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Spot|DSE wrote on 5/7/2006, 2:44 PM
Vegas currently only supports SD XDCAM, not HD. At NAB, there were Sony folks talking about how XDCAM HD support will likely be in a future version of Vegas, but not at current time.
Coursedesign wrote on 5/7/2006, 3:21 PM



That would be Final Cut Pro, Apple even had an XDCAM HD hooked up in their booth at NAB, showing the editing.

The XDCAM HD cameras really really impressed me.

And our old Vegas friend Tim Duncan tested the PDW-F530 against the Varicam, found the Sony keyed better(!), had the same pleasing color rendition, and had much better sharpness and lower noise. It is also very robust, as evidenced a demo with it working away inside a glass-doored freezer set to 0F, and real-life experience at Iditarod. And the XDCAM disks are great for archiving.

I was initially very interested in the Grass Valley Infinity, but have since seen many little signs that it will be a while before this is ready for prime time. Tough.
winrockpost wrote on 5/7/2006, 3:34 PM
..........................That would be Final Cut Pro

ouch,, pretty strange this sony corp. i realize they have diviisions out the @%^ but ,,, you, i mean i would think that the pro cam division or broadcast or whatever the xdcam falls under would at least have an idea Vegas is out there to run on the laptop referred to. the laptop is probably not sony either. Duh, its an apple.
rs170a wrote on 5/7/2006, 4:02 PM
On another Vegas forum, one of our Aussie friends said:

We attended the release of the Sony XDCam HD cameras here in Sydney. During the course of the day they showed us a Power Point slide show which mentioned that Vegas 7 would be released in Sept and would support the XDCam HD series. Would have FAM (file access mode) over firewire for these cameras and support the 18 and 35 Mbps VBR modes of XDCam HD. Plus obviously the 25 Mbps FBR mode which makes it compatible with HDV from Sony as we know it. It was also suggested that Vegas would most likely support the 'proxy video' that is recorded concurrently with the high rez video on the HD cams using Blu-Ray. Allowing editing of the proxy material and then conforming when finished using the hi res XDCam HD footage. A bit like using intermediary files in HDV editing I guess. They also stated that there were a couple of Sony Media software engineers over in Japan working with the camera factories to develop much tighter integration between Vegas and new Sony camera hardware. No mention of 10 bit though.

Mike