[Phil Seymour]

I am as curious as Steve… it would seem the file is a project file from an editing program, but it would need the original files to work. The only way you could see the two video streams is with an editing program, so unless the recipient had the same editing program and you sent the project file and its components it would not be viewable.
Odd that VLC plays the file… I didn’t think it was that smart. What is the file extension?

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[Phil Seymour]

Not of help, but have you thought of making vampire movies: 🙂

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[Phil Seymour]

Strange as it may seem, BluRay doesn’t support 25P. It does 24P, and 50i.

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[Phil Seymour]

Grazie is probably closest to the mark, but cheezy as it may be what does the software that came with the device do? It must capture in some sort of format, and that file if it isn’t some format from the third planet of Betelgeuse maybe Vegas will import it. Only thing Vegas recognises is firewire and you could use something from the Grass Valley (nee Canopus) range – ie ADVC110. But you probably don’t want to rush out and buy a new device if it is a one-off job.

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[Phil Seymour]

You will find that shooting in bright sunlight is one of the hardest things to do. The latitude of solid state sensors is still behind film, so reflected fill lighting or sometimes lens filters are needed to flatten the lighting. As Steve said with post control the same applies to shooting. And it is always best to get it right in the shooting rather than rely on correcting later.
Have a look at pictures of movie shoots… note the lighting setups even in outdoor shots. You are not alone with the problem of latitude.

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[Phil Seymour]

You intend working in HD… and the world and technology have moved on from when Vegas 8 was in its prime. I would say yes to upgrade. There isn’t a piece of software without horror stories about it on the web, possibly some of the stories well deserved, but the big software makers are here to make money, and dud software soon tarnishes reputations. Windows based computers are a minefield for conflicting software, hardware and drivers, there being so many makers and models on the market (one reason Apple computers are so popular with a more controlled environment.)
Fortunately, there are forums like this when you have troubles.
Upgrade!

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[Phil Seymour]

I continued with my battle with the BCF2000, and finally got the thing to work. Apart from the white paper from Sony, thee isn’t a lot of info about what the controls do or what combinations of buttons do etc, but careful re-reading is making sense. I am at a disadvantage in that I am not a Midi geek. The Faderport is probably better.. and I am thinking of buying one… but the reason why I persist with the Behringer is I want to work 3 or 4 audio tracks on the same pass.

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[Phil Seymour]

I am not sure why Sony said the camera doesn’t support Windows 8, but it records to removable memory cards and they can be read by any system, Windows, Mac or Linux via a card reader (make sure the reader can handle modern high speed, high capacity cards.)

Whether Win 8 is as useful or good as Microsoft says it is, time will tell. Hopefully it isn’t another Vista.
With Hi-def you will need a high spec computer, so as long as it has (say) an i7 CPU, about 16gig RAM,a couple of large hard drives and a Blu-Ray burner plus a good graphics card, you should be in the business of HD video-making.

It is probably not worth worrying about GPU accelerated render/preview at the moment unless you have a very high end Nvidia card (Quadro series). For general cards the jury is still out on whether it is worth the bother, but some users may disagree. I have a GTX570 card and it really doesn’t do a lot.

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[Phil Seymour]

Well, maybe the latest build might help. Strange how something works on one machine and not another… provided they are not loaded with tons of crap as our machines aren’t. Oh for Vegas porting to a Mac.

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[Phil Seymour]

As Steve asks, have you installed any other video software or one or more of the dreaded third-party codecs?

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