Kona LHe – what is best capture settings on PC for file destined for edit on a Mac

[John Romein]

Here’s what I found with trial and error….

I use Sony Vegas Pro 12 and that it only captures video…the audio is missing no matter which codec and wrapper I use. I logged a report with Sony and they basically told me that it is a bug that will be fix in some future build.

Machina is the only way I found to capture the footage. Several codec’s work for the PC environment, however only one seems to work if you are subsequently moving the file from a PC to a Mac environment.

Here’s the codecs that work for:
PC environment: 2Vuy, 2vuy, 8bit RBG apple, 8bit RBGA 444, 10bit RGB full B, 10bit RGB log, 10bit RGB smpte A or B, V210, v210
Mac environment: 2vuy

Its too bad that only one codec works for both environments.

I know there are lots of people out there with more knowledge on this topic than I. Please let me know if there is a better way to capture files from Betacam SP or U-matic through the PC installed LHe card.

[James Brooks]

You could use MediaNXS. It supports capturing video and multi channel audio on Windows. To target Mac OS-X, you should use MOV with either a yuv2 (8 bit YCbCr), DVHD or v210 (10 bit YCbCr) codecs. If you also install the optional ffmpeg installer you can capture ProRes as well.