I'm not expecting to just plug one of these beasts in Vegas and let her rip.
Have to work thru a job with client next week that involves shooting high speed machinery, now they're prepared to show how the machines work using CGI but I'm thinking we could maybe get a high enough frame rate out of the Varicam to get it SloMoed enough to show it effectively.
Now obviously there must be a way to get footage from the Varicam into Vegas, I'm only talking a few minutes at the most so I'm not looking for an elegant workflow, even bringing it in as a stills sequence would do. What system is a post house likely to have that'd be able to ingest the Varicam footage and give it to me in a suitable format for Vegas. Thinking about it maybe a stills sequence would be best, I want all the frames, that way I can fiddle with it as needed and also cut it into HDV footage.
Other possibility is to get them to xfer it to fwire HD box as an AVI, in which case is there a codec available that's Varicam / Vegas compatible. Other possibility would be to have them render out as uncompressed AVI but will they have a system that can handle that.
Sorry for all the tricky questions but if I have some vague inkling of what can handle the task it narrows down the search a bit and makes it much easier when it comes to talking to the post house for price.
Bob.
Have to work thru a job with client next week that involves shooting high speed machinery, now they're prepared to show how the machines work using CGI but I'm thinking we could maybe get a high enough frame rate out of the Varicam to get it SloMoed enough to show it effectively.
Now obviously there must be a way to get footage from the Varicam into Vegas, I'm only talking a few minutes at the most so I'm not looking for an elegant workflow, even bringing it in as a stills sequence would do. What system is a post house likely to have that'd be able to ingest the Varicam footage and give it to me in a suitable format for Vegas. Thinking about it maybe a stills sequence would be best, I want all the frames, that way I can fiddle with it as needed and also cut it into HDV footage.
Other possibility is to get them to xfer it to fwire HD box as an AVI, in which case is there a codec available that's Varicam / Vegas compatible. Other possibility would be to have them render out as uncompressed AVI but will they have a system that can handle that.
Sorry for all the tricky questions but if I have some vague inkling of what can handle the task it narrows down the search a bit and makes it much easier when it comes to talking to the post house for price.
Bob.