Vegas to FCP

[Walter Biscardi]

[RandallD] “I want to render with as little compression as possible so I guess AVI works here but can the client work easily with AVI on his system?”

No, FCP does not work with AVI.

[RandallD] “I D/L QT 7 but there does not seem to be a way to render uncompressed to some sort of MOV file — everything gets “encoded” a la WMV.”

Did you purchase the Quicktime Pro License? it’s $30 and should allow you to export in regular Quicktime formats. Check that before you purchase, but that’s what it does on the Mac side, unlocks Quicktime Exports.

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[Eric Peterson]

On thursday I imported avi files exported from PPro as DV/NTSC into FCP 5.0.4 G5 DP 2.7 and Decklink card. Set the timeline to DV in FCP and the files played without rendering. Give it a try and see if it works for you.

[Randalld]

Thanks for the responses.

I almost purchased QT Pro but there seemed to be a higher-than-usual number of unhappy customers reporting in on the Apple site. Kind of made me gun shy. I do believe that these were mostly Windows users having issues.

Then I found out that it apparently won’t work as a plug-in in Vegas (or something) so I’d have to go through two steps instead of just rendering from the timeline. That’s not going to work.

I’ll see if I can send the client an AVI on hard drive.

Thanks again 🙂

[George Loch]

You can export to QT from Vegas but, perhaps not from version 4. MAybe it’s a good incentive to upgrade to 7 🙂

However, I have also had success in dropping DV AVIs on the timeline in FCP so you could try that as well.

-gl

[Jerry Hofmann]

FCP will definately work with AVI’s. It’s wmf’s walter must have been thinking about… that won’t work in FCP… but the AVI will… just use the same compression you’ve been using in Vegas. DV, right?

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[Randalld]

Okay, great guys! Thanks for all the help.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year to everyone!

[Rene Hazekamp]

Ha Rendall

Sending a harddrive might also give you trouble, cause windows comps and macs have their harddrives
formatted differently, so best thing is to burn disks or to bring a laptop and transfer through ethernet

Ren

[Sean Oneil]

[gineric1] “On thursday I imported avi files exported from PPro as DV/NTSC into FCP 5.0.4 G5 DP 2.7 and Decklink card. Set the timeline to DV in FCP and the files played without rendering.”

That’s very surprising and interesting. Good to know. Thanks.

Sean