[Rowan Brooks]

My Co-director can open the files in QT but he cannot work with them in Vegas 8 because .mov is not recognized by Vegas.

Our predicament is that we need to capture the HDV tapes to .avi for Vegas OR convert my Final Cut generated .mov files to .avi.

I can’t do either, unless I take the suggestion to go down to dv instead of HDV which I assume gives us standard def.

Why doesn’t a Sony App (Vegas) support output from a Sony Camera (Z1U)? Both definitely exist/ed on the market at the same time??

Note: We used 2 cameras for this film – the Sony EX1 was the 2nd Camera:

All the EX1 .mov files that I converted to .avi in Final Cut look great when opened in Vegas but for some reason the .mov’s I converted to .avi from the Z1U look awful.

I even tried Compression “None” as a conversion option, and “Cinepak”. Nothing worked.

[Rowan Brooks]

How do you set the z1 to convert it?

[Rowan Brooks]

Can you do .m2t to .avi transfer in Vegas Pro? If so do you know how to do it with good results?

My co-director is European using Vegas 8 on a PC – I am Using FCP on a Mac.

I initially captured the footage in Final Cut creating .mov files, when I converted to .avi to give to him the results were horrible.

He needs high quality .avi files from the HDV tapes, so far all efforts have been useless. Any guidance appreciated.