Final cut to Vegas

dvideo2 wrote on 8/4/2009, 11:03 AM

to preserve qualitiy and to mantain compatibility, I'm wondering might format might easily be exported from final cut and re-imported into Vegas 9......Some formats don't give the best quality, and some seem to be completely uncompatable.
Any suggestions?
Thank you

Comments

Cheno wrote on 8/4/2009, 11:09 AM

ProRes is my fav and a QT ProRes reader is available for PC - you can't get this out of a PC and back into FCP this way though.

Other option is uncompressed QT but they're huge and taxing on either system unless you've got hardware support.

cheno

PerroneFord wrote on 8/4/2009, 2:24 PM

ProRes or Avid's DNxHD. Both quality enough for major feature movies.

Laurence wrote on 8/4/2009, 2:34 PM

mxf xdcam can work with a FCP plugin. That is another option.

PerroneFord wrote on 8/4/2009, 8:31 PM

It's kinda lossy and mxf is a compatibility crapshoot.

Coursedesign wrote on 8/4/2009, 8:52 PM

SheerVideo is another cross-platform codec option that has several advantages (excellent Y'CbCr-RGB mapping amongst them).

fausseplanete wrote on 8/5/2009, 5:25 AM

Or indeed the venerable Cineform "visually lossess" codec, I use the "NeoHD" version. Care is needed over whether conversion is needed between MOV <-> AVI. Wonder if any clever little on-the-fly AVI->MOV frameserver apps exist. Had good experience with Prores422 for Mac->PC.