P-2 Cards & Quicktime Movie Files

FlashGordon wrote on 3/21/2009, 3:13 PM
I've been working since November on my 'Rockumentary' about my band The Pundits. I've been shooting a lot of video with my Sony TRV-18 and capturing that video through a Texas Instrument 1394 Firewire Host Controller. I have also been extracting audio from CDs recorded on a hard disk recorder (Akai DPS16) to improve the sound on the songs themselves. I hired a pro to shoot the gig itself and he uses a Panasonic HVX200 with P2 cards which happen to fit right in the slot in my Sonica computer where the TI1394 slides in. The computer recognizes the P2 card but doesn't allow me to get the files from it. Should Vegas be able to get files from a P2 card and if so how do I configure it to do so? He mentioned before he loads his cards into his Mac & Final Cut he has to set the computer to accept 720 x 24. Any ideas how I can get the video that he shot from those P2 cards? His next thought was burning them to a disc after he loaded them into Final Cut which he did. I tried to load them and had to first install Quicktime and then when I had Quicktime loaded I could put the files in the "Project Media" bin but when I try to drag them into my Vegas timeline all I get is the audio and he suspects it's because they are a much higher resolution and I am not set up to receive such resolution. That doesn't quite make sense since Vegas 8.0 is supposed to be able to create Blue-Ray discs which are high resolution are they not? Maybe it's because I needed to set the settings from the beginning for higher resolution files? Any help would be welcome as to how to get his high quality video into my Vegas project without too much loss of generations (ie burning them to a DVD as a movie and then playing the movie & capturing through the fire wire).

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rs170a wrote on 3/21/2009, 3:47 PM
I believe that you need to use Raylight from DV Films to be able to get those files into Vegas.

Mike
kairosmatt wrote on 3/21/2009, 5:06 PM
There are several Raylight products. To edit DVCProHD Quicktimes you will need the Raylight Encoder Pro.

If you are going to get the MXF files off the P2 cards you would need Raylight Ultra.

cheers
kairosmatt
FlashGordon wrote on 3/22/2009, 10:15 AM
When I just try and play these Quicktime movies F$%#ing Quicktime sends me to the web that lists their "third-party component page" & they list the following. 1. CC 2. DivX 3. Xvid 4. ZyGo 5. Streambox 6. Autodesk 7. Sheer Video 8. QSX 9. Audio Visualizations 10. EnSharpen 11. Redcode Raw.
Nothing that says "DV Films". When I go to dvfilms.com it looks like a movie production firm but I don't see anything about programs that I can download or anything about "Raylight". Is all this messing with Apple compatible programs safe?

I just did a search for Raylight Encoder Pro and it did indeed take me to a DVFilm site where they are selling the program for $150. Anyone know of free versions out there?
rmack350 wrote on 3/22/2009, 12:44 PM
To the best of my knowledge you have to pay to play with Panasonic's codecs. This is built into the price with FCP and PPro but not with Vegas. Furthermore, SCS has never managed to get licenses with Panasonic to support their several flavors of DVCPro, which is why you need a third party codec like Raylight. They evidently pay Panasonic for the license.

I don't know if this is still true but it used to be that FCP would manage to create DVCProHD files that couldn't be read outside of FCP. Another insult to add to the general injury.

Rob Mack