Sony HDR-FX7 with Sony DVGate Plus 0
Although Vegas is under a different division, Sony Media Software, Sony opted to bundle the RM1 with Adobe’s Premiere Pro 2.0 editing software. There are currently some issues between Windows Vista and Premiere Pro, however—as soon as we launched the program, we got an error message about direct sound input not being supported, and that recording audio would not be possible. Once we clicked through that and started a new project, the program immediately froze. The solution, as it turns out, is to attach a mic to the machine, and to leave it attached. (Strangely, attaching a mic while the machine was running caused it to completely crash.) This workaround made Premiere Pro further issues with the software. captured HDV via a Sony HDR-FX7 with Sony DVGate Plus, a slightly confusing but very versatile capture tool. That yielded a smattering of M2T files (MPEG-2 trans, port stream), one file per press of the camcorder’s start/stop button.
We fed these files to Corel’s Ulead BD Disc Recorder, a simple program that generates simple discs, but just having the power to give someone HDI content on a disc should be a powerful-enough feature to stand on its own. The program claimed that it wasl performing some transcodes, but the process was so fast, we think it probably didn’t actually have to do much ol anything to the HDV clips we imported] (We later tried Roxio’s DVDit Pro HD, reviewed elsewhere in this issue.)
To play back our freshly-burned BD-RE of HDV footage, we launched Corel WinDVD BD for Vaio. Strangely,] it wouldn’t play our disc. We took the opportunity to install CyberLink’s| PowerDVD Ultra, which happily playei back the video (but didn’t output any audio). Just for giggles, we tried WinDVD BD again, and we got both audio and video! This means that we I encountered a strange little codec issti lurking there. We expect a patch to arl dress this should be out before long.
