OK, newbie HVX question here....regarding capturing 720 or 1080

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JimboHVX

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:huh: So Sony Vegas 7 will not recognize a 720 or 1080 signal when i hook up a firewire and try to capture a stream? Am i just confused? Cant i use my 3.2 ghz, 1.5 gb ram pentium 4 to capture the high def stuff? I saw someone mention Avid....will Avid do it? I am talking capturing a stream strait off the camera, i dont have the p2 card yet. Can anyone help!!??

Jimbo
 
It's not a question of CPU speed or memory, it's a lack of support for the DVCProHD codec on Sony's part. Sony doesn't like Panasonic -- go figure.

The most comprehensive native support for MXF/DVCProHD right now is in Canopus Edius 4 Broadcast. You may also want to look a Cineform, Raylight, Matrox MXO, and Adobe/Serious Magic's DV Rack 2.0 HD (great for monitoring/capturing, and includes their DVCProHD decoder).
 
David S. said:
Matrox MXO, I believe, is used just to output from FCP on a Mac.

Might be mistaken
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No, you're correct, I meant Matrox Axio, not MXO. My bad.
 
Final Cut Studio 5.1.x permits an install on one desktop and one laptop owned by the licensee.

No simultaneous use however.
 
JimboHVX said:
:huh: So Sony Vegas 7 will not recognize a 720 or 1080 signal when i hook up a firewire and try to capture a stream? Am i just confused? Cant i use my 3.2 ghz, 1.5 gb ram pentium 4 to capture the high def stuff? I saw someone mention Avid....will Avid do it? I am talking capturing a stream strait off the camera, i dont have the p2 card yet. Can anyone help!!??

Jimbo
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Get Serious Magic DV Rack 2.0 HD. It'll do the capturing for you, and it installs a codec that lets Vegas edit the HVX files.
 
so i can send a 1080 signal out of the firewire without a p2 cad right? i have avid installed now and still cant get a signal!
 
Yes you can send 1080 out the firewire port without a P2 card.

Avid XPress Pro HD, running on Windows XP Service Pack 2, will capture 1080. You have to have SP2, as that's the version where Microsoft introduced DVCPRO-HD transport support.
 
OK, i still need a little help. I already had service pack 2, i installed avid xpress pro HD on my computer, and i go to capture and nothing happens. What am i missing here???
 
no just p not pn.......does vegas conflict with avid ie do i have to remove it and its codecs to make avid work right? thats all i can think of at this point!

Jimbo
 
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