Bob,

Sorry I didn't quite get the meaning of your last statement. I guess the 50Mbps 4:2:2 has been long awaited; do you think Vegas will be supporting it soon - or did SCS indicated to the contrary?

Bob, when doing an MPEG-2 encode from Vegas, if you select "High Profile" in "Profile" on the Video tab, you then have the option of selecting 4:2:2 as the sampling format in the Advanced Video tab.
I'm totally clueless about this though so I could just be babbling incoherently :-)

Mike

Sort of.
Not at 1920x1080 50Mb/sec High Profile.

I suspect what we need is the Studio Profile which goes to 100Mb/sec.

Piotr,
what I meant was Sony have had this HD422 @ 50Mb/sec XDCAM planned for over a year. So it should be in Vegas already.

Then again looking at how the limitation works in the encoder settings it could well be a licencing issue. If it's not then a bit of work went into implementing the limitation for no good reason.

Bob.

Thanks Bob for the clarification. This worries me, in the context of the Flash XDR /NanoFlash 50 or 100Mbps HD422 output :(

I just succeeded in creating a 1920 x 1080, High Level/High Profile, 4:2:2, 50Mbps MPEG-2 encoding template in VP8.

It seems you have to change the settings in the correct order - I picked a 1920 x 1080 Blu-Ray template as a base, then changed (Video tab) Profile -> High, Level -> High, (switch to Advanced Video tab) Sampling format -> 4:2:2, VBV Buffer size -> 1194 (guessing here), (back to Video tab) Bitrate can be set up to 80Mbps!!

Playing back something encoded with the template, the FFDshow MPEG decoder OSD reckons it's 1920 x 1080, 422 colour space @ 50Mbps so it appears to encode correctly (and loads on the the VP8 timeline too...)

Tony

Yes, I managed to encode a HDD422 from an EX1's HQ mxf as well.

But - due perhaps to some single, stupid flag or lack thereof - the same format created by the Clip Browser v2 is not understood by Vegas!

Just started a new thread (now deleted) before I spotted this one.

The best new features for me are the abilty to set in and out points and renaming clips before exporting to MXF.

edit - Well I thought that was possible, but exporting to MXF changed the name back to the original name - maybe I've missed out a step - can't see the point of renaming in Clip Browser only.

Well I thought that was possible, but exporting to MXF changed the name back to the original name - maybe I've missed out a step - can't see the point of renaming in Clip Browser only

Same with user's comments to clips - they never make it to NLE (not Vegas at least). Also, the Media Markers don't display the RecStart label...

XDCAM 422 will be supported in the next Vegas update, 8.0c.

If you are shooting/importing from the EX, there is no point in converting to 422 MXF- just choose MXF and don't change the bitrate- all the shooting modes of the EX will open in Vegas 8.0b.