.dv file from a Mac opened in Vegas with offset audio

theigloo wrote on 7/14/2003, 4:56 PM

Hi all,

I'm trying to help a buddy out who's spent a lot of time editing a movie on his Mac. Everything has gone well but as we all know, Macs can't render video worht a cr@p unless it's to quicktime.

So I've sold him on the idea of bringing in the .dv file into Vegas and rendering it there.(a .dv is similar to a .avi - same quality - just quicktime's version of it.)

When the .dv files is dropped on the timeline, the audio is clipping really bad and it's offset. Does anyone know how to get around this? I'm guessing Vegas is reading the file wrong.

Thanks in advance,

Matt

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filmy wrote on 7/14/2003, 9:29 PM

Dunno if it would work but you could try to open it with Quicktime for Windows and than re-save it and see if that solves the issue. You can re-save it as a DV file or as a DV/AVI file *or* an uncompressed AVI. If that does not do it you could try Procoder or Cleaner XL and see if that would work...although it still seems like a long work around.

In the 'old days' if you wanted to have a Quick Time file play on a PC that was made on a Mac you had to strip out the header info, I don't think you have to do that anymore. I believe around QT 3 there used to be an option on the MAC when you saved that was something like "Make playable on window platform" or something. Than there was some external program the took out the mac header. I could never get it work right - i didn't have much faith in QT until maybe version 4 and then 5 really peaked my intrest. (Still waiting for the built in Time Code Window burn / OCR > EDL function to come to the Windows side)

mikkie wrote on 7/15/2003, 8:41 AM

Adding a bit of trivia most likely to what filmy posted, think the header thing has to do with branching. If the idea of exporting from Q/Time in windows doesn't work, how 'bout separating the streams and importing them separately? Optionally this would perhaps allow for some conversion of the audio if nec.

theigloo wrote on 7/15/2003, 11:19 AM

Thanks guys,

Forgot to mention that the .dv quicktime file played perfectly in Quicktime on the PC. So it was something Vegas was doing on import. Filmy, did you mean you can just do a "save as..." on the .dv to make it an .avi? That would almost be magic.

But to fix the immediate problem, we got Final Cut to render it as a .avi and it worked perfectly. The import of the .avi into Vegas was flawless.

I'm not sure if this is a case of Apple writting better software than SF or if QT is just more complex than the .avi standard. Either way, we got it to work.

Thanks again for your input.

Matt