Can a Vegas AVI be read by Final Cut

ecoman wrote on 4/8/2004, 9:26 PM

Does any one know if a Vegas . AVI file can be read by Final Cut Pro or I-movie or by Premiere on a Mac.....
I got some dynamite political video I want to trade with some Mac Folks in Calif .... Macs are more numerous in that part of the world ...
any knowledge would be much appreciated....
EcoMan

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/8/2004, 9:50 PM

It should be ablle to be read in anything that accepts DV AVI files. I've use Vegas AVI's in Premiere 6 many times. FCP not sure...

Cheno wrote on 4/8/2004, 9:54 PM

If it's a rendered Vegas .avi, no problem. I have run into issues where raw captured media (captured in Vegas) has had difficulties playing back on a Mac. If I have a commercial or rendered project, FCP has always read the .avi

Mike

ecoman wrote on 4/8/2004, 9:54 PM

Was it Premiere on a Mac or Premiere on a PC..
thanks

ecoman wrote on 4/8/2004, 10:00 PM

hi Cheno thanks for your post ....
after a capture and an edit with effects or what not you then render the mix down to a Vegas Microsoft AVI and hop it onto Final Cut's time line and the file will play with lip sync & everything.... does it work well....????

TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/9/2004, 6:17 AM

Pc platform. Mac's dont have many games, don't run Vegas, and are more expensive then PC's, so i've never owned one (although I used a couple in college, but prefered SGI's). However, I have used PC files in a mac before (ie lightwave, photoshop) and there was no problems.

farss wrote on 4/9/2004, 8:31 AM

I think but not 100% certain that the earlier incantations of FCP couldn't read AVI, only MOVs. Certainly though I've given AVIs to people with recent FCP systems and they've had no problems reading them as I've had no problems reading files from FCP.
It'd be a sad day if they couldn't get that basic a level of interoperablility.
Now if only PCs could mount HFS+ volumes or MACs mount NTFS volumes we'd have a chance for peace on earth.

B_JM wrote on 4/9/2004, 9:04 AM

FCP reads DV files just fine .. if its JUST a straight capture - i run it through v-dub and split it to 2gig file size and recompress with main concept dv codec ... total compatibilty ...

i have done over 16-20 hours worth of raw dv (a complete dicovery channel series, captured from Beta SP) this way , burning the avi's onto dvd's as data for archive purposes and further editing in fcp on a laptop ..