Canon 5D MK2 and Vegas 8.0

MattWright wrote on 12/3/2008, 7:32 AM
Hi There.

I just got my 5D, and first off WOW, it is amazing, the quality is absolutely jaw dropping.

Anyway, my issue and I don't know if anyone can help, but basically the camera records to h264 .MOV files, which I can import into Vegas 8.0c (8.1 doesn't work with these files) ,but after importing say 5 - 10 smallish clips of 1 minute each, my system freezes, the memory reading in task manager goes upto around 1.6 GB, and poof, there goes the system. This is only happening with these files, I don't really use Quicktime files that much in my normal edits.

So my question is any advice ?, or is there a way to manage the Quicktime h264 codec, or any advice of software for batch converting all the files to something that Vegas prefers.

Many Thanks

Matt

Comments

TheHappyFriar wrote on 12/3/2008, 7:45 AM
you could use super media converter to get them all to AVI/mpeg-2 files (HD, right?). That could help.
willlisub wrote on 12/3/2008, 8:44 PM
I also got my camera last friday. It's everything I hoped it would be. Even though we don't have manual mode, the video is excellent and the low light outstanding. Takes some practice holding the 35 mm camera for video. I'm beyond happy. I shot some video at f2.0 with no light at 30 minutes after sunup on a cloudy day and got about a 6"' depth of field on 50mm lens. Better than any video camera I've ever owned. Max recording so far has been 13 minutes on the 4gb file limit.

Did find out that once I lock down live mode for video shooting, I can move the exposure up and down while video taping.

I haven't done anything large regarding editing in Vegas, but have been importing the the .mov mp4 files into 8.0c vegas without any problems.

I have noticed that my quad core computers don't play back the footage very smoothly in qt player or Vegas.

I have two dell 2.4 core workstation and a dell laptop that also doesn't play back the files real smoothly. My other computer is a macbook 2.1 or 2.2 and it plays them back fine under OS X but so so under windows XP in boot camp.

I'm guessing it has something to do with quicktime on the PC. CPU's and hard drive are barely working when playing back the quicktime files. but they don't play back smoothly.

The playback onto a 46 1080p monitor is gorgeous and smooth.

I've been trying out some different codecs for an intermediate format, but haven't found anything to hang my hat on yet.

What speed computer are you editing on? Let us know if you find something that works well in vegas.

Only real disappointment I've had so far is that can't record in live mode to an HDMI port. They shrink the image during record mode. The manual says only hook the HDMI port to a monitor, but I'm considering hooking into my Black Magic Intensity. That would do a real time transfer to mjpeg files that would be my intermediate. Just haven't got the guts to try it so far.

fyi. I have successfully used a Sandisk extreme III 8gb CF card and a 133x Kingston 16 GB card.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 12/3/2008, 10:18 PM
My guess is that cineform probably has a good solution or will in the near future since this is a potential market for them.

Dave