DVCPRO HP CODEC Help

Psychotropic Films wrote on 2/18/2014, 12:29 PM

I'm trying to bring a DVCPRO HD file in a MOV container into Sony Vegas Pro 12 and it won't take it. Looks like I need to purchase a DVCPRO HD CODEC.

Can anyone recommend a solution through Sony or third party that they actually know works with Vegas.

I know Sony supports at some level XDCAM since I believe it's their CODEC, but for a pro video editing software package, there must be people using DVCPRO in Sony Vegas. I'm really curious why there aren't any forum posts on this topic and why Sony has downplayed this pro CODEC??

Thanks, Bart
Phoenix, AZ

Comments

musicvid10 wrote on 2/18/2014, 12:58 PM

1. Vegas Pro 12 has "Added support for reading Panasonic P2 files and browsing P2 devices with the Device Explorer window. DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO25, DVCPRO50, DVCPRO-HD, and AVC-Intra formats are supported."

If that isn't working for you, it "may" be a Quicktime issue, or you "may" need Raylight.

2. Don't use your email address as your username in any forum unless you want lots of unsolicited emails.

larry-peter wrote on 2/18/2014, 2:14 PM

I needed the same codec a while back. The only one I found was CalibatedQ DVCPro 100 codec. I think it was $75 approx.
http://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QDVCProHD.asp See if that works for you.

Edit: I was using VP11. Perhaps VP12 is meant to accept it. The file I had was .mov wrapped and this was the only codec I could find to open it with.

SecondWind-SK wrote on 2/18/2014, 4:03 PM

I've had good luck working with P2 card files using SVP 12. No problem. The files were transferred right off the P2 cards; I can't remember the file suffix. A year or so ago I used the free version of AnyVideoConverter to convert MOV files that Vegas didn't like. Can't remember what I converted them to...very high quality MP4 probably.

larry-peter wrote on 2/18/2014, 5:10 PM

The P2 files I've worked with were all .mxf wrapped. I think the OP's problem is there doesn't seem to be a QT DVCproHD codec for Windows. Another "apple only." I think either a Raylight product or the CalibratedQ codec might be necessary for his .mov .

rmack350 wrote on 2/18/2014, 5:22 PM

I use DVCPro HD mov files all the time. I'm assuming you're talking about files captured from tape using FCP or some other NLE. I use the Raylight Decoder codec found here: http://dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder/index.htm. It works just fine and isn't very expensive.

I want to stress that this is NOT the codec for media from P2 cards, this is for clips captured from tape by other NLE's. Also, Vegas has absolutely no capability of capturing from DVCPro HD tapes on it's own (unless you're capturing from an SDI source). You have to use other NLEs.

<edit>The reason you don't see a lot of talk about using Panasonic's codecs is that Panasonic and Sony never managed to come to agreements about it. Sony was a direct competitor, Adobe, Apple, and Avid didn't sell competing cameras and tape decks. So, if you were working in Panasonic-land you needed to use some other NLE that could have licensed the codecs, which in effect was "anyone but Sony". Sony has only recently added support for media from Panasonic P2 cards, but there's no native support for DVCPro50 or DVCPro HD. </edit>

Rob