import it into ConvertXtoDVD, convert it to standard def DVD, and then import the VOB files using the Vegas DVD import feature. This works fine in Vegas 11, and looks pretty good considering it is down-converted to standard def.
Any way to convert this to a format Vegas can use, and keep it in an HD format?
Larry Brewer
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8 Replies
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You need to find out from your client what kind of camera was used on the shoot.
My guess is that it might be a Panasonic using the P2 format which Vegas will not recognize without a plugin called Raylight from DV Film.
https://dvfilm.com/products.htm -
I believe that the files are actually exports from a FCP system. The cam originals are not available. Maybe this screen capture will help.
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Very strange. I’ve been able to import a lot of different files from FCP users.
Do you have a recent version of QuickTime installed? -
Quicktime PRO 7.2.2 (1680.56)
Remember.. this is a file that my QT won’t play the video but will play the audio. VCL won’t play it, wmp won’t play it.
ConvertXtoDVD works just fine to convert it to a DVD VIDEO_TS file folder and that imports into Vegas 11 just fine. At that point I have a standard def MPG file.
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You need at least QT 7.6.2 to be able to read FCP files.
Newer versions of QT can read Pro Res files. -
Oooops! I misread my QuickTime screen. I have 7.7.2, not 7.2.2. So I’m up to date on Quicktime.
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FCP is unfortunately very capable of rendering out files that Vegas cannot read under any circumstances.
Your best bet is to get your client to go back to the FCP user and have them render it out in a different format that you can read.
As I said, I’ve had no problems reading 1920×1080 Pro-Res files 4:2:2 that came from FCP users. -
These files aren’t 1920×1080 Pro-Res files 4:2:2. The original source of these files is out of the picture, if they weren’t, I wouldn’t have been given the files in the first place.
The best solution seems to be Prism Video File Converter. Convert before I import. Looks clean, runs fast, affordable.
Thanks for the support!
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