Changing NLE from Pinnacle Studio at DVinfo.net

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.

April 11th, 2009, 11:19 AM	#1
Bill Spearman Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 161	Changing NLE from Pinnacle Studio 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.

April 11th, 2009, 05:29 PM	#3
Bill Spearman Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 161	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. Last edited by Bill Spearman; April 11th, 2009 at 07:30 PM.

April 11th, 2009, 05:22 PM	#2
Jack Bellford Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Winnipeg Canada Posts: 68	It depends on what you're talking about.... HDV? Pinnacle captures HDV as M2V/WAV. Vegas will not import m2v

April 16th, 2009, 02:52 AM	#4
Andrew Smith Equal Opportunity Offender Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 3,065	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.