HVX200/.mov/Vegas 9 headache!

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HVX200/.mov/Vegas 9 headache!

Posted by Mark Maltby on November 24, 2009 at 1:00 am

Hi there!

I’m new to this forum but have been using Sony Vegas for sometime now.

I am trying to edit some rushes that were shot on a Panasonic HVX 200.

Now, ordinarily the rushes would have been captured onto a P2 card and, judging by other posts on this forum, be imported into Vegas using the Raylight plug in.

However, because this was a student project, and we could not afford a P2 card, the footage was captured into a Macbook Pro directly from the camera during the shoot, using the FCP capture tool.

This means the files are now in .MOV format.

In the past, files captured with FCP and then moved to Vegas have flown in with only the most minimal of problems (lagging preview etc…) However, these have always been shot as DVPAL as opposed to DVC PRO-P2.

I have pulled the files from the Macbook and put them onto the PC with Vegas installed, but, as I expected, they didn’t work correctly. I only get the sound and no video when I try and drop them onto the Vegas Pro 9 timeline.

I downloaded the demo version of Raylight, but this ignored the files as they were Quicktime and not P2.

Even QT player on the PC will only play the audio. VLC is not interested either. (VLC states the file type is dvh5).

Any help would be greatly appreciated as at the moment I am having to export each shot from FCP as a normal .MOV file and then import tat into Vegas. As there are over 200 shots, this is quite time consuming, not to mention complicated!

Many thanks in advance

Mark.

Mark Maltby replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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Douglas Spotted eagle
November 24, 2009 at 5:05 am

Once FCP screws up the file, it’s a bear to get anything to read it.
Two options;
A-convert the files to ProRes and install the ProRes codec on your Windows machine.
B-Convert the files to .mxf format, you’ll need the free Sony plug for FCP from https://www.sony.com/xdcam
And then you’ll be stylin.
IMO, .mxf is the best format to use for conversion.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Mark Maltby
November 24, 2009 at 4:49 pm

Thank you so much for your quick response.

Will this converter be able to convert the rushes as an entire batch ready for me to edit them in Vegas, or will I need to do a drop them all onto the timeline and export them out of FCP as .MXF/
ProRes?

Regards,

Mark.

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