Import Files captured by Premiere

Geoff Edwards wrote on 5/19/2005, 8:29 AM

I just bought Vegas 6 last week. I have a couple of projects still on my HDs that were captured by Premiere. Do I have to recapture the *.avi files to use them with Vegas 6? Or is there a work around so I can use them with the new program. For now if I try to open *.avi files captured by Premiere the audio plays but the video is blacked out.

Thanks for your input.

Geoff Edwards
www.streamworks.ca

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filmy wrote on 5/20/2005, 7:46 AM

>>>I just bought Vegas 6 last week. I have a couple of projects still on my HDs that were captured by Premiere. Do I have to recapture the *.avi files to use them with Vegas 6? Or is there a work around so I can use them with the new program. For now if I try to open *.avi files captured by Premiere the audio plays but the video is blacked out.<<<

basic answer is no you do not have to.

BUT (there is always a *but* isn't there?) The timecode info will not be available in Vegas. Vegas reads TC info from somewhere else than where Premiere does. Also Vegas does not seem to have the abilty to read TC info from "offline" rez files...DV based only. (Can not speak for HDV or HD at this moment) My siggestion would be to try anbd batch recpature with SCLive as the TC captured will read in Premiere and Vegas.

Another *but* is, based on what you say ast the end of your question, it sounds as if you used a proprietary card/codec when you captured. An example might be an old Pinnacle capture card that used a codec that could only be decoded via use of the Pinnacle card itself. If this is the case the workaround would be to re-render from Premiere to either an uncompressed format or using the MainConcept DV or DVCPro codec. One other option is DV Converter, which works very well - except you still wouldn't have TC readable by Vegas, but the file would be.

ForumAdmin wrote on 5/20/2005, 8:48 AM

If you have Pr*mi*r* Pro 1.5 you can export an AAF and Vegas can open that right up and relink to the media.

It does sound like you captured this video as something other than DV...what capture card did you use?

Geoff Edwards wrote on 5/20/2005, 11:02 AM

HI Guys,

Thanks for writing. I caputured from my DVX 100 using a Firewire card... The video is not saved using any compression. Does that provide any clues as to what my problem might be?

G.

filmy wrote on 5/22/2005, 7:00 PM

>>>I caputured from my DVX 100 using a Firewire card... The video is not saved using any compression.<<<

if you captured via firewire than it should be basic DV AVI files. You say they were saved without any compression - this puzzles me because PPro captures via firewire the same way most other apps do now - in a DV wrapper. The only way I can think off that it would save as uncompressed would be using another capture app, but even so Vegas should read uncompressed material as well.

Could you say what the steps are you used? I mean right from the start as in "I opend up Premiere pro and picked a new project. The template I choose is..." and so on. Up to the point when you capture. And I just thought - something simple here - but when you capture in PPro do you have video turned on? it is possible to capture only audio if you aren't careful.