New project to edit: media in total mess, again

megabit wrote on 8/16/2012, 3:04 AM

I'd be very grateful if someone helped me to sort it out. I was given media from one of those music events I couldn't participate in shooting personally, due to not being well at that time, so I could influence the formats, etc. Now I have material, consisting of:

- 2x EX1 cameras in HD, but im the QT wrapper
- 4 SD cameras (also MOVs)

While I can display the SD MOVs on Vegas T/L, the EX1 ones only have sound, no vision. Can I do something about it now, when the original BPAVs have long been nonexistent?

Also, the SD MOVs from the other cameras do display image, but in wrong PAR. It's necessary to change it from 1.000 to PAL Widescreen (1.43) in each clip's Properties (and there are hundreds of clips)... Is there a method of doing it for all selected clips in one operation? Perhaps some script for doing that?

Thanks in advance

Piotr

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altarvic wrote on 8/16/2012, 3:21 AM

> "Is there a method of doing it for all selected clips in one operation?"

Try the following: Set the desired aspect ratio and save it as a profile for future use (click a small diskette icon). These settings will be used whenever a file of that type is detected.

p.s. You can use Vegasaur to change PAR of all your clips (free 30 day trial)

megabit wrote on 8/16/2012, 5:12 AM

Thanks, @altarvic.

Anyone on the EX1 movs?

Piotr

rs170a wrote on 8/16/2012, 5:43 AM

Piotr, try the free XDCAM .MOV to .MXF utility from Convergent Design and see if it does the trick for you.
http://www.convergent-design.com/Products/nanoFlash/Downloads.aspx

Mike

megabit wrote on 8/16/2012, 5:49 AM

Oh - completely forgot about that one; somehow thought only the reverse is supported (mxf->mov).

Will give it a try, and report back - thanks Mike!

Piotr

rs170a wrote on 8/16/2012, 6:18 AM

Good luck with it Piotr.
I stumbled across this utility on a site for my JVC camera (HM-750U).
I have some footage that was shot for an FCP user so I recorded in MOV mode instead of my usual MP4 mode.
Needless to say, Vegas will not read the MOV files so I'm going to try this utility at work next week and see if it can do the job for me.

Mike

megabit wrote on 8/16/2012, 6:45 AM

Thanks Mike; I have a problem though - as you know, CD warns that even on 64bit systems, the Fileconverter utility will need the 32bit Java Runtime. I have it downloaded and intalled, and yet cannot launch FileConverter - a CMD window flashes for split-seconds, and that's it...

I remember some time ago it was running OK; does anybody know what I should do to enable it again? Of course, I did obvious things like clean re-install (of both the utility and Java), etc...

Piotr

rs170a wrote on 8/16/2012, 7:07 AM

Piotr, I wish I could help but, as I said, I won't be trying this utility until I get back to work next week.
Out of curiosity, have you tried rebooting?

Mike

megabit wrote on 8/16/2012, 8:28 AM

Haha - it was among those "obvious things" I tried, Mike :)

Piotr

MUTTLEY wrote on 8/16/2012, 11:02 AM

Sorry, late to the party but did I overlook which version of Vegas you're using? Early on with my old EX1 I had to use the Sony clip browser to convert files to mxf for edit, these days though I have no prob taking files from an EX1 or my current PMW-F3 and going straight to the timeline. I believe this is the link to the clip browser if you want to give it a try.

XDCAM: Downloads

In the interest of self disclosure I'm only a few sips into my first cup of coffee for the day so there's every chance in the world I may have no idea what I'm talking about.

- Ray
Underground Planet

megabit wrote on 8/16/2012, 11:43 AM

Ray,

I was given the EX1 media already converted to MOV format (someone was going to edit in Final Cut). The original media with BPAV and MP4s are long gone :(

Thanks, anyway

Piotr

MUTTLEY wrote on 8/16/2012, 11:58 AM

Ouch! Don't understand anyone deleting their BPAV, it's just hard drive space! I always keep em and archive with the project. Sorry man.

- Ray
Underground Planet