WIll Vegas support DVCPRO HD?

galt wrote on 4/24/2005, 5:26 PM

I am committed (at this point) to moving down the HiDef path offered by the newly announced Panny HDX200. Without getting into a religious discussion about HDX choices vs Sony's HDV choices, I would like to know if Vegas will support this format and provide a codec for it? I know that some companies would use leverage in one product to try to force buying another product. If Sony decides to NOT support DVCPRO HD (so they can try to enhance their HDV position) I will be switching NLE's. But I would rather make the switch now, before I upgrade to version 6 and spend anouther six months getting proficient at Vegas/DVDA and SF.

So how about Sony Vegas people? Will you guys be supporting DVCPRO50 and DVCPRO HD as they become available? Or should I just byte the bullet now and switch NLE's ?? FWIW, I would rather upgrade than switch, I really like Vegas and whenever someone shows me something else I get more convinced how good Vegas is. So please give me some good news.

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farss wrote on 1/25/2006, 2:22 PM

You can send DVCPro50 down SDI into the BMD card and capture as Sony YUV, you do need a DVCPro deck with SDI and from memory there's a bit of a glitch. Panasonic don't embed the audio in the SDI stream so you have to handle that in analogue land or else use AES audio or get an external box that'll mux the AES back into the SDI stream. Or maybe there's a Panasonic deck now that does it all via SDI, always hard to know with those guys, there was talk of a deck to do DVCPro25 via 1394 but they killed it off.
Which is kind of where DigiBeta has it all over DVCPro50, one SDI coax handles vision and 8 channels of audio plus one 9 pin cable for deck control and you're done. You can run both of those an awefully long way too.
Bob.

DJPadre wrote on 1/25/2006, 8:49 PM

one thing about Sony/Sonic Foundry (yeah im going back in time) is that developed elements are always in tune and in time with WHAT IS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED OR AVAILABLE.

for example, dual layer support in architect.. burnable (keyword) dual layer9 discs and burners were not officially recognised until the DVDForum said so... THAT was when sony supported it and added it to DVDA3.
HDV... until it was officially annouced, vegas had always support HD, but not HDV... as soon as HDV was a green light.. it was there...

It'll happen.. in time..

silliusmillius53 wrote on 1/1/2010, 11:22 PM

I hope that Sony will actually create their own suppot for P2 HDPro. The software is great, but not having "in family" support for P2 doesn't reflect the "Pro" aspect of the software. Surely "Pro" software should be able to handle any of the professional formats out in the marketplace? It's not like P2 HDPro has just arrived on the market yesterday.

Joe White wrote on 1/1/2010, 11:48 PM

Holy Zombie thread ressurection.

John_Cline wrote on 1/1/2010, 11:54 PM

Panasonic has flatly refused to license the DVCPROHD codec to Sony to incorporate into Vegas. The way around it is Raylight Ultra:

http://dvfilm.com/raylight/ultra/index.htm