Capturing HDV From the Sony HDR-FX1 With Vegas

tnw2933 schrieb am 04.11.2004 um 16:36 Uhr

The Sony HDR-FX1 HDV camcorder is now shipping world-wide and is available her in the U.S. now. My HDR-FX1 will arrive tomorrow, and I am disappointed to see that Sony-Vegas have not yet provided a capture solution for HDV footage. I know that Vegas 5.0b can easily edit HDV footage now because I have downloaded raw HDV clips shot with the HDR-FX1 and posted on the internet and edited them with no problems in Vegas 5.0b. However, there is as of today no capture solution for Vegas for raw HDV footage. Can anyone suggest a capture solution for getting HDV footage into Vegas that is avilable now since I have no idea when Sony-Vegas will make one available? I hate to have to move to another NLE solution just to work with HDV footage.

Tom

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farss schrieb am 08.11.2004 um 21:19 Uhr

Unlike Pinnacle these guys aren't renown for releasing buggy products or if they do hit an oops they seem to fix it pronto.
Seems to work fine with HDV, SD and CineAlta but not HD SR, although they said if I wanted that they'd get the engineers to look into it.
Now this stuff isn't costing peanuts but to anyone who things they can have a half decent go at even HDV for pocket change all I can say is Get Real!
If I'm going to fork out $35K for a monitor and $150K for a deck what's $10K for a NLE system? We were thinking to spend 10 times that on a NLE but if someone can bring it home for less so much the better.

Bob.

Hulk schrieb am 09.11.2004 um 05:20 Uhr

Tom,

Thanks for answering my question. I'm wondering what file XP needed to install specifically for the FX1? Any ideas? I'm probably wrong but wouldn't a FX1 specific file have to be already "in" XP, which means that MS is (was) ready for HDV?

Mark

farss schrieb am 09.11.2004 um 05:33 Uhr

Now aren't those guys at Redmond nice to us, if it was a Mac, lets see, I'd have to buy the latest OS and then discover that wouldn't run on my G3 so I'd have to drive accross town to the Apple Centre again to pickup a G5 but then when I got it home I'd discover the plug on the monitor I used with my G3 wouldn't fit so I'd have to drive accross town again to find that Apple didn't make an adaptor so I'd have to buy a new monitor. And when I got back home and finally having gotten OSX to work and loading FCP, oh poop, I'd need the latest version of that too and then....
Well at least they come in a pretty box.
Bob.

tnw2933 schrieb am 10.11.2004 um 16:54 Uhr

Hulk,

I have no idea what file Windows XP installed when I connected my Sony HDR-FX1. I plugged the camera in, heard the Windows XP tone indicating a device had been connected to the firewire port, saw a brief message flash on my screen that Windows had recognized new hardware and installed the necessary software for it. I suspect it really did not install any new software but just recognized that this a firewire device and to use the normal firewire driver with it. In any case CapDVHS instantly recognized the camera when I opened CapDVHS.

Tom

tnw2933 schrieb am 10.11.2004 um 16:58 Uhr

Of course even C-band satellite HD is compressed at the head end. However, It is quite easy to see from teh C-band picture quality that the compression is much less than that used by small dish satellite where the signal is compressed once at the head end and a second time at the re-distribution point. And if I am hallucinating, I can tell you that the hallucinations are stunning to see!!! Equally stunning are the compressed mepg2 HD stream from the Sony HDR-FX1.

Tom

JJKizak schrieb am 10.11.2004 um 17:13 Uhr

Well, compressed or not, I'm with you on the stunning aspect even with plain old HDV 19.7 Meg stream. I was curious though how a satellite could handle those 100 meg data streams and make money at it.

JJK

John McCully schrieb am 10.11.2004 um 18:48 Uhr

SONY UNVEILS ITS FIRST COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL HDV SYSTEM

http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/5327

http://news.sel.sony.com/pressrelease/5331

John_Cline schrieb am 10.11.2004 um 19:36 Uhr

OK, Spot, the "cat's out of the bag." Are you now released from your NDA? If so, what can you tell us about the HVR-Z1U?

The press release says, "The HVR-Z1U HDV 1080 camcorder can record HDV, DVCAM and DV images at 60i, 50i, 30, 25 or 24 frames per second, in either SD or HD." Does it actually do true 24 and 30 frame progressive?

What else do you know? Come on, out with it!

John

mhf schrieb am 14.11.2004 um 13:03 Uhr

Tom,

Can I come hang out at your house some afternoon -- your setup is da bomb!!

Seriously, thanks for all the great info on the HDR-FX1 and your REAL experiences. I'm thinking about the camera and you've provides truely valuable information.

BTW, it appears that the price for the ConnectHD is now $149, not $499 as mentioned earlier in this thread. See cineform.com for details.

Regards,

Marc