Michael Hayes
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Grrr, well Cliptoolz doesn’t seem to do it. Also tried the Content Browser from Sony (used to be the XDCAM Explorer) and that doesn’t recognized the files. Vegas’s own XDCAM utility doesn’t mount them either. Eesh, what a pain!
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Ah okay, further investigation reveals it’s in XDCAm HD. some research indicates that it won’t open in Vegas as long as it’s in a .mov wrapper. Is there any easy conversion format to get it into an .avi wrapper? I just got a license for Cliptoolz Convert if that will do it, just a little fuzzy on its unusual interface.
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Incidentally, this never worked. The DVD-A help suggests using the “order titles” function which doesn’t solve the problem.
After driving myself mostly insane, I went back to Vegas, edited all the clips together into one big movie with markers. Then in DVD-A I imported the movie for as many times as there were clips, using the IN/OUT markers for each clip area.
Then I added empty buttons to a menu that pointed to the appropriate movie section. Voila, the next chapter buttons on the remote now work.
Shame I couldn’t use my separate clips, but the solution worked and I was able to get the DVDs burned on time.
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Thanks! The bitcalc is great and the know-how is even better. Going through a post-prod process has been helpful for slowly demystifying the the great black art of digital video. 🙂
I’m getting 9672kbs and all my motion noise is gone. Yay!
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Oh, nevermind, forum search to the rescue!
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Like I said above, the total amount of takes consist of different takes and two different cameras (so, two angles per take). The performance wasn’t exact each time, so even though they start and end together they drift in places (the performance drifts). That’s why I opted not to use a multi-camera clip.
I suppose making a comp track would work, but simply splitting my clips is going pretty swell, the only things that’s a drag is rolling back “all but one” clip after each edit decision. Being able to select them all and move the clip edge would be a huge timesaver.
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No help there, the footage is DVCPRO-HD, which those codecs don’t cover.
Someone suggested transcoding to MPG2 since that’s what DVD’s get down-rez’d to anyhow, I”m having problems finding info to help back that up.
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I thought that was a FCP-only codec. I’ll have to look into it.
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Would you recommend a preferred format to convert to for editing? And hey, any chance of it being done with a free prog would be much appreciated! 🙂
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I’ve thought about it, but to be honest reading some of the other conversion threads made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. 😉
As it is, I’m struggling with all the rendering options to find the best way to produce vidz I can port over to DVDA without looking like poop.