Vegas 8 canon 5d no video

[John Rofrano]

2gig processor, 1gig ram

Your PC is woefully inadequate for working with HD. At minimum you should have a Dual Core 2.8Ghz with at least 2GB of RAM.

You could try VASST GearShift. It will convert your footage to DV Widescreen proxies and allow you to edit with proxies and then swap them out for the HD source when you are ready to render. The trial is good for 15 days so see if you like it before you buy it.

(Disclaimer: I work at VASST and yes, this i my product.) 😉

~jr

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

[Greg Lewolt]

Thanks,

I have been through so many conversion programs, It’s amazing.

some do not have the right frame size, some are way too slow,

found that I have to convert to a small wmv file to get smooth playback in auto preview mode or draft, but have to reduce the frame size to 960×540

I have never conformed back to an orignial file.
what are the settings and steps?

and what are the render settings for youtube hd?
so most people can play the file…

thanks for your help

Greg

[Greg Lewolt]

Bought Gearshift. works fantastic in the vegas 9 trial, but no video displays in vegas 8,

when I convert the canon 5d files to windows media they will show up in the timeline and play in Vegas 8.

as clips play in vegas 9 with the same old computer, its not a hardware issue

should I remove and re-install sony 8, or remove quicktime 7 and replace it with an older virsion? I belive I read one of your posts where you said the new quicktime did not work in vegas 8, but what old version should I download?

[John Rofrano]

should I remove and re-install sony 8, or remove quicktime 7 and replace it with an older virsion? I belive I read one of your posts where you said the new quicktime did not work in vegas 8, but what old version should I download?

You need to backlevel Quicktime to version 7.6.4 or earlier for MOV files to work in Vegas Pro 8.0.

You can find earlier versions of Quicktime on the AVID site.

~jr

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

[Greg Lewolt]

Update,

This is interesting:

the test clip I converted using gearshift in the trial version of vegas 9

Loads and plays great in vegas 8, shifts back to hd uncompresed and plays.

don’t know what is going on here,

Times are too hard to buy all new software and computers

[John Rofrano]

I have never conformed back to an orignial file.what are the settings and steps?

GearShift will do this for you. Otherwise it’s very tedious to replace the files on-by-one in the project media pool.

and what are the render settings for youtube hd? so most people can play the file…

If you have Vegas Pro 9.0 there are YouTube settings under the Sony AVC encoder. They all start with “Internet xxx”. If you don’t have Vegas Pro 9.0, use the Sony AVC encoder at 1280×720-30p.

~jr

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

[Greg Lewolt]

John,

I removed quiktime 7.6.6 and downloaded and installed Quicktime version 7.6.4.

Now clips load and convert using Gearshift and play exactly the same as in the trial version of Vegas 9 on my computer.

What threw me, was before I posted this thread, I removed quicktime and installed quicktime version 6.?.? (don’t remember the exact version) with no luck

so quicktime version 7.6.4 restored Vegas 8 to work with canon 5d mk 11 files and Gearshift

You saved my butt on this, amazing!

so impressed how Gearshift conforms back to the orignial hd files with just a click, no time to do it, works instantly

wonderful

thanks so much!

Greg

[John Rofrano]

Greg, I’m glad you liked GearShift and are happy with the workflow.

~jr

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

[Greg Lewolt]

Made this little video using the gearshift workflow in sony vegas 8

proxy dv widescreen for editing, then shift back to the camera orignial and render. worked perfectly and smoothly. this is a dvd quality render so most people can play it canon 5d mk11 camera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBx6sXDmQFg

[John Rofrano]

Wow, that is one crazy drum kit. The recording looks great.

~jr

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