FCP Intermediate File Problems

ryclark wrote on 8/11/2010, 3:48 AM
Customer supplied FCP file as .mov HD achp codec. On trying to load it into Vegas Pro 9e Vegas hangs. However this file loads quite happily into Movie Studio 6 on a colleague's PC. Trouble is we need to Render it as an .avi file for playback on Windows based systems and Movie Studio 6 only does consumer formats. We need to output the video to an HDCamSR system at hires. Any help gratefully received on how to get Pro 9 to load this file.

P.S. Have tried various versions of Quicktime to get a suitable codec from 7.6.4 onwards but none work.

Comments

farss wrote on 8/11/2010, 3:58 AM
I assume you mean the source file is AVCHD?
And you want to output it to HDCAM SR?

For starters I'd get the guy with the FCP system to render it out to a much better codec if you're going to spend some serious money putting it onto HDCAM SR.

I'd have also thought that VMS could render out an uncompressed AVI file.

Bob.

ryclark wrote on 8/14/2010, 9:00 AM
At the moment what format we render out too is moot since we can't even open the FCP Apple ProRes 422 HQ file in Vegas Pro 9. Media Info or Main Concept Reference tells us it uses an ahcp codec. And Vegas Movie Studio 6 can open it. :)
JohnnyRoy wrote on 8/14/2010, 9:10 AM
> ...we can't even open the FCP Apple ProRes 422 HQ file in Vegas Pro 9

The ProRes decoder ships with Quicktime. Make sure that you have the latest Quicktime on your PC and it should be able to open the file.

~jr

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ryclark wrote on 8/15/2010, 9:44 AM
Unfortunately I have and it still doesn't open, just hangs Vegas for ever. :(
rs170a wrote on 8/15/2010, 10:01 AM
...Movie Studio 6 only does consumer formats

You said you want to render it as an avi file and, as I recall, Movie Studio is capable of doing this.
DV-AVI has been a render format in all versions of Vegas since it's inception and it'll do uncompressed avi as well.

Customer supplied FCP file as .mov HD achp codec.

Never heard of this codec and a google search didn't turn up anything.
Have the client render it again using the ProRes codec.

Mike
K-Decisive wrote on 8/16/2010, 12:32 PM
If you have Quicktime pro and it actually reads the prores file, you should be able to export it from QT as something else. Huge, but jpeg 2000 should work, if you get the (free) avid dnxhd lite codec you can you that also ( this is what I usually use for intermediates ). If all else...H264 or ( yeash) uncompressed.
ryclark wrote on 8/19/2010, 9:03 AM
Had a quick play with Quicktime Pro, which does play it, but haven't found the best format to output it as. Only had time to try rerendering as another Prores HQ file, in case the original was damaged, but that didn't work.

Movie Studio 6 was on a colleagues laptop and he managed to render as DVavi but we needed somewhat higher quality. So don't know what else it could have done.

However the main point is that MS6 managed to open the file OK on a low power laptop but Vegas Pro 9.0e just hung on a much higher spec PC when attempting the same feat :( That's the big mystery.
ryclark wrote on 9/10/2010, 9:58 AM
Problem sorted. It was an early version of FFDShow codecs installed that highjacked Vegas's call to the Quicktime Apple ProRes codec. Uninstalled FFDShow and Vegas is now happy importing Apple ProRes files.