HDV issues

cchoy wrote on 1/18/2009, 11:45 PM

There is a whole lot of footage that people have captured into final cut, and turned into MOVs. Footage was shot on a Sony V1u in HDV and captured using Final Cut. They provided the footage to me on an external harddrive in the form of many MOVs. VLC has no problem playing the picture, but Vegas 8 only shows me audio tracks. Quicktime Pro for PC seems to crash when opening the files. Any ideas on how to get Vegas to play these files? Will cineform do it?

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ushere wrote on 1/19/2009, 1:04 AM

check your version of qt. there's some articles about 'older' versions not working in vegas.

farss wrote on 1/19/2009, 1:47 AM

"Will cineform do it?"

Yes.
But check this very carefully. I think you need to get the files rendered from the Mac into CF QT and then CF on a PC can open the files. CF from memory seem to allow you an install on a Mac and a PC under the one licence.

Also the BMD YUV codec out of a MAC is compatible with the Sony YUV codec that comes with Vegas. Well it was last time I tried this.File size for HD even at 8 bit will be pretty huge but what's a 1TB drive cost these days.

Bob.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/19/2009, 6:49 AM

Find out what codec they used to produce the MOV file. It may be Apple ProRes in which case you need to download the decoder for the PC.

~jr

cchoy wrote on 1/19/2009, 7:56 AM

Bob-

I don't quite understand the response... I don't have cineform. I think that the people told me that they just imported using standard HDV 1080 60i settings.

I'm very new to the video realm, so do you think you could simplify the answer? Or hit me with some more layman terms/suggestions. Any ideas why VLC is okay but quicktime is crashing with the MOVs?

Johnny- where can I get said decoder?

Thanks!

--Cory

Former user wrote on 1/19/2009, 8:11 AM

http://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Windows

corug7 wrote on 1/19/2009, 8:30 AM

They may be the actual Quicktime wrapped HDV MPEG-2 streams. A quick check of the clip properties should tell you what codec they are using (right click the video and check under "Properties." Quicktime wrapped MPEG-2 doesn't open in Vegas, even with the Pro version of Quicktime installed. I don't know if it will open with the Quicktime MPEG-2 decoder installed, but it'll cost you $20 to find out (or someone else who knows can chime in), as Apple sells it separately from the QT Pro package.

EDIT: Sorry, just read that the video won't open on the timeline. If it will open in VLC, check under View>Stream and Media Info>Advanced Information. That should tell you what type of stream it is.

cchoy wrote on 1/19/2009, 9:02 AM

According to quicktime (which isn't showing picture)
the format of the video stream is
just HDV1080i60

VLC says that the codec
is mpgv

does this help?

*UPDATE*
*UPDATE*
Very excited!

I went here:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=53069&p=173576#p173576
and that definitely worked, but am I compromising image quality? What should my project settings be?

cchoy wrote on 1/19/2009, 9:59 AM

Okay, now the footage is inside of Vegas as a .mov
wrapped as an MPG2 at 1440 x 1080

HOWEVER, the timeline is moving so slowly that I can't even see a crossfade in the preview window. Any ideas about how to fix this without compromising video quality/taking FOREVER to convert everything?