If by D1 you are referring to MPEG2 video at 720x480 (D1 NTSC DVD resolution) then yes, Vegas will let you open and edit these files. D2 also works (352x480), as does I suppose any MPEG2 resolution.

I have only dealt with a few files that i have had to edit that were already in this highly compressed format, but I have not noticed any sync issues which are often a problem when dealing with MPEG2 video, particularly the VBR ones. Typically, all the video I deal with is in DV, MJPEG, or HuffYUV.

I was pretty sure D1 was the UNCOMPRESSED standard for video. I didnt think D1 and MPEG2 had anything in common, am I mistaken?

D1 is an uncompressed component format recorded on a 3/4" cassette, but it's fairly rare, very expensive high-end stuff. It normally outputs to SDI, not firewire, so you'd need some extra hardware to get it into Vegas.

Finster is correct. D1 is component digital. It is not really a 3/4 inch cassette- but a proprietary size and format. Vegas is a DV format- compressed. The Sony D1 machine runs $126K and not likely to be used in conjunction with the DV format. The format runs serial digital and parallel digital. Why would you want to run D1 into Vegas- not what it is intended for??

This is 4:2:2 uncompressed 601, usually captured via SDI connections. If you have a way of capturing it and laying it back to tape, Vegas can edit it using the "Component Video - CCIR-601 uyvy" codec in QuickTime. I've done it myself.
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But the real question I have SonicDennis- is what will vegas output to tape? Certainly not uncompressed 601- especially using the hard drive formats and capture cards the majority of VV users...use. Arn't we being a little missleading here??

Nobody is implying that uncompressed is going to be sent over 1394. You absolutely DO need to have the right hardware setup. If you have a Matrox Digisuite and the required RAIDs for example, you can capture with the matrox capture app, open the files in Vegas, edit, mix etc, and render back to uncompressed, then use the matrox tool to insert edit back to tape. So yes, other tools are needed if you want to work with uncompressed D1, but at no time in this process is the footage converted to 4:1:1 (NTSC DV colorspace).

FWIW, if it helps & all that...

I think of Vegas as a powerful tool or toolset that will edit &/or sculpt whatever it is you feed it, be it audio or video streams. If you have video on your drive(s), and the necessary codecs etc. to work with that video, don't think Vegas much cares one way or another what flavor the video happens to be - Vegas works with the video stream itself with the codec software acting as a translator or filter to serve the stream to Vegas, and recieve it on render if that's your choice. Vegas has some filters built in, like the DV codec, But I don't think that should label Vegas in anyone's thinking as a DV app. As long as you can feed it video that it can understand through using whatever codec/filter, Vegas will generaly be pretty happy IMO.

Whilst some scenarios may be less common, doesn't at all make them unrealistic.

SonicEPM,

Can DVCPRO50 footage be captured to an IDE drive? Or would a faster SCSI drive be necessary?

Scott

DVCPro50 could be used with IDE drives if your system is well-tweaked. You will need other tools besides Vegas to capture and print, external monitor from the timeline is not supported, you need to get the codec from somewhere (Matrox is a good choice; free)...anyway this format, like uncompressed, CAN be used in Vegas, but we don't have an end to end solution for it at this time.