Bill Spearman
April 11th, 2009, 11:19 AM
I am considering changing from Pinnacle Ultimate 11 to a different NLE (still deciding, considering Vegas or Elements 7). With all the footage I have captured in Pinnacle, how easy is it to access that from another editing platform? I hope I don't need to recapture!!!
Apologies for the newbie question, but I sincerely appreciate your expertise and suggestions.
Jack Bellford
April 11th, 2009, 05:22 PM
It depends on what you're talking about.... HDV?
Pinnacle captures HDV as M2V/WAV.
Vegas will not import m2v
Bill Spearman
April 11th, 2009, 05:29 PM
No, I'm still on plain old SD so far, with my trusty GL2.
I guess the essence is the capture proprietary to each NLE. in this particular case Pinnacle Studio, but also in general. I don't want to have to recapture footage if possible, and am not a techhie at heart anyway.
Andrew Smith
April 16th, 2009, 02:52 AM
From memory, the Matrox X.100 and X.2 cards / systems are able to ingest DV footage from a Pinnacle system. This would save you from having to re-capture your footage files all over again.