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rendering a few vegas projects?
Hello everybody,
I have made a 90 minuete family film and it is made of 40 chapters.
I have edited every chapter as a different project.
Now, I want to render all the chapters together. if I import one project to another, it reduces the quality.How should I render it?
Thanks for your help
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8 Replies
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What kind of files are your chapters made up as?
Do you ahve 40 .veg files, 40 mpg files, 40 avi files ???? How are you trying to put them together? A little more information would help. -
Hi,
I have 40 veg. files which I rendered to 40 mpeg-2 files.
It’s on sony vegas 8 if I haven’t mentioned it.
If I import all the mpeg files into one vegas project and render it, it will reduce the quality. I also tried to import a few vegas files into one and it also reduced the quality when I rendered it.
Thanks for helping!
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Reducing anything to a lowbitrate mpeg file has already significantly reduce the quality. Rendering low bitrate MPEG to low bitrate MPEG is only going to amplify that loss of quality
Douglas Spotted Eagle
VASSTCertified Sony Vegas Trainer
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You can try placing your 40 veg files on the time line (without rendering to mpeg). This is called nesting but I’m not sure it will work with that many veg files.
What I would probably do is render the veg files as DV.avi files. Then put those .avi files on a time line and render as mpeg2 and AC3 (if your intentuion is to take to DVDA for a DVD). You’ll get much better quality. -
Thanks!
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I have tried to put a few vegas files together but surprisingly it reduced the quality.
I have a sony camera that record on a small cd as vob files. When I import from the camera to the computer with vegas, it makes it saves it as mpg files. is there a way to import it as avi. I couldn’t see a place to change the settings while importing from the camera.
Thanks for your help
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When you capture from your camera you basically just tranfer data. The data from your camera is MPEG that is why you capture MPEG. It should be a bit for bit copy with no degradation. However it does not carry as much data as a DV.avi camera for instance. MPEG does not take to editing very kindly. It is meant as a delivery format not an editing format. Those cameras are meant for people who just want to tape their events and watch them, not edit them. MPEG is called a LOSSY codec. That is everytime oit is rendered as an MPEG it loses data, lots of it. avi for example is called a lossless codec (although it isn’t exactly true) because you lose much less data when you render it. But you keep more data, therefore you have larger files. Once you lose the data, for all intents, you cannot get it back. That is-you cannot render to MPEG (lose data) and then rerender to avi (and get data back)
Soryy for the rambling answer. -
Thanks for your answer,
About the camera, I understood that it is a problematic camera only after I bought it! For now, I am stuck with it… but it also bring good things, that is why I started editting with vegas, for example.
Vegas is supporting vob files and makes it possible to edit such format. (it import it as mpg files).I have tried to connect all the chapters with flick dvd but the quality was impossible to watch.
Do you have more ideas of how to turn 40 into 1
Cheers!
S.
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