Sony vegas 12 will not support MOV files

[John Rofrano]

[Jim Buttery] “Format: Apple ProRes 422”

It’s definitely not a codec problem because Vegas Pro 12.0 supports Apple ProRes 422. So when you say “Vegas will not support MOV files” what exactly do you mean? You drop the file on the Vegas Pro timeline and what happens next? (e.g., you get the NOT symbol? you get audio with no video?, ???)

~jr

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http://www.vasst.com

[Jim Buttery]

Apologies from a newbie.

When I open the file in Vegas I get 3 black rectangles. The one on the timeline has icons in it for Event FX and Event Pan/Crop. I do still have one laptop that still works the .mov file ok. Maybe I should use something like Process Explorer do see what’s loading?
It does open ok in QuickTime and VLC, but not in Windows 7 Media Player and others.

[Jim Buttery]

At this point, despite my curiosity, I may try to migrate the Vegas 12 suite (apps and licenses) to my son’s laptop and hope he doesn’t move out;)

[John Rofrano]

[Jim Buttery] “…and hope he doesn’t move out;)”

Usually if you feed them 3 meals a day and don’t badger them about getting a job, they stick around for quite a while. lol ;-D

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Jim Buttery]

Thanks for the laugh John. He buys his own garbage food and has a job that can’t be outsourced.

I wish I could drill down and see what’s happening. It does load the file but it renders as blank. The thing is I’m getting 120 reels of 8mm film digitized to this format and don’t wish to do any conversions.

[John Rofrano]

[Jim Buttery] “… and has a job that can’t be outsourced.”

Actually, that was the advice I gave my children; “find a job that can’t be outsourced”. Any job you can do from “home” can be done from India or China. Get a job that you actually have to show up for in the morning. 😉

[Jim Buttery] “It does load the file but it renders as blank.”

If you’d like to send me a small clip via DropBox or something I’d be happy to look at it for you on both my PC and my Mac. (BTW, if you don’t have DropBox and sign up from that link, both you and I get an extra 500MB of storage free).

[Jim Buttery] “The thing is I’m getting 120 reels of 8mm film digitized to this format and don’t wish to do any conversions.”

If you work on a PC, you should NOT be paying for people to give you QuickTime files. QuickTime is the native format for Mac’s. if you don’t have a Mac, you want them to give you AVI files for the PC.

You know, ProRes 422 has several variations (HQ, LT, Proxy). It may be that the one they gave you is not one that Vegas supports but works on Macs?

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Jim Buttery]

I put 2 samples in Dropbox.

These files do load and display on another laptop.

[Mike Kujbida]

Jim, you forgot to give us the Dropbox link.
FYI, I have no problems importing ProRes files on my machine using QT player 7.7.1

[Jim Buttery]

Everything seems to play in QT 7.7.4.

I don’t see how to provide a link to
https://www.dropbox.com/home

email is jtbuttery@verizon.net
pw is 9Rockicki

[Mike Kujbida]

If the files are in a folder, right click on the Share link icon at the far right, select Share link, click Get link (copies it to your clipboard) and paste it here.
If they’re individual files, go the folder where they reside, right click on the file name, select Copy public link and copy and paste the link that comes up on here.