HDV and VEAGS 4?

mhbstevens wrote on 9/17/2004, 2:45 PM

The first impressions of the SONY HDR-FX1 make me think this will be my next camera. Will I be able to use this cameras output with my VEAGS 4? Maybe a plug-in to allow this?

I have only recently got VEAGAS 4e and will not be up to buying VEGAS 5 or 6.

Mike

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rextilleon wrote on 9/17/2004, 5:30 PM

There is no doubt that Vegas will support HDV--no doubt in my mind.

busterkeaton wrote on 9/17/2004, 6:50 PM

My guess is that when the camera makes its actual debut Sony will have a big announcement that Vegas is up and ready to work with it.

EDIT: I see you are asking about Vegas 4. I have no clue what Vegas 4 will support.

Are you ready to spend a few grand on a camera and not upgrade to Vegas 5? Is this because you would choose something else or you just don't like Vegas 5?

Wolfgang S. wrote on 9/18/2004, 4:50 AM

At the moment, my impression is not that Vegas is well prepared to cut mepg-2, especially not in the high resolution required for HD. If you cut an mepg-2 file, you have to render the whole file again. Have a look to Edius, womble or even Pinnacle Studio - no rendering is required only for a hard cut.

I hope that this will be improved, but at the moment Vegas-4/-5 seems to be optimised for DV-avi.

Would be nice to hear from Sony what will happen here.

jaegersing wrote on 9/18/2004, 6:55 PM

"Have a look to Edius, womble or even Pinnacle Studio - no rendering is required only for a hard cut."

I have Edius 2.5, and don't see any way to export an MPEG file without rendering. There is a direct DV format output, but apart from that, the main export function is using Procoder, which renders everything (even if the input and output formats are the same). Are you absolutely sure about this statement? (If so, please let me know how to do it, because I have been looking for this too.)

Richard Hunter