Decklink Card should allow you to hook up your Beta Deck to Vegas.

If you've already captured your phootage I would use an external HD or Network Transfer to get the files where they need to be for Vegas to have access.

We have a Media Server that houses most all of our Captured phootage. Any computer connected to the network can access it. This seems to work best because we can capture, edit, or do whatever from any workstation in the network.

Thanks Lamont, i´ve already captured all phootage, but Media100 exports Quicktime movies, and i think that in the PowerMac G3 that will take SOME time to render...

It's a bit tricky because nothing in the world will be able to read that original media100 media other than M100.

I'd do some render tests from m100 to see if anything you render from it can be used comfortably in Vegas. I hear that mjpeg-A is a good choice out from m100 but Vegas's performance may not be so great.

On a related note, I regularly use m100 powerlogs as a basis for my DV captures (we shoot on DVCAM here). I gave up early on trying to get the m100 footage directly over to Vegas but you may be more motivated than I was.

Rob Mack

Thanks Rob, i´m gonna try that and i note that there´s a m100 codec on the web page, i´ve already captured whole material... so i´m a bit more "motivated" now...

Yep. I found it was less time consuming to just recapture but that's because it was DV25 tape so it was easy for Vegas to work with, and also because the 3 m100 systems at work are constantly busy so I couldn't tie one up making extra renders.

Curious...
Did you Re-Capture using VEGAS?
Are you gonna Edit your project using VEGAS?
Have you ran into any Software/Hardware problems using VEGAS?

If at some point you need to go back into Media100... I'm wonderinf if the files Captured by VEGAS will be read by it? (I'm thinking they will.)

This is my standard approach for dealing with any two standard definition editing systems. DV tape is, right now, the only universal, no-loss, standard out there.

Print to tape, recapture and forget about it. Much faster, easier and more reliable than trying to get multiple codecs to talk to each other.

I was hoping someone would mention how to work in Vegas (say, doing a composite picture in picture move or converting Windows Media Files) and produce a file that Media 100 likes.

So far, I render out as a huge uncompressed Quicktime 6 and it imports okay.

Pixel aspect ratios and project size are problems, though. Circles always seem to be less than perfectly round when going back to M100.

M100 works in D1 (720x486). I try making my Vegas project that size, but circles still flatten a bit. Messing with pixel aspect works somewhat.

I tried exporting as Motion JPEGs and the file was smaller, but also darker. Gamma problem somewhere.

Very tricky.

I work only in D1 and D5 in Vegas. If you are not getting this right from your M100, it sounds like there is a mismatch between square pixels and 0.9091 PAR pixels, just try the two in your project properties to see which one gives you perfect circles.