Al Bergstein
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I see an earlier post here that Mike states that Vegas 10 projects won’t open in Studio, yet the poster says they have been able to do that. Does anyone know the facts? Can a 10.d project (.veg) open in HD even if it converts the timeline? That’s sort of what we want to do.
If in fact I need to do the simpler stuff on Studio, I suppose I can. It’s pretty cheap software. But would rather stay on pro, for obvious reasons.
Also, how much RAM should my buddy buy for Studio HD? Is the package 64 bit yet? And also, important fact, can he edit canon MXF files off a xf305? I assume studio will handle 4:2:2. Is that a good bet? (maybe I should just download the trial, but figured someone here my have some local knowledge before I waste a bunch of time.)
Alf
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Editing multicamera shoots (4 cams 3 different formats but all HD). sometimes crashes, usually doesn’t. Not doing enormously complex jobs other than multicam. No fx. I suspect that there’s something gets triggered in certain HD based multicam workflows, I’ve been able to repro it when it happens, so I’m pretty confident it’s a Vegas issue…Biggest day to day problem is the inability of the preview to be able to keep up with the timeline. Biggest request I could make is to rewrite the graphics feed to do something like Premiere does with it’s Mercury engine, meaning properly take advantage of the graphics card. But lately it’s been more stable, for reasons that are not exactly intuitive. My computer is stable besides these occasional errors in Vegas. No bluescreens, no problems.
Alf
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Wow, Richard, I’m just home from shooting a days worth of video, logging now, and not quite sure I’m totally clear on your end goal. I’m a bit new to the MXF workflow on FCP, as since I bought the camera, I’ve been editing this footage primarily on Vegas, so I’ll defer to others who might have a ‘best’ workflow rather than my limited knowledge. I have brought stuff in, worked on it and exported it, but in a limited way.
If I understand you correctly, you are taking a variety of videos, sort of like a ‘sampler’ of various ‘acts’, then you’ll add markers and export to DVD creating a variety of menu choices on the final DVD? Yes? Or are you expecting to take the one timeline and create multiple renders from it, which it sort of sounds like you are saying.
You can import mov files directly without L&T. And as I understand it, there’s no reason to take the MXF files and transcode, you should be able to render directly to MOV output from the timeline. But I’m unclear as to how FCP will handle a wide array of different types without transcoding. I’ve usually stuck with all Prores or all MXF.
I would make your next step some short test videos, that run your workflow from end to end without adding all the footage, and you should be able to see what happens, time the rendering and get some notion of what works best. We can only give you so much info without you actually trying it out. That’s how I learned this stuff. Trial and error, and questions.
Good luck, and maybe someone else out here on the board has a better idea on this.
Alf
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I highly recommend considering upgrading to a faster processor with more RAM. But also do what John recommends in the meantime.
Alf
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Greg, upgrade to 10. I was not happy with even using 9. There were major improvements in 10 due to Sony finally supporting AVCHD on their cameras, (funny how that works). You don’t specify on your post or your profile what computer you are using to do this on. Steve is right that you might need to upgrade your system to drive AVCHD footage, even close to smoothly. I still struggle with it, as Vegas playback is very choppy even with the best video cards and tons of RAM. Its the achilles heel of the product, but I can get it to work well enough. Make sure your footage is on a drive other than the OS, and preferably eSata. 7200 rpm is recommended.
Alf
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Brimm, use the Canon XF Utility to label your clips. Then use the Canon FCP utility to bring them into your project. You do not have to transcode to use the clips. You can bring them in “native”. Yes, this is one of the formats that Apple supports natively. There’s a dropdown in the L&T plug in that allows you to choose that, or you can transcode if you wish. Take a look.
Once there, you can see that you have your logging data maintained, and in the right format.
Hope this helps.
Alf
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Seems like it has something to do with the earthquake, as the supply dried up not long after it.
Alf
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8 gbs work for me fine, so it’s not vegas. Have you got the ability to swap the ram outentirely? Either that or maybe a motherboard problem.
Alf
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Nicolas, the zoom does not support true line in. You can easily search to find this well documented. You need to pad it, at best. Put a mixpre in front of it and you will be better off. This is the easiest way to explain it quickly. Search around for more detail, that’s what i did.
Alf
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Anthony, do you mean to clips of the same camera and scene, broken up, or do you mean two different scenes? For color correcting many short clips from the same camera and same ‘take’ (like in doing multicamera editing), you can color correct your first take, and when you go to paste on the subsequent clips, right click and choose paste event attributes (if I am remembering the right menu name). This pastes just the attributes of the clip, like color correction, as opposed to the clip itself.
hope this helps.
Alf