HVX200 to Final Cut to Vegas

rs170a wrote on 7/28/2008, 11:51 AM
I was asked this by a Mac user and, since I've never worked with footage from this camera, thought it was time to ask the experts here.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

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Here's his question:

A local rental house sent us a Panasonic HVX200 that was used by a lady to shoot her wedding . All of the footage is on a Firestore FS100 .
We use Final Cut in-house here so putting the footage on that is not problem ... however, here's the situation.
The lady wants to keep the footage in HD because she wants to edit it in HD. Her brother has Vegas. Any tips on the best mthod to transfer the footage to a medium that would allow her to ingest it into Vegas?
I'm thinking that I'm going to need to suggest to her that we can dump everything onto a portable 160G hard-drive and send it to her but I want to make sure that it will be Vegas-friendly.
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Mike

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kairosmatt wrote on 7/28/2008, 3:05 PM
If you just copy the files to an external harddrive, then the lady's brother will need a 3rd party codec to edit the dvcproHD. Raylight is a good one:
http://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/index.htm

If you import into Final Cut first, I believe that it gets a Quicktime wrapper, and she and her brother would need the raylight decoder:

http://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/decoder/index.htm

kairosmatt
rs170a wrote on 7/28/2008, 6:23 PM
Thanks for the info Matt.
I'll pass your recommendations and links along.

Mike
michaelshive wrote on 7/28/2008, 7:23 PM
If it is going to be edited in Vegas do everyone a huge favor and do not take it into Final Cut. Purchase Raylight for Vegas and save a lot of hassle.
Former user wrote on 7/29/2008, 6:17 AM
"I'm thinking that I'm going to need to suggest to her that we can dump everything onto a portable 160G hard-drive and send it to her but I want to make sure that it will be Vegas-friendly."

If the files are over 4 gig each, you need to dump to an NTFS Windows drive. Macs cannot write to an NTFS drive and Windows cannot read a Mac Drive. You can use a FAT32 drive for both, but the files are limited to 4 gig each in size.

Dave T2
rs170a wrote on 7/29/2008, 6:29 AM
...Windows cannot read a Mac Drive

If she gets MacDrive, she can.
I bought it a year ago and have no problems reading 20 gig files recorded using FCP.

Mike
Former user wrote on 7/29/2008, 6:33 AM
Mike,

Correct on that. I guess I should have said that Windows cannot natively read a mac drive. You need a 3rd party app.

Dave T2
rs170a wrote on 7/29/2008, 6:38 AM
Thanks Dave.
As I said, MacDrive has been a real timesaver for me.
I do a few events each year with a Mac-based system and now I just drag and drop.

Mike
Former user wrote on 7/29/2008, 6:41 AM
Mike,

I have a question about MacDrive. Is it a resident program, or do you just activate it when you have a Mac drive connected?

Dave T2
rs170a wrote on 7/29/2008, 6:46 AM
I installed it on my computer and, whenever I plug in a Mac-formatted drive (or CD, jump drive, etc.), my computer sees it as just another drive.
I can also format a drive in Mac mode if I need to.

Mike
Former user wrote on 7/29/2008, 6:46 AM
Thanks.

Dave T2