Vegas and the Panasonic AG AC160A

ddm wrote on 9/22/2014, 3:25 PM

I just got some footage from a client who told me this was the camera he used. It was a 29.97i/1080 mov file. Vegas allowed me to put it on the timeline but it had all green frames. I had to transcode it in Adobe Media Encoder in order to use it in Vegas. MediaInfo just reports it as being an AVC Quicktime file. Is this a known issue, or is there a better way to import the footage into Vegas. I didn't get the original media, just the 2 mov files that were the master takes. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks.

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astar wrote on 9/23/2014, 1:45 AM

I have shot and edited recently with that camera, and did not have that issue in vegas with that video format. Can you post what media info says about the footage, or a slate bump or chipchart short clip from the device? Panasonic is not doing anything special with its AVC aside from using different bitrates from the competition. Off the top of my head, re-encoding the clip may have cleared some corruption that may have been giving vegas issues. Hard to say without seeing the problem.

ddm wrote on 9/23/2014, 12:42 PM

Thanks for the reply. I'm out all day (and night, I'm afraid) on a shoot so I won't get to this until tomorrow. I was only sent 2 video clips, not all that long, one is a little over a minute, but still perhaps a little too large to download for you. I'll post it anyway and you can decide then. I did run mediainfo on the files and the info was brief, basically a quicktime AVC file, no camera info, not sure that's normal or not.

Adobe Premiere (PC) and FCPX (Mac) had no problem reading the camera originals, FYI.

larry-peter wrote on 9/23/2014, 5:05 PM

Something doesn't seem right. I have never seen a Panasonic AVCCAM that records anything other than .mts files (if not using an external recorder). The .mov file you received probably indicates that it was either transcoded or ingested into a Mac with the AVCCAM importer than Panasonic provides for FCP users ("to enable direct editing of .mts files without conversion" according to Panasonic's web site).

I don't think you were given the camera original file.

astar wrote on 9/23/2014, 5:20 PM

Atom12 brings up a good point, the footage must have been trimmed or converted with something.

ddm wrote on 9/23/2014, 6:20 PM

Now that makes sense. Thanks for the clarity. I'll talk to them and let them know that next time I need the originals.

Thanks again.