Need to Import Files Formated for Final Cut to Sony Vegas Pro 13

[Norman Black]

[Aaron Star] “Peoples hatred of CLI is amazing.”

Well, FFMPEG is a PITA to use so I understand that, but it can do just about anything and most of it’s encoders are actually better than most commercial options.

One thing ffmpeg has a problem with is RGB to YUV conversions which I found out about when I started using ffmpeg to frameserve from Vegas. It was easier to use Avisynth commands than try and figure out how to make ffmpeg do it right.

I use ffmpeg to frameserve from Vegas for encoding.

Here is an example to x264

@echo off

title encode crf23

cd d:\renders
d:

REM output the AviSynth commands
echo AviSource("server.avi") > server.avs
echo ConvertToYUY2(matrix="rec709") >> server.avs
REM echo ConvertToYUY2(matrix="PC.709") >> server.avs

c:\systools\ffmpeg32\bin\ffmpeg.exe -i server.avs -c:v libx264 -preset medium -profile:v high -me_method umh -crf 23 -colorspace bt709 -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc bt709 -
pix_fmt yuv420p -bufsize 40M -maxrate 40M -c:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2 -chunk_size 64K output.mp4

pause

del server.avs


I have one that encodes ProRes from Vegas as well.

I have other standalone scripts which combine the mono channels in XDCAM and XAVC MXF files so Handbrake can encode them. Handbrake cannot handle the multiple mono channels of MXF.

Cliptoolz Convert is free and while no longer developed is probably the best utility to easily convert some camera format to edit formats like DNxHD, XDCAM and ProRes. Sadly no XAVC Intra, but that came after development stopped.