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rs170a wrote on 10/25/2006, 5:53 PM
What am I to do here?

Wait for Sony to release a patch that allows Vegas to import AVCHD files.
Your guess is as good as anyone else's as to when that will be.

Mike
fldave wrote on 10/25/2006, 5:57 PM
I thought I heard there was a converter software disk supplied with the camera?
Steve Finch wrote on 10/25/2006, 6:46 PM
The software that came with the camera does not do anything for Vegas that I can see....

It would be nice if someone from Sony would pop in and let us know what's up???
fldave wrote on 10/25/2006, 7:25 PM
"The software that came with the camera does not do anything for Vegas that I can see"

What does the software do? I'm sure it's not specifically for Vegas. I thought Spot said that you use that to put the video into a standard HDV format mpeg that Vegas and other HDV tools can use.
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/25/2006, 7:58 PM
To answer Steve and fldave...
1. Sony Vegas is a product of Sony Media Software, not Sony Electronics, two very separate companies.
2. The UX1/SR1 come with converter applications and are currently not supported in Vegas because:
a: Vegas 7 was released before the UX1/SR1 was released
b: Only a masochist would want to edit native AVC; it's EXTREMELY processor intensive to decode and edit.
3. Sony Electronics probably doesn't have anyone who has ever popped into this forum, or any other forum. This is the only Sony-sponsored forum in the world, and I'd wager no one at Sony Electronics knows it exists. The broadcast group has a few people that 'pop' in here now and again, but that's another entirely different group from Sony Media Software or Sony consumer group (who is responsible for the consumer camcorders).

it's gonna be a while, if ever, that we'll be editing native AVC files due to the intensive processor requirements. Remember what it was like 2 years back when HDV hit the scene? More than double that requirement with today's procs, and you'll have an idea of why you want an intermediary for AVCHD.
fldave wrote on 10/25/2006, 8:12 PM
Thanks Spot.

I thought Steve was implying that he can't get to any of his footage at all. I also thought there was a converter from the AVCHD format to something most editing packages can use. It sounds like the converter application is a plugin to something, rather than a stand alone media converter, and can't plug in to Vegas.

How can you edit any AVCHD source footage (converted to what ever format you can)?

Edited: I'm not talking native footage, only ability to edit any footage at all regardless of how many conversions needed to pull into Vegas.
ForumAdmin wrote on 10/26/2006, 10:16 AM
info on AVCHD:

http://www.custcenter.com/cgi-bin/sonypictures.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2634&p_created=1161808213
Jay-Hancock wrote on 10/26/2006, 10:27 AM
It appears that Cineform is planning to support this. Here is some discussion by the Cineform CTO on the DV Info forum.

What I don't know is if a future Cineform AVI that has 5.1 sound encoded in it will get the audio functioning in Vegas. Seems like Vegas would need a patch to read the audio channels from the Cineform codec.
Steve Finch wrote on 10/26/2006, 4:07 PM
I am able to convert it through some software that came with the camera... A program called "Picture Motion Browser" but I need to do a few tests to see how much loss there is...

My goal is not to end up with HD as I have no way to burn it anyway, but to start with great raw vids and go from there. I might just have to stick with the DV in 16:9 for now...

Thought?

Thanks
Steve Finch wrote on 10/26/2006, 4:40 PM
Just did a test...

Same shot, same lighting.
both 16:9
One in HD one in SD

The HD was converted through "Picture Motion Browser"...
Both were placed one the time line...

If anything, the SD looks cleaner than the HD after the convert....

Looks like I am going to stick with SD for a while until Sony gets their ship together