If anyone out there is using an Aiptek HD you're probably aware of how difficult it is using it in Windows and editing in Vegas as it outputs .MOV with H.264 codec.

Can anyone share what their workflow is like? I'm finding it difficult to find a straightforward way of importing footage, editing in Vegas and rendering without a big mess.

Here is some of what I found. Problem one is the source MOV files don't play smoothly in the first place. You can load them in Vegas but it's very slow to edit and it doesn't pick up the audio.

One solution I found was that you use SUPER encoding software to encode to a "Vegas friendly" file like a lower resolution MPG and proxy edit which allows you to edit the clone files and then push the edit back into the source MOV.

After that is all done, you can render the source footage to something like MP4 but I find that the playing is a little jerky. Rendering to another MOV with lower bit rates seems to be the best medium when you want to hold on to the HD resolution and go back to the web.

When going to DVD I find that you have to render everything back down to 720 x 480.

Anyone else?