Working with footage from the FS100 in Vegas?

David G. Smith

David G. Smith

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I shot some footage for a client on my FS100 and he has contacted me back saying that the can not get the footage to play in Vegas. The footage was delivered to them as the raw .mts files off of the SD card copies and pasted to a DVD data disk (On a Mac Pro). The footage was shot at 1080 24p. The say that they can pull the files from the DVD to the PC and play then on other players (VLC), but that when they move them into Vegas the clips won't play. Is there a secret to it? Anyone have any tips I can relay to the client?
 
What version of Vegas is your client using?
A guy on the Sony Vegas forum started a thread and he's bragging about the quality of the footage from his FS100.
He's on Vegas Pro 11 build 511, Windows7 64bit.

Mike
 
rs170a said:
What version of Vegas is your client using?
A guy on the Sony Vegas forum started a thread and he's bragging about the quality of the footage from his FS100.
He's on Vegas Pro 11 build 511, Windows7 64bit.

Mike
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What would be the minimum requirements to run FS100 footage in Vegas?
 
I have no idea if these are minimum requirements but here are the specs on the system the guy I mentioned has.

System #1
Windows Version: 7 64-bit
RAM: 12 gig, DDR3
Processor: Intel i7 930 clocked at 3ghz per core, cooler.
Video Card: Nvidia GTX 570. 3 screens. Driver: 290.36 beta
Sound Card: professional Motu firewire interface
Video Capture: OHCI compliant IEEE1394 card, USB reader
CD Burner: LG
DVD Burner: LG, and blueray LG
Camera: Sony v1, Canon 5D, Canon 7D, + point and shoots
Add. Comments: Vegas Version 11 pro build 511. Windows7 64bit.

Mike
 
Question: Did you only send the .MTS files to your client or did you give them a copy of the SD card (Duplicate) including the full directory structure?
If you did only send the .MTS files, hopefully you still have the SD card or a back-up of it with all the files and folders. Send them the rest of the files and folders, they shouldn't be that big in a email. Get your client to recreate the files and folders with the .MTS files you already sent, and then try to re-import the footage through Vegas.
Sorry I can comment on Vegas (importing) haven't used it in awhile.

Hope this helps out.
 
You need Vegas (Pro) 8.0c or higher. I know 8.0a and lower don't work, but not sure about b. Performance is pretty poor in 8.0 though, it's much better in 9, 10 & 11.
 
DirtyCache said:
Question: Did you only send the .MTS files to your client or did you give them a copy of the SD card (Duplicate) including the full directory structure?
If you did only send the .MTS files, hopefully you still have the SD card or a back-up of it with all the files and folders. Send them the rest of the files and folders, they shouldn't be that big in a email. Get your client to recreate the files and folders with the .MTS files you already sent, and then try to re-import the footage through Vegas.
Sorry I can comment on Vegas (importing) haven't used it in awhile.

Hope this helps out.
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i am not sure that I have the info on the SD card or not. I do have all of the folders off of the SD card back up on a HD. It is about 7 gigs worth of info. How would I get that much info from a Mac to a PC?
 
qazwsx makes a good point what release/version is your client running of Vegas? The NEX-FS100 ships with a copy of Vegas Pro 10 so I wouldn't go below that version (in my mind).

As for the SD Card back-up I was explaining earlier, the largest file are the .MTS files which your client already has. Hopefully the .MTS still have the original file names (eg. 00000.MTS, 00001.MTS, 00002.MTS, etc). All you would need to do is send them the missing files and folders from the SD card. The main folder (private) and in that folder you have (AVCHD) and (SONY). The (SONY) folder has SONYCARD.IND file, the (AVCHD) has a folder (BDMV). In (BDMV) you have 3 folders (CLIPINF), (PLAYLIST), (STREAM), and 2 files (INDEX.BDM), (MOVIEOBJ.BDM). All you would need to do (on a MAC/OSX) is copy everything but the (STREAM) folder with the .MTS files because your client has them. Then take the copy, right click or control click on the (private) folder and Compress. The file should be less then a MB which then you can email to your client. Get your client to unzip the file (easy to do in Windows), tell them to add the (STREAM) Folder in the (BDMV) Folder and copy the .MTS files you already sent them to it. Load up Vegas and import, and hopefully this should work out with the footage.

QUICK BREAKDOWN: Copy the (private) folder with everything in it but the .MTS files. Compress (private) folder and send to client. Client uncompress and then adds/copy's the .MTS files to the (STREAM) Folder.

Any questions just ask.
Cheers
 
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As far as I know, Vegas has no special way of importing data from an SD card source. Basically you just select the MTS files and it places them in your media bin; No different than dragging them from windows explorer. This in contrast with Sony's PMB/CMB utility.

When you import (to your PC, not directly into vegas) with the PMB it converts the MTS streams into M2TS, but there's no difference between the two, and the only advantage of using the PMB is if you have clips that span 2GB and you want them to be stitched together with no 12 frame audio dropout between the two. Adobe Premiere Pro has this functionality built in and requires the card structure to be in-tact, but again as far as I know, vegas has no special import function for sd cards.
 
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