Avid Media Composer HDV files in Vegas

bakerja wrote on 8/6/2008, 1:04 PM
Hi folks,

I am looking for an option to get Avid Media Composer 1080i/59.94 HDV files to Vegas 8. I found a product called Raylight and tried the demo but Raylight does not seem to like the Media Composer mxf files. While Vegas will import the mxf files into project media, I cannot preview or drop them to timeline.

Does anyone have any experience using Media Composer MXF files in Vegas?

Thanks in advance for any tips.

JAB

Comments

Bill Ravens wrote on 8/6/2008, 3:02 PM
Native AVID mxf will not import into Vegas, as you've surmised. Your best bet is to render out of AVID to a good intermediate like DNxHD, Cineform, Sheer, or uncompressed.

Native Avid mxf is a proprietary avid intermediate not recognized by any other NLE's, that I'm aware of.
quoka wrote on 8/6/2008, 4:58 PM
I have these Avid codecs loaded and working with Vegas8 - don't know if these will read the one your wanting to but it may be worth a try -

http://avidtechnology.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/avidtechnology.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=69060

Cheers
ddm wrote on 8/7/2008, 5:30 PM
If you have an hdv sequence in MC, you can output to HDV to create an m2t that vegas can read perfectly, avid will want to output it to a camera after it's done but you can cancel that and it will keep your m2t file intact. MC will do some rendering and it multiplexes the audio. I would suggest downloading the new and improved vegas dll for importing m2ts (m2tsplug.dll), with that vegas now reads the avid generated m2ts instantly, the old one used to take up to 10 minutes of disk thrashing to make sense of it, but would ultimately load.
bakerja wrote on 8/8/2008, 6:01 AM
Oh well,

I was hoping to use MC for capture and go straight to Vegas to edit. Media Composers capture tool is great but if it will require a render pass to edit in Vegas, it is not worth it.

JAB
http://www.bakerplace.net
Bill Ravens wrote on 8/8/2008, 7:15 AM
unfortunately, Avid's mxf format is not the same as sony's mxf format. I suspect mxf is just a wrapper, much like avi or QT.