Pleased to report Vegas Pro 8 seems to work fine with this unit.
However if you've got long recordings that the unit has split over multiple files you really want to use the Import Hard Disk function. Just dragging the files onto T/L will leave a glitch in vision and audio at the join. Vegas joins the files into one m2t file which as far as I can see is glitch free, I loaded both the split files and the joined one onto the T/L to precisely find the join.
I haven't tried the alternative file concatenation utility from Sony as something in its notes worries me. It says will only work with files in FAT32 format and I've already dumped the files onto NTFS disks. Hopefully what Sony meant to say was 'will not work with HFS disks' as I cannot see how the disk FAT32/NTFS format should matter.
After all this messing around I really have to question the supposed speed of the tapeless workflow thingy. Copying the files off the DR60 is around 4x RT, backup that somewhere else, in my case a networked drive, still around 4x RT, copy that to a local 1394 disk, around 4x RT and then let Vegas join the files, again 4x RT. In the end I must be close to it taking about as long as capturing from tape. Still, faster disks and networks would speed this up and I am being very cautious making three backups.
Now one question lingers, what are the .IDX files that Vegas creates?
OK, sorry another question, bit more OT this time. Anyone know of a RAID 1 disk system where one can separate the disks and they become two usable disks? Seems to me this would be a hot item with cameras like the EX1 coming along.
Bob.
However if you've got long recordings that the unit has split over multiple files you really want to use the Import Hard Disk function. Just dragging the files onto T/L will leave a glitch in vision and audio at the join. Vegas joins the files into one m2t file which as far as I can see is glitch free, I loaded both the split files and the joined one onto the T/L to precisely find the join.
I haven't tried the alternative file concatenation utility from Sony as something in its notes worries me. It says will only work with files in FAT32 format and I've already dumped the files onto NTFS disks. Hopefully what Sony meant to say was 'will not work with HFS disks' as I cannot see how the disk FAT32/NTFS format should matter.
After all this messing around I really have to question the supposed speed of the tapeless workflow thingy. Copying the files off the DR60 is around 4x RT, backup that somewhere else, in my case a networked drive, still around 4x RT, copy that to a local 1394 disk, around 4x RT and then let Vegas join the files, again 4x RT. In the end I must be close to it taking about as long as capturing from tape. Still, faster disks and networks would speed this up and I am being very cautious making three backups.
Now one question lingers, what are the .IDX files that Vegas creates?
OK, sorry another question, bit more OT this time. Anyone know of a RAID 1 disk system where one can separate the disks and they become two usable disks? Seems to me this would be a hot item with cameras like the EX1 coming along.
Bob.