Rendering with Cineform Prospect 2K

dirtynbl wrote on 7/10/2008, 12:40 PM

I am Using Cineform Prospect 2k. I can render out a cineform avi in after effects but the HDV Vegas options to render no longer work. Have any of you had this problem or know a way around it?

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farss wrote on 7/10/2008, 3:41 PM

As far as I know Prospect2K will not work in Vegas, Vegas seems to be the limiting factor. I'm not too certain what you can render out of AE that will not loose data that Vegas can open. DPX doesn't work in Vegas, 16 bit tiff sequences might be one way to go although Vegas and tiffs aren't the best of friends.
A few more details would help, like what is it you started with in AE.

Bob.

dirtynbl wrote on 7/11/2008, 12:45 PM

Prospect2k files rendered in After Effects load beautifully into Vegas. I'm sorry I wasn clear before, its not an editing problem, but a rendering one. I thought Prospect2k was a wonderful solution to rendering Uncompressed AVI's out of After Effects, but it seems theres a catch.

The problem is that once I installed Prospect2k and was able to render Cineform AVI's out of After Effects, Cineform stopped working as a render option in Vegas...ie, I can no longer render intermediate HDV files with Vegas, I get the dialog box that it is "Not licensed for Cineform HD encoding. Please visit www.CineForm.comto purchase your upgrade."

farss wrote on 7/11/2008, 4:49 PM

You may have a conflict between remnants of the free CF codec that comes with Vegas and the Prospect2K licencing.
Have you tried raising a trouble ticket with CF themselves?

I did have a problem with DVDA after installing Prospect2K, it'd crash as soon as I tried to open it. I traced the problem to a dll that CF install for the AJA cards. Seeing as how I don't use the AJA cards I renamed the dll and all is sweet.

I'd also check with Cineform to find out how well P2K is working with Vegas 8. It'd be very good news indeed if Vegas is reading the full 10bit data from P2K into its 32bit pipeline. I only use P2K with RAW files which doesn't actually work with Vegas, it looks like it works even with WMP due to how the decoder works but what you end up with is not the full res, full bit depth decode.

Bob.

jwcarney wrote on 8/1/2008, 9:08 AM

Until Vegas supports Directshow, only Neo works with Vegas in 8bit mode.