VP22 or VP23 - How do they handle XAVC S?

anthony-chiappette wrote on 10/9/2025, 1:54 AM

After over 10 years I decided to update my video cams. My Canon HFR800 camcorders seem to be fading, they are having trouble refocusing every few minutes and ruining my videos. So I bought 2 Sony FDRAX43 cameras to replace them. They allow recording in XAVC S or AVCHD. I plan to use XAVC S recording at 60 FPS at 1080p - bit rate will be 50Mbps. 4K only allows maximum of 30 FPS, but I will test that out to see the result. I mainly plan on using standard HD 60p.My Canons recorded AVCHD 60p 1920 x 1080 and I have no issues with those files (created as MP4). Will I run into any issues using XAVC S, or should it be handled fine in Vegas Pro 22 or 23?

Systems specs are in my signature.

Comments

RogerS wrote on 10/9/2025, 2:22 AM

Everything I shoot is Sony XAVC S and VEGAS works great with it.

I have a RTX 4060 mobile and RTX 5070 desktop so our GPUs are similar. Older versions of VEGAS worked better with QSV decoding but NVDEC is great these days.

andyrpsmith wrote on 10/9/2025, 4:45 AM

I have been using Sony AX100 and AX700 since 2015 and film in 4K 25p with fantastic results. Before I had a 4K TV I used to render the 4K to 1080p BluRay which was also fantastic quality. In my view 4K is more future proof than 1080 and the 1080 footage from 4K may even be better than 1080p acquisition. Remember that 4K contains 4x the data than 1080.