importing HDV into Combustion

#1

Hi there! I just bought the JVC GY-HD100 camera which shoots at 720p HDV. I shot some green screen stuff over the weekend and imported it from the camera into Premiere Por 1.5.1 with no problems. But now when I import the files into Combustion 4.1, they show up as audio files only. I do know that Premiere is saving them as MPEG 2’s using Cineform’s Visual Perfect format … my question is: does anyone know where I can get a free codec or plug-in which would alllow me to import this footage into Combustion? I’ve been to the Autodesk website and they have no info addressing the problem.
Thanks!

Vinny

#2

Did you try to export a sequential files (like tga) from Adobe Premiere and than importing them to Combustion. I know that is not the answer of your question but maybe the solution can help…:slight_smile:

#3

HDV is still fairly new. Right now only Editing software has added support for it. Do as Milo suggested and export it as a sequence.

#4

I have a problem of combution import footage too. not about the HDV. but the mov file from FCP. I can convert it to the file sequence, but it cause the quality loss. any suggestion of the convertion without loss will be appreciated. Sure i have use the lossless format.

#5

There won’t be any loss if you convert to a lossless file format. Just don’t use jpg.

#6

Beaker, I do use the lossless format, like .tga or .tif, but when i read it back to the FCP or FLAME, the saturation and luminance is diffent to the original one. The convertion tool that i have tried is: FCP, SHAKE.

#7

Don’t know if anybody cares… but I figured out the solution. Actually, I didn’t figure it out … I just spent a week online poking around till I found the answer!

If anyone cares … all you have to do is download and install the Sony “Vegas” demo from off their website. When you install Vegas, it’ll install a codec that Combustion will use to import the footage. You can uninstall Vegas immediately after and the codec will remain on your computer.

Hope this helps anyone else!

#8

thanks vinny.
appreciate the heads up :wink:

b

#9

Thanks for letting us know.

#10

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