Dr. Dropout
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To get the closest possible V6 + V7 playback settings, do a control + shift + restart of Vegas 6 (to reset all prefs to “factory settings”). Don’t change _anything_ , window size etc, use the 100% default layout.
Load a DV clip. Play, note the playback framerate. Save the project.
Do a control + shift restart of Vegas 7, again leave everything at the exact default settings and window sizes. Then right click on the preview window and UNCHECK “Simulate device aspect ratio”. Load the Vegas 6 project, play. Note playback framerate- any difference from Vegas 6?
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AAF from Premiere Pro opened in Vegas 6/7 should work pretty well. Pre-“pro” premiere lists/projects/exports of any type almost definitely will not open in Vegas correctly. If you are in 6.0x era Premiere, try opening the project in (ideally the current version of) Premiere and then export to AAF. Vegas 6 or 7 should open that AAF.
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The Aja LH sounds like the right card for you. Whatever you have on the timeline will be conformed to the project resolution for the SDI or component output. Performance varies depending on the format, fx etc and of course your system capabilities.
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Shortly prior to release, the Vegas 7 dev team qualified Decklink driver version 5.6 on a number of SDI capable systems, using a variety of SD and HD SDI decks and monitors. If you are using Vegas 7, Decklink driver 5.6 is the only driver that Sony Vegas support will help you with.
Other Decklink driver versions _can_ be used with Vegas 7, there is no special code in Vegas to preclude their use BUT, be warned: other drivers might work properly, they might not, nobody at Sony will have tested them to any extent, you are on your own in terms of Sony support if you choose to use another version than the one that has been qualified.
We appreciate that the Decklink folks update their drivers on a constant basis but it is impossible to test with and make changes to an application to accomodate constantly changing drivers. Other apps typically or at least quite often appear to have officially certified drivers that are out of sync with the most current Decklink drivers version, presumably for similar reasons.
DH/SMS
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Do you have XP SP2? You need to if you are doing HDV of any sort.
If yes to XP SP2, confirm the camera is set to HDV out. If it is, check control panel>device manager. When you cycle the power on the camera off/on, does device manager update? If so, with what exact driver?
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Analog i/o with Decklink is not supported in any version of Vegas. SDI i/o is supported.
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You might try re-opening the project with in AVID, making sure that you are indeed referencing the consolidated media. Re-export the AAF, re-open in Vegas. You may be able to manually relink if Vegas isn’t picking up the paths automatically (it should, if paths didn’t change)
Timecode in source files will not be read.
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The first pressing of discs (which went off to the duplicator several weeks ago) was an earlier build, 7.0.0. build 79.
If you downloaded V7 from the Sony website, you are current.
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Vegas can deal with both legacy AAFs and “edit Protocol” AAFs from more modern AVIDs. The most typical user problems in the AVID AAF Out> Vegas AAF In are
a) making sure that all needed codecs and formats are on the machine and are supported by both apps
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b) media re-linking.
Assuming you are doing this on a single machine where the AVID codecs are installed, you might try exporting all (trimmed ok) media to a folder, and then exporting an AAF file without embedded media, into the same folder. When you import that AAF into Vegas, Vegas will typically ask for the location of the first piece of media to be relinked and then will automatically find the rest (since it is in the same folder).
If this doesn’t work, it would be nice to know the format of the media your AVID is writing. If it is is AVID .MXF, that could be a problem- Vegas 7 does not support AVID MXF source types at this time (this is an AVID-only flavor of MXF). You might then look at having AVID write .avi or QT files during the export/consolidate.
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x_gogoa,
Analog capture/print is not supported at this time for anything other than monitoring.
Audio will be captured along with video over SDI, no need to split them out to AES or Asio for either capture or print to tape (monitoring…ok).
What deck are you using? Can you successfully capture using the standalone Decklink app? Have you modified any settings on the Decklink prefs page (control panel)? Vegas 7 has a new Decklink prefs page- is that configured to match your capture needs?
I (and others at SMS)have tested capture over SDI from Digibeta, DVCAM w/SDI, XDCAM SD and HD w/SDI, and HDCAM; works well with driver 5.6 if your configuration is right.