Guðmundur Erlingsson
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Step 2 isn’t necessary (if Step 1 is “Import & Convert” and Step 2 is “Edit”), if you’ve imported the mp4-files in the column on the left, and then clicked “Add clip to conversion list” and then “Convert all” (bottom right), you should now have an avi-file in the same folder that contains the mp4 files. In Advanced Settings you can change some options, f.ex. if you want mov-files rather than avi-files.
And yes, the avi-files are considerably larger than the mp4-files. A 123.555 KB mp4 file will be a 540.709 KB avi-file. By reducing the quality in Advanced Settings you will probably get smaller files, but I don’t know how much it will affect the quality of the image.
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I used footage from the Samsung Galaxy III a couple of months ago, and it seemed Vegas (I use version 10) didn’t handle the Samsung h264 files well. The solution I used was to convert the Samsung files with GoPro Cineform Studio to Avi (the basic version of GoPro Cineform St. is free: https://gopro.com/software-app/cineform-studio/). I didn’t do any extensive testing on the quality, but it worked perfectly for my purposes (projection of video in a (smallish) theatre production), and the avi-files worked smoothly in Vegas.
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Speaking of hardware, wouldn’t a nicely laid out Hackintosh with separate partitions for MacOS, Windows 7 (and even Linux) solve the that particular problem? Or could that be disastrous at some point?
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Hi again,
After searching some more I found an even better explanation for this. Maybe a better description of this is to layer (rather then merge) video and audio into a single entity (not unlike a photoshop image), which then can be used in the editing (there are also several threads that come up in the FCP forum here on Creative Cow if you search for “Merge Clips”.
Concerning Vegas, the closest I’ve managed to find is in this thread. The workaround suggested there is either to sync on the timeline and either render out to a file (but then losing the possibility of having layers of audio or video) or to save it as a .veg file, which seems to pretty much do the trick.
I’ll look into PluralEyes. Thanks, Steve, for pointing it out (so many useful software out there, it’s impossible to keep track), according to their FAQ it should be possible.
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Thank you for the answer, Steve. No, it’s not really a question of me looking pro as it’s not something I need to do, it’s just that I’d like to be able to give my friend an answer to this (and possibly get him to use Vegas) :). I can’t really explain it better than it is explained in the youtube video, as I’m not really knowledgeable about FCP at all. As I understand it, he needs to prepare all the shots from a days shooting and sync all relevant audio (from the camera, boom mike, etc) to the relevant video clip, and when he closes the file the info is still there, so when the editor eventually starts to edit the movie he can just start editing and doesn’t have to start with syncing audio. So, a time saver basically, but it seemed an important selling point to my friend. (And I used “clips” because the feature is called “Merge Clips” in FCP, so didn’t have a better word for, english not being my first language an all that.) Hope that clears it a bit, but I’m basically trying to explain something I’ve never used myself in a language I don’t use every day…