XDCAM HD = unreadable in Vegas?

[John Rofrano]

Yea, I wonder if they would work if they used an industry standard frame rate.

~jr

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[Philippe Gosselin]

Yes I did. I just try it again from the internal drive but still the same results 🙁

[Ken Mitchell]

Does his file show the girls head twice?. I just tried to export it to prores on my mac and it worked the first time..as a single headshot at 2 seconds. All other tries it shows the first headshot as corrupt and the second works… Somehow his files don’t work properly on a Mac under snow leopard in Final Cut.

[Jake Zander]

I was having the same problem, trying to use .mov files from a JVC camera. They were xdcam video wrapped in a quicktime container and wouldn’t play on Windows or open in Vegas.

Then through another forum I found this tool by Convergent Design that simply changes the .MOV container to an .MXF container:
https://www.convergent-design.com/Products/nanoFlash/Downloads.aspx (it’s called “File Converter”).
The files now open in Vegas.

[Mike Kujbida]

[Jake Zander] “Then through another forum I found this tool by Convergent Design that simply changes the .MOV container to an .MXF container:”

Jake, that is a GREAT find.
I shot some footage earlier this year on my JVC HM-750 for a Mac user so I switched the recording format from MP4 to MOV.
Needless to say, I could not read it on any Vegas system I tried.
I’ll definitely give this utility a try when I get back to work next week.