sony vegas and HVX200

[Chris Young]

It’s called ‘Raylight’ from DV Film. Allows P2 MXF files to be edited in Vegas. Have a good readup at:

https://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/index.htm

Chris Young
CYV Productions
Sydney

[Dr. Dropout]

3 HVX200 options (at least- there may be others) for Vegas users are available.

check these sites for details:

http://www.DVFILM.com
http://www.Cineform.com
http://www.seriousmagic.com

[Erik Gingles]

Thanks very much. I’ll check those out. But do you know of anyone who has actually done it? Unfortunately things on paper don’t always work out as they say.

[Barry Green]

Yes it can work, after a fashion. But it’s limited.

Raylight does an excellent job, it preserves 100% of the original file quality. It just isn’t all that fast, is all. When a base Mac can handle two or three streams of HD in realtime, including transitions, it’s harder to justify getting 15fps on one stream in Vegas.

You can do it, there’s just better options out there.

For example, you can translate the MXF files from the HVX into .AVI files using Raylight, which lets you work on them in Vegas. I’ve done this many times (I’m a happy registered Raylight owner). And you can limp along in Vegas this way. But what if you want to output back to the card? Can’t do it. What if you want to do live streaming capture direct to the computer? Can’t do it.

EDIUS lets you do everything that P2 allows. EDIUS is full native HD editing; on the same system that delivers about 10-11fps in Vegas, I can easily have full realtime performance in EDIUS. EDIUS directly imports the MXF files, so there’s no lengthy transcoding process. EDIUS supports outputting files back to the cards. EDIUS supports live firewire capture.

So I’m not trying to talk you out of trying Vegas; when I’m doing a simple test or something I prefer using Vegas because I just really, really like the program, and for small stuff using Raylight and converting and importing to Vegas is fine. It’s just really limited, as compared to what a true native editing platform could do.

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[Erik Gingles]

Thanks very much for the info. though it’s not what I was hoping to hear. I’ve been using Vegas solid now for about three years and I really don’t want to switch to something else. So I guess that’s the rub. Do I really need to go to HD and forfeit Vegas, or wait a year or so and see what else comes along?

Thanks again.