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  mpeg2 editing and rendering question in Vegas Movie Studio 8

  Posted by Frederick Ghannam on March 4, 2009 at 7:25 pm

  My question is in regard to MPEG-2 editing and rendering in Vegas Movie studio 8,

  I have captured an 720×480 MPEG-2 compliant stream from my video capture card and edited this in Vegas Movie Studio 8.0. When I render this for subsequent DVD authoring (DVD Architect) there is a noticable loss of quality in the video stream created on the DVD. Is there a technique to successfully edit captured MPEG-2 video on Vegas 8 and then burn this to DVD without degrading the quality? (ie without re-encoding it?) I am using the main concept MPEG-2 encoder as my default output.

  Terry Esslinger replied 17 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Terry Esslinger

  March 4, 2009 at 9:20 pm

  Smart rendering (if available) will not rerender unaltered footage. However change anything and of course it will need to be rerendered. Since MPEG 2 is a lossy codec you would be rendering a lossy codec into a lossy codec thus the considerable loss of quality.
  Thats one reason that MPEG2 is considered mainly a delivery format and not a capture format (for editing).

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