Dr. Dropout
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Vegas cannot import MPEG elementary streams- which it sounds like you have created. Sorry I don’t have a workaround. TMPEG might possibly be able to turn these into program streams without a recompress (which would be the ideal scenario).
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a quick fyi: Anything recorded to HDCAM is going to be 8bit once it hits the tape.
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Since you would take a quality hit recompressing back to HDV MPEG-2, you might consider using Quicktime uncompressed or Quicktime Animation codec.
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With Vegas 6, you have to use the qualified driver 4.8.1. SDI capture only is supported. If you capturing audio/video other than over sdi (ie analog) you’ll likeliy have problems.
You might try capturing with the Decklink standlone applet- that may work better in the analog scenario.
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Open the bin prior to capture- captured clips will go into the active bin.
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Vegas 6.0d has two file format plug-ins for encoding H.264- export as Sony AVC/AAC for PSP output, or as MainConcept AVC/AAC for other flavors, including video ipod & HD.
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Every DVCAM deck will play back miniDV tapes. There is ZERO audio/video quality difference between DVCAM and mini DV- same exact video compression scenario, DV25; audio= PCM 16/48.
Rest assured plenty of Vegas users have delivered masters that were shot on, and delivered on, miniDV. If your master tape is clean (no dropouts) and your program is “broadcast legal” (checks out on the Vegas scopes; audio isn’t too hot/too low, program a/v matches up with Vegas bars/tone) you’ll be fine.
Dubbing to SP…you can do that if they make you…and it’ll look/sound worse than your all digital miniDV master.
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Use the “render image sequence” script in Vegas to output a .png sequence.
Import the .png sequence into AE, treat it as needed, render out a new .png sequence in AE.
Import the new .png sequence into Vegas- all should be good, quality will be high, alpha channel will carry across (if needed).
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Fish around the AVID website, download/install the AVID codecs for Adrenline, you should be good to go.
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Exporting a .PNG image sequence from Vegas to AE (and bringing same back into Vegas) works well- you won’t have any framerate rounding errors, you’ll be able to roundtrip an alpha channel with each frame, and if you need to make changes to a limited number of frames in AE you can do that (alleviating the need to re-render the entire file as would be the case with .avi)