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John222 wrote on 11/27/2014, 11:20 AM
Just did some more playing around and found that if video levels are above 100 when you render to DNxHD the resulting .mov file will overdrive and pixelate those areas above 100. If I use the brightness and contrast tool in vegas the bring the brightness down it works fine. But there's got to be a better way. Anybody know a better way to go from .mts to some intermediate file acceptable to Fusion.
Marc S wrote on 11/27/2014, 12:07 PM
Have you tried Sony XDCAM or Sony MXF HD422?

I have found those to be one of the few formats rendered from Vegas that comes into Premiere with proper video levels.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/27/2014, 3:04 PM
I've always found CineForm to be a great Digital Intermediary between Vegas Pro and After Effects. It might be the same for Fusion. The encoder is now free when you download GoPro Studio. Have you tried that?

~jr
John222 wrote on 11/27/2014, 4:44 PM
I gave XDCAM a try and it didn't work. I'll try cineform tomorrow.
larry-peter wrote on 11/27/2014, 8:46 PM
I haven't had the opportunity to play with the new version much, but in the past, Fusion was picky about accepting only intraframe compressed files. Temporal compression, as in anything MPEG4 based, is probably still a no-no. In my first few tests I was using Lagarith AVIs which worked great straight out of Vegas.
deusx wrote on 11/27/2014, 9:07 PM
I'm afraid fusion won't accept cineform either. I haven't tried it in a while, but they used to have a $400 plugin just for importing cineform files. mp4 from Vegas worked for me, but obviously you want to find something that preserves the quality as much as possible. What usually works the best especially on shorter projects is .an uncompressed bmp image sequence.
John222 wrote on 11/27/2014, 10:34 PM
Just tried CineForm with Fusion 7.5 and it works. It took me a while to get it installed on Vegas Pro 11. I had to find the old GoPro Studio Version 1.1.2.100. The newer version of GoPro must contain the decode only Version of CineForm. I also tried Lagarith AVIs and they also work well.

Thanks,
John
Serena Steuart wrote on 11/27/2014, 10:43 PM
My understanding is that Fusion accepts avi and mov files, only.
John222 wrote on 11/27/2014, 11:11 PM
I've found it does very well with both CineForm & Lagarith AVI's. But not very good with DNxHD .mov's. With the DNxHD files you're got to use Vegas to preadjust the brightness level below 100 or those areas will be a colored pixelated mess.



It doesn't do this with CinePak, but I believe that's an old 32 bit codec.
deusx wrote on 11/28/2014, 5:55 AM
>>>My understanding is that Fusion accepts avi and mov files, only<<<

It ingests a lot of formats, 1/2 of which I don't even know what they are. Lot of image ( sequence ) formats, raw files from Canons, Arri, Red cameras etc.... Will accept some mpg.

Anyway if it now accepts cineform .avi that may be a good solution.