Douglas Spotted eagle
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Just to be clear, and to quell any rumors…Vegas Pro 9 is no chance, no how, no way, not gonna happen….in the next “two months or so.”
Most of the Vegas 9 problems people are having with the movie studio product are related to specific machine configs. As a general rule, the memory issue is a non-issue.
Running VMSP on multiple machines, been editing with it for quite a long while now.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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I don’t believe FCP 4 supports mxf?
We do this fairly regularly, as we exchange files with a posthouse in Austin, who is an FCS-based house.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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You also need DVD Architect with the licensed Main Concept encoder installed.
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Render to IMX/MXF formats in Vegas, it reads very nicely in FCP
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Yes, the signal from the HDMI port is precompression on all cameras (AFAIK). It’s also 10 bit, although the last two bits are set to null (no additional data in those bits). Quality of capture is relevant to the hardware you use.
Bear in mind that the glass on every AVCHD camcorder available today is pretty low grade.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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just to be clear:
avi is merely a package.
mov is merely a package.
you can have an uncompressed file packaged in an .avi or in a .mov.
you can have a hightly compressed file packaged in an .avi or .mov.
you can have the exact same file packaged in both containers, and the file size will be approximately the same. Render a file to DV in an avi package and then do the same thing with a Quicktime/mov file.
They’ll be nearly identical.
For VJ work, I’d recommend an .mp4 file, wmv file, or MPEG2 file.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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You don’t need to wipe anything. You can convert a drive from FAT32 to NTFS without fear of losing anything. I do this at least once a month, due to forgetfullness for portable drives.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881Very handy, fast, and easy.
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I understand how it is *easier* to have all of your audio on the one cam, I just can’t understand how folks are willing to compromise what is usually already bad sound by going to 12bit, 32K audio. It’s a significant reduction in quality. Add to it the _usual_ bad recording techniques most videographers practice, and it’s a horrible combination. Then again…I’m an audio freak. I’m also not a 24 bit/192k enthusiast, but I do want clean/clear fat audio.
Processing 12 bit/32K audio isn’t a good thing, ever. But…if convenience is more important than quality…it works.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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At 15Fps, you’re gonna have to expect some ghosting. You might try rendering to 30p, with force resample.
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format your render drive from FAT 32 (how it probably came out of the box for Apple compatibility) to NTFS, and there willbe no file size limitation.
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