Stephen Konsor
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Ridiculous! That worked man, THANKS. I kept seeing that in FCP, its how I knew it was being interpreted as lower field, but I had no idea you could change it. That fixed everything. THANKS again!
Stephen Konsor
Diorama Studios
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AWESOME! That helps!
I have a rough one done using what you said and it looks great. THANKS again!
Stephen Konsor
Diorama Studios
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AWESOME! I am new to C4D, so how would I do that? I am guessing that I could animate a black and white “mask” video in AE and then bring it into C4D material under the Alpha Channel? Can you shoot me some quick details on that? THANKS for your help already. It is much apprecitated.
Stephen Konsor
Diorama Studios
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Erik,
That is the way Raylight works, it just puts a proxy icon so you can drag that into Vegas. The nice thing is that there is a little box that pops up while editing which allows you to select the quality of the clip while you edit. You can have it at a lower quality while you edit and then the highest while you render, saves a lot of time. As far as using your laptop, you could use it to dump files to on shoot day, but you probably can not edit 720 on that machine. As far as your final question, not knowing the specific type of video work you do, I could say that getting an HVX200 can’t be a bad idea. The camera itself was designed around versatility. The only thing that you may want to consider would be getting one of the portable harddrives from firestore instead of a bunch of P2 cards. I believe the 100gig Firestore goes for 2500.00 while an 8gig card is 1300.00. Even if my prices are off a little the 100gigs on one drive is amazing. Unless you do small studio shoots, I can’t see why that would not be convenient. The fact that you have a dvx100 will help you when you use the HVX200 because they are so close in design, and I would stick with Vegas at this point. If you are using editing software as a basic cutter as I do, (simply putting clips together with basic text) Vegas works perfect for that. If you start doing a lot of After effect style work or require online editing and such you then may need to upgrade. Personally I do the majority of my work in AE and then simple cut together in Vegas. Hope this helps. THANKS
Steve
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Erik,
Your question can probably best be answered by what you plan on doing with the camera/footage. To answer your questions, Vegas6 can edit in FULL 1080i or any below, however you need a pretty hefty computer to edit efficiently. To first be able to even get the clips into V6 you need a program like Raylight to convert them to an .avi file that V6 can import to the timeline. V6 natively imports the JVC .xmf files into the timeline, but not the 200, which again is why you need Raylight. If you got the 200 your workflow would be: Shoot, dump .xmf files to your hard drive(which you would have to do anyway), convert them using Raylight(which simply adds an .avi icon in the .xmf folder, it doesn’t actually make a new file), you then open Vegas and drag the .avi icon that Raylight made and edit like normal. Again, the efficiency that you can edit full HD will be based on you computer. With this workflow, you could shoot 1080i footage 100% of the time and then edit, and render out in whatever format you needed. To save yourself the step of using Raylight, you could switch to Avid Liquid. If you have anymore questions, let me know. THANKS Steve -
I have only rented to 200, but so far it works pretty good. You need to convert the .mxf files to something that Vegas can edit. If you look in the info for Vegas it says that it will import .mxf files, but it is only for the JVC HDV camera. The best program I found for converting is Raylight https://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/ . Go through the tutorial on the site to see the procedure for converting, it is easy, but also an extra step. You will need a Pentium 4 or Athlon64 to use it. Also my computer is a Pentium 3.0g HT and doesnt play 720 files very well, so you will need a pretty hefty computer, preferable a 64bit. I shoot in 720 24pn and then Convert to 480p to Key and edit, that mode also gives you more time on the P2 cards. If you have any more questions let me know. THANKS
Steve Konsor