• VEGAS Pro

  DVD- MPEG2 Source

  Posted by Thomas Roberts on October 22, 2010 at 5:26 pm

  I’m working with DVD’s MPEG2 that were given to me by a client. I am editing a Promo REEL. All footage is on DVD’s that were burned via a computer. I can open the VOB’s in Sony Vegas Pro. (Easy part)

  1. What is the best way to edit up to 4 clips from a DVD? We’re talking about 30 secs clips from a 60 to 90 min DVD.

  2. I open the DVD in Sony Vegas Pro- Do my edit, then SAVE the project as a Backup with the VEG files. I have over 30 DVD’s to review. Seems that the Back up file is creating copies with a 2 sec header/ Tail, it is becoming a HUGE file. Trying to put the files together so I don’t have to insert 30+ DVD’s the next time I open the project.

  – Issue is editing DVD’s, creating a time-line and how to store that time-line efficiently

  Any tips to do this efficiently?

  Thanks,

  T

  Thomas Roberts replied 15 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  John Rofrano

  October 22, 2010 at 8:56 pm

  I would extract the clips from each DVD separately and render them to a new (smaller) file. If your render parameters are the same, Vegas will “smart-render” which means it doesn’t render at all… it just copies the source to the target unchanged. Then you can assemble your project from the rendered clips.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Thomas Roberts

  October 23, 2010 at 2:58 am

  Bingo- Thanks

  Thomas
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  John Rofrano

  October 23, 2010 at 5:30 pm

  You’re welcome. If you do a lot of this you might want to look into Womble. It’s an MPEG2 editor just for cutting and trimming and saving with no rendering! This is what I used before Vegas added smart-rendering for MPEG2.

  ~jr

  http://www.johnrofrano.com
  http://www.vasst.com
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  Thomas Roberts

  October 26, 2010 at 12:44 am

  Thanks

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