Vegas and Final Cut Pro – friends or enemies?

[Seth Estrada]

Yes, they ‘play nice’ in most areas but DVCPRO, in general, is not one of them. DVCPRO HD is not something that Vegas 7e has support for out of the box. (Nobody’s perfect; FCP had horrible HDV support for a painfully long time) But he can use Raylight, a non-free third party tool, to put DVCPRO HD into an ‘AVI wrapper’ and then edit in Vegas. My big questions are what is your final delivery format? And do you need to do heavy color correction/post processing/VFX?
-seth

“Oh be wise, what can I say more?”

[Mike Kujbida]

“Does anyone know if Vegas can read a quicktime file created in FCP in this codec?”

I did a search of “DVCPro HD” on the Sony Vegas forum and came up with the following that may be helpful.
Take a look at the products from DVFilm, specifically Raylight & Raylight Decoder.
Demo versions of each are available.
Good luck with it and please let us know if it works.

[Marcus Van bavel]

[Mike Kujbida] ” did a search of “DVCPro HD” on the Sony Vegas forum and came up with the following that may be helpful.
Take a look at the products from DVFilm, specifically Raylight & Raylight Decoder.
Demo versions of each are available.
Good luck with it and please let us know if it works.”

Correct, Raylight DECODER will allow import and editing of
DVCPROHD quicktimes in Vegas.

For going the other direction, you would need the other
Raylight product, DVFilm Raylight, and export a Raylight
AVI from vegas. This can then be converted into an MXF file with
P2 Maker (a utility included with DVFilm Raylight). The MXF
file is then importable into FCP.

[Tim Gibbons]

Thanks Guys,

Your advice made me realize there is no easy solution. I ended up having a friend just dub the tapes to DVCam directly from a HDCam deck. Can’t wait for the 2/3″ XDCam HD camera. That’ll make everything easier.

Tim