Mac DVCpro50 QT to Vegas

Jay M wrote on 11/5/2007, 8:01 PM
We have been recording our church services in DVCpro50. We record direct to disk as a QT file. We use FCP to make DVDs and our television broadcast.

Part of the workflow involves me mixing audio in Vegas.

Our Video editors barely have enough time to make one broadcast each week. We now have almost 50 sermons shot on 3 cameras that need to be made into DVDs.

My thinking is that since I am already in Vegas, I could spend a few more hours and edit a DVD at the same time.

Because the video files are quicktime I don't think Raylight will work to decode them.

My plan is to use Apple's Compressor to create some lossless codec to work in.

10-bit uncompressed will work, but the file sizes are pretty huge! For 3 cameras and a line edit, a total of 4 streams, I think I would need a fast raid array.

Is there a codec that doesn't require too much system resources to decode, and 50Mbps or so file size that can be generated on the mac and edited in Vegas?

thanks,
~Jay

Comments

Coursedesign wrote on 11/5/2007, 10:16 PM
Matrox has a DVCPro50 codec for free download, it works fine with Vegas.

Raymaker etc. at dvfilm.com may be able to help you with the FCP QT->AVI part for DVCPRO50, I haven't needed to use that.

Jay M wrote on 11/5/2007, 10:40 PM
Thanks for the reply. I have tried the Matrox codec, and I can't get it to work with QT files.

I will try Raylight to see if theirs will work.

~Jay
mvb wrote on 11/10/2007, 12:23 AM
Raylight Encoder Pro will allow you to edit and author DVCPro50 Quicktimes in Vegas,
see dvfilm.com/raylight/EncoderPro