DR60 transfer mt2 clips into Vegas 7

rstrong wrote on 4/16/2008, 10:57 AM

I am new to this, and was wondering what is the fastest way of transferring the mt2 clips into Vegas 7. I have tried the ' Import from Hard Disk Recording Unit ' which takes a long time, and also from the Explorer tab, which seems to allow for only one clip at a time. Is there a way to transfer all the clips from the Explorer tab at one time? I haven't seen any info on what is the fastest or most preferred.
Thanks,
robert

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megabit wrote on 4/16/2008, 12:09 PM

Robert,

Using the ' Import from Hard Disk Recording Unit ' option allows to stitch back together the chunks, created either by DR60's cache recording, or imposed by its FAT32 4GB filesize limit. The caveat being that you cannot choose individual clips - it will always import the whole disk contents (or, in case of mixed formats, all HDV or all DV clips - depending on your choice). Meging these fragments manually will never be seamless.

Unfortunately, I had some problems with this mechanism; the single clip produced by Vegas from several files (including the cache one) was often corrupted. I opened a ticket with SCS support on this, but they never actually resolved the issue - I have sold both the V1E camera and the DR60 drive in the meantime...

bruceo wrote on 4/16/2008, 7:35 PM

Same experience as megabit. I am finding that the DR60 and new sony CF unit that comes with the Z7 cams create m2ts that often have something in them that Vegas does not like and crashes Vegas, which for full projects SONY Vegas pretty much renders these SONY recorders useless. The m2ts play great in media player and great in the Vegas media pool preview, but crash when you put them on hte timeline and the thumnailing or playhead hits the part of the m2t that Vegas cant handle....

Laurence wrote on 4/16/2008, 7:52 PM

I use http://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_fr_EU&contentId=1198162909729this utility [/link]which is free from Sony.

megabit wrote on 4/17/2008, 3:30 AM

Yes I should have mentioned it - the utility works flawlessly, and merges seamless m2t's to be used in any NLE, not just Vegas, without any problems. I will never understnad why SCS wouldn't adopt the algorithm behind it into Vegas, being Sony!

bruceo wrote on 4/17/2008, 9:04 AM

only m2t's that have been split by the fat32 limitation. It would be great if they made it stitch all clips together in sequential order. Vegas need this badly as it currently sucks horribly when presented with a large number of M2t source files