[Mordy Gilden]

Hey, sorry to revive an old thread but I stumbled upon this while doing some midnight research on making more edit-friendly proxy options out of 4K footage.

I own a couple of Atomos recorders and work almost exclusively with Vegas. I don’t know if it makes a difference, but Atomos does NOT only record Prores. These days all of their recording products are licensed out of the box to record both ProRes and Avid’s DNxHD. I found my PC is much happier with the Avid files, and have them all set to DNxHD by default. I was aware that Vegas sometimes chokes on ProRes, but does it matter if it is another codec that happens to exist in a MOV container? I thought I had effectively gotten away with using my Atomos recorders by picking the more PC friendly codec, but now I realize that its because I usually use the recorders for long-form sessions (hour long concerts, etc), and only import a handful of files at the end.

Now you got me wondering, is Avid’s codec any better than Apple’s in regard to Vegas? Will it still choke once I load 100+ files if that ever happens? I know DNxHD can also exist as an MXF, and is not exclusively a quicktime format. Is QT being invoked simply because of the mov extension? I wonder then, can I just batch rename the extensions to MXF and then have it be universally friendly with Vegas? The Atomos recorders are too useful and I refuse to believe that they can’t work harmoniously with my favorite editor of all.

[Mordy Gilden]

My goodness, I was going crazy trying to fix that old script (the one called deleteEmptySpace.js by Philip that has been floating around since 2003)!

Crazy that so many random forums and blogs reference it without any follow up saying it doesn’t work correctly on current versions of Vegas! I was making a highlight reel and seperated out clips as the timeline played in real-time, and I just wanted to condense them all together afterwards. But that $%@#!^ script would shift each clip in time! I was scratching my head trying to figure out why the clips were no longer what I had cut out, until I noticed the little repetition marker noting where the file ended and started over in the middle of a clip!

I thought it was just me, because that script has been referenced so many times without any mention of it not working for anyone! THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS NEW ONE! You’ve saved me hours of mindless clicking to clean this up!