nanoflash and vegas pro

dougs wrote on 4/29/2010, 3:53 AM

I have a sony dsr450 and at the moment am happy working in SD but am interested in a tapeless workflow, and so considering a nanoflash. Obviously with the 450 i am working with DV which works reasonbly efficiently on my i7 laptop. From what i can see the nanoflash SD file is a 30mbps or 50 mbps MXF file. Will this file be more difficult to work with in vegas compared to DV ie.. slower previews? Does the vegas pro / nanoflash combination work ok? In particular single long clips ok? i do allot of conference recording. I am running vegas pro9d on a sony i7 laptop 6g ram, esata external HD for media.

Thanks for any input.

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megabit wrote on 4/29/2010, 4:56 AM

I'm using nanoFlash with my EX1 camera, and usually record HD on both. However, sometimes (depending on the planned delivery) I set the SDI output to SD (squeeze), and record on the nanoFlash in IMX 50 Mbps format (long-GOP).

Putting such IMX file on Vegas timeline is no problem at all (while the HD long-GOP clips do have a couple of green frames at the beginning, and HD I-frame have random black frames).

So, you should have no problems editing IMX SD from the nanoFlash. As to the playback speed etc, I really don't see much difference as compared to DV (on my 64bit system with 3.0GHz quad).

dougs wrote on 4/29/2010, 3:55 PM

sounds all good, many thanks for your response.