Spot - How's the 5D2 treating you?

fairorth wrote on 1/19/2009, 3:37 PM

I'm hoping DSE or someone clever can figure out how I can get the gorgeous files to work nicely in Vegas 8. The images are just stunning when I view the native files (in Media Player 11) but I have not found a way to work with them smoothly in Vegas.

Douglas, I'll drop mine too if it makes you feel better .... ;-)

Thanks - Marc

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Marco. wrote on 2/1/2009, 2:43 AM

7.6 introduces another kind of problems, see postings above. I would not use Quicktime for 5D2 clip decoding if there is a chance to avoid.

Marco
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vicmilt wrote on 2/4/2009, 2:08 PM

Have been alternating between cutting my Z1 footage (smooth as silk) and battling the magnificent Canon 5D footage.
On closer observation, even with the new improved QuickTime 7.6, I still need to tweak the Saturation lower and the Gamma higher to get "nice" coloration.

Also, I'm now rendering all my footage in Vegas, using the HDV 1080 built-in filter so I can edit in realtime. It's a bitch and slow, but I have not found any other method that works. I spent hours with the Cineform trial and could produce intermediates but with no picture - sound only. I messed around with every other suggestion I found to date... After Effects (terrible tearing) CoreAVI (made nice Windows Media files) but nothing that actually works in Vegas.

So I'm re-rendering the necessary footage in Vegas and then will use that to edit with.

More as I slog along.
If someone comes up with an easier way, please let us all know.

For those of you interested in purchasing the 5D as a primary camera, well...
it ain't.
Beautiful imagery, but too difficult to work with. Focus difficult. Zooms impossible w still lenses. Exposures tricky.
Can't edit in Vegas - maybe on Mac w Final Cut.
It's not ready for prime time.

I really think that all is needed to help the editing is the correct codec, but my clients can't wait, and anyway,there aren't even promises around. So I'm currently rerendering the footage.

v