Vegas 9, Canon 5D MkII MOVs, splitting and rendering workflow?

[Robert St-onge]

Michael,

I have tried MP4Cam2AVI to converts the files to .AVI in order to import them into Vegas 9, but all I get is the audio. Am i mssing somthing?

Thanks,

Robert

[Michael Tobin]

I don’t know why, but it will not work with Vegas 9. I was using it with 8.0. I discovered this a few weeks ago when I upgraded to 9. The other problem I ran into was crashes when rendering. It didn’t happen all of the time, but often enough that I gave up and bought the Ciniforms Neo Scene product for $129 which trans-codes into an intermediate format before you import the video into Vegas. If you find something better please post back.

Goodluck!
Mike

[Robert St-onge]

Thanks Michael!

I don’t own a 5D, so basically I am using some sample footage here and there and looking into buying a 7D.

So what I have used so far is MpegStreamclip and convert the footage to MotionJpeg. At best setting, it makes a huge file, but looks has good as the original. At 50%, still as good but only slightly darker.
Plays ok in Vegas 9.

Also tried to convert to .mxf from Vegas 9, looks very good, only concern is that I don’t have a lot of footage under hand, so I am wondering if I stick an hour of 7D video on the timeline, will Vegas crash? Would there also be a script that would permit to batch convert from Vegas?

Robert

[Paulo Santos]

Hi Michael, I tried your solution ( mp4cam2avi) it actually looks like the best way to go, but my avi file plays back in slow motion, Do you have any idea why ?

[Tom Graves]

[John Rofrano] “CineForm is an AVI codec within Vegas so you have to:
Select Video for Windows (*.avi) as the type
Then start by selecting the HD 1080-60i YUV template.
Press the Custom… button
On the Video tab change the Frame size: to HDV 1080 (1,440×1,080)
Change the Pixel aspect ratio: to 1.3333
Change the Video format: to CineForm HD Codec 2.1
Change the template name to “HDV 1080-60i CineForm” and press the Save icon (diskette)
Press OK to continue”

Thanks, this was really helpful in finding the right render options for 5D footage in Vegas!

I ended up using 1280×720 with a 1.000 pixel aspect ratio and it seemed to produce results that matched the original video aspect ratio, since using 1440×1080 gave me elongated results