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John Rofrano
March 4, 2017 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Need a Video Converter:

Sorry I should have given you a pointer to the product page.

Boris FX includes BCC UpRez as part of the larger Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) suite or it can be purchased as part of the smaller Continuum Image Restoration Unit which contains 12 effects including UpRez.

I checked the Free Trial links on those pages and they seem to work. 😉

~jr

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John Rofrano
March 3, 2017 at 4:21 pm in reply to: Need a Video Converter:

I see that Joe already answered your question and I agree. DV AVI files should be fine in FCP X. No need to do anything special.

If you want everything in a QuickTime format, Compressor will simply rewrap DV AVI files as MOV files with no quality loss but as Joe pointed out, there is really no need since FCP X already handles DV AVI files natively.

If the project is HD and the DV files look bad, you might want to try a plug-in like Boris FX BCC UpRez. This will convert SD to HD with “smart” sharpening that can improve the picture quality over just resizing.

Here is training that I did for Boris TV on using UpRez in FCP X and Motion 5 if you want to see if in action:

https://vimeo.com/113612763

~jr

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John Rofrano
March 1, 2017 at 4:54 pm in reply to: Need a Video Converter:

[Ray Sherman] “I know FCPX will accept .avi but, wouldn’t it in your opinion be best to convert it all to .mov before importing it into FCPX for editing?”

QuickTime is the native container for Mac and Audio Video Interleave is the native container for Windows so I would recommend that it is best to place them in a native QuickTime (mov) container for best compatibility.

[Ray Sherman] “If so, do you have any suggestions for the best converter for this since EditReady won’t ingest it?”

What codec does the AVI file use and does QuickTime support that codec? If yes, you want to look for a program that will just re-wrap. If no, you’ll need to transcode.

Have you tried Apple Compressor 4? I have DV Widescreen AVI files that I drop into Compressor and select the DV/DVCPRO NTSC template and check the box that says [x] Enable video pass-through and it simply re-wraps the DV video into a MOV container. No quality loss at all.

So it depends on what codec you are dealing with.

~jr

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John Rofrano
March 1, 2017 at 4:53 am in reply to: What is the simplest way to trim ?

[Sergei Sokolov] “When you press Alt+[ it just moves the cursor back to the start of the current section.”

Not for me. Ctrl+[ moves to the beginning and Atl+[ trims the beginning of the clip to the cursor.

Like I said, take a look at Help | Keyboard Shortcuts where it clearly states:

Trim the start of the selected event to the cursor position Alt=[

~jr

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John Rofrano
March 1, 2017 at 4:40 am in reply to: Ideal intermediate editing and render codecs

[Mark Ryan] “And if I do use FX and render to Sony MXF will it still handle it very well?”

Yes, it should be fine.

[Mark Ryan] “What about for the original MP4 footage, would you convert it MXF before editing in Vegas and would you leave it as that when rendering or use it as a proxy and replace it?”

I would just edit the MP4 files as long as they perform well for you.

[Mark Ryan] “Also, I wanted to say thanks a lot”

You’re very welcome. I’m glad you’ve found my posts helpful.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 28, 2017 at 10:04 pm in reply to: How do you do this with Vegas 13?

Sounds you are using Movie Studio and that’s a Vegas Pro tutorial. You are correct. You don’t have those compositing modes so you can’t do what he is doing.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 28, 2017 at 10:00 pm in reply to: Ideal intermediate editing and render codecs

Sony MXF HD422 at 50Mbps is a nice high quality format for HD. Vegas Pro will “smart render” so if you include it in another project and don’t add any FX, it will just copy the media losslessly to the rendered file.

A true Digital Intermediary would be something like CineForm which can be obtained by installing the free GoPro Studio and then making a custom Video for Windows AVI template in Vegas Pro.

I would just use Sony MXF. A single extra render is not going to show any quality loss.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 28, 2017 at 4:16 am in reply to: v14 – unsupported format, unsupported number of channels

[Max Singer] “I am still able to import the same files on Movie Studio 13.0 Platinum on the same computer without a problem.”

Sounds like a bug. You might want to report it to MAGIX.

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 28, 2017 at 4:15 am in reply to: What is the simplest way to trim ?

[Sergei Sokolov] “Can you open a sample media file, and write down EXACTLY what keystrokes you use to DELETE :10 to :20 ?”

Ctrl+G :10
S
Ctrl+G :20
Alt+[

~jr

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John Rofrano
February 26, 2017 at 3:46 pm in reply to: vegas pro effects window cutoff

[László Kovács] “It was something with dpi scaling in windows ;)”

Yea, it looks like you have your default Windows font set to something other than 100% and Windows does an absolutely horrible job of scaling. Set it back to 100% and it should resolve itself.

~jr

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