Vegas to Apple Color

Hodges

Hodges

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Howdy,
Does anyone know the best method to transfer a project from Sony Vegas to Apple Color?

Any help is appreciated!
-Hodges
 
I would suggest either Avid DNxHD or Cineform (if you own the newest version of Cineform NeoSCENE or NeoHD). If you don't own Cineform, and your footage is not 1080/30p, go for Avid DNxHD. Both your PC and the recipient PC must install the free Avid intermediate codec. If your footage is 1080/30p, then you're kinda stuck. There's no other 10bit intermediate codec apart Cineform that will do that.
 
Thanks Eugenia!
Regarding the actual process of moving the project to Color... Is there a way to export an EDL in Vegas 10 that Color or FCP will recognize?

Thanks again.
 
Try it, not sure, I think there's an EDL project-saving though. Why not use Vegas' color correction utilities btw? They're not that bad.
 
The EDL's out of Vegas are not compatible with FCP or Color. I just contacted Automatic Duck to see if they have a program that will help. -- I agree that Vegas CC isn't bad - Color, however, is much more flexible (plus our colorist is fluent in Color)...

If anyone has ideas, please post! I'll keep updating as I experiment.
 
Load the EDL Vegas version on CS5, and re-save it from there, and then try CS5's EDL version with FCP. Try Avid's way too. If that doesn't work either (Vegas' EDL not compatible with anything), you're out of luck I think and you'd have to export everything as a huge file, and the the colorist will have to re-cut manually, which of course might not work well if you have transitions etc. BTW, try these results on creativecow: http://www.google.com/search?q=vegas+edl+fcp&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official Apparently there's no good way to go from FCP to Vegas using a file format, but the idea of Vegas->CS5/Avid->FCP might work. Some report that EDL on FCE works, but only for the first audio/video track (so you might need to just shrink your tracks into one).
 
Thanks.
Automatic Duck sent a test file to try-out (vegas > automatic duck > fcp)... Your idea from Vegas > Avid / CS5 > FCP sounds logical. I will give it a shot as well.
Update soon...
 
Good news ... I have successfully imported a Vegas project into FCP > Color. Automatic Duck was used to translate the Vegas .AAF into a FCP file.
Crossfades and fades remain intact -- Pan / Crop effects, however, do not translate.

If anything changes, I'll update.
 
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