.mov file import… audio but no video!

[Gilles Gagnon]

Sure Douglas, I’ll upload one up later this aft when I’m back in the office,

Thanks,

Gilles

[John Rofrano]

[Gilles Gagnon] “It seems silly that I have a .mov file which will play with VLC player but will not import video in Vegas.”

It seems just as silly to take perfectly good native camera footage and muck it up with FCP’s capture and QuickTime codecs and place in it a MOV file. 😉

The problem is that Vegas Pro… a PC program… is expecting HDV in it’s native MPEG2 container where it originated. It is not expecting someone to place HDV in a QuickTime container which is an extremely unnatural act on a PC.

You should never allow an FCP editor to capture footage that you plan to edit on a PC because FCP is going to convert the native footage into a format that FCP wants to see, but not necessarily one that a PC NLE can handle.

~jr

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[Gilles Gagnon]

Thanks John,

I understand. I was given the .mov file. since this method is not working, I’m going to plan B. Get the original tape and footage and bring it into Vegas directly.

problem is, it’s not importing. See new thread i’ve started.

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/927074

what could I be doing wrong?

I’ve tried importing twice, no luck. As mentioned, the preview screen in the “Capture” window remains blue. The capture app does see the camera and does control it but when I click the “start capture” button, camera plays, screen remains blue and sessions are not imported into clips and I can’t find any signs of an .m2t file(s).

Not sure if this is a hint but the “start capture” button doesn’t appear “depressed” when “capturing”.

Any ideas?

Gilles

Gilles