thanks much...it was searching for a file...possibe frag issues

by the way...you are in the loop...why no HVX 200 support?

I don't know why the specifics of why no HVX support, other than my own assumptions.
Panasonic has made the cost of the SDK prohibitive based on conversations with product managers of various software applications.
It's been suggested that DVCProHD is a developmentally dead format. And should be, given that DV is 14+ years old in terms of dev. Now Panasonic has announced their move in the AVC-HD direction which like DV's origin, is currently a consumer-only format. That doesn't mean AVC HD won't become professional, just that in its beginning like most other formats, its initial outing is a consumer format at this time. Betamax begat Betacam, Betacam SP, Beta ED, Digital Betacam, etc.
VHS begat M-I, M-II, S-VHS,
DV begat DVCAM, DVCPRO (all flavors), Digital-S, Digital-8

It'll be a long while until computing horsepower can allow mpeg 4 to be a viable editing/acquisiiton solution, but it will indeed be coming; I've recently experienced MPEG 4 on a very fast computer, and it's not a pleasant moment. And that's at only 12Mbps!

Vegas has never directly supported DVCPro in any format whether it was Sony or Sonic Foundry, so it seems a bit odd that it's become a point of contention over one camera.

Given the choice of Vegas having fewer options and HVX, or Vegas having more options and no HVX, given that Serious Magic, CineForm, and Raylight all have very good HVX conversion, I'd rather have the greater options. I'm seriously impressed with the Serious Magic decoder/converter. Exceptionally fast, and I think it's priced at around $200.00. It's optimized specifically for Vegas and Premiere Pro 2.0. We don't shoot with the HVX much, but it's been fun working with the SM decoder, and I don't find it to be any kind of negative interruption in the workflow.

hey, thanks for the answer...isnt there some kind of trade off or reduced functionality with the converters though?


sounds odd that Canopus can afford an sdk and sony cant.

You're certain that other NLE devs paid for the SDK? ;-)
The only reduced functionality of significance (IMO) that you can't use the proxies via off-line and frame-accurate replace with actual converted files on-line. There are a other very few minor misses, but overall, it's the same experience. No quality hit in the conversion, provided you use the high-quality options for conversion. All of the converters offer various qualities of conversion.
I've used them all, and can't choose one for quality over the other. Raylight has the most "unique" method of working, while Serious Magic has the least "visible." CineForm is like their other tools, essentially.