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1. DVD into Vegas 6 & 2. Flip Horizontal
Hi,
I’ve asked Q no. 2 a long time ago, but can’t find the answer.
At any rate, here are my two questions:
1. A friend is bringing a DVD, which he would like me to edit, and make a new DVD out of it.
Can I “import” this DVD into Vegas 6 for editing, and if so how?
2. Portions of this DVD show street scenes with the store and street names reversed (was made from old movie film, portions of which were cut-pasted the wrong way.) Can I anti-reverse those portions with Vegas 6, and if so, how?
(I think I can press “S” to isolate the reversed portions, but how do I get them straight so the letters show properly?)
Many thanks again!
John -
6 Replies
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Yes you can IMPORT the DVD into Vegas but frankly MPEG format is very difficult to edit-IMHO you are better off playing the DVD into Vegas with a set top DVD player and if needed a passthru, that way you are capturing it in an editable AVI format.
As for REVERSING the clips, yes you can. Split the clips on either end and right click the clip-in the drop down there is “REVERSE” highlight that and the clip is now reversed. Be aware that if there is movement in the clip you “might” have to trim or lenghten a frame or 2 to get it to where you want it.Don
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1. In Vegas 6.0c or newer, you have a File – Import – DVD Camcorder Disc option that should work to import the DVD. However, I still like the method mentioned by Don to simply capture it.
2. Split the section out as Don mentioned but then go to Pan/Crop. Right-click the image in the Pan/Crop window and you’ll see “Flip Horizontal” and “Flip Vertical”. These are how you can flip the video various directions. The “Reverse” option mentioned by Don will play the video from the end to the beginning but will not actually “flip” the video.
Edward Troxel
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OOOPS! Right again Edward, that’ll teach me to say something before I’ve had enough coffee to really think it though. 🙂
Don
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Many many thanks, folks, for your forbearance and guidance.
I was able to “flip horizontally.” What I can’t figure out exactly is how to best import the DVD (Unfortunately the DVD is the best material I have. It’s from historical govt. film archives, which are not available. Bomb damage in a city in 1940. The DVD is in PAL.) I tried placing the DVD in the PC, then using Vegas 6: FILE/IMPORT/CAMCORDER DISK and it captured it in 3 separate pieces (why in pieces I don’t know), but did not capture something, because it lost about 2 minutes of this 12 minute DVD – probably the beginning titles. These pieces were in format “VTS_01_02.mpg” etc. I then tried capturing its VOB file (“VTS_01_0.IFO”) using “Clone DVD2” with better success; this captured the entire length of the DVD – and this latter is what I finally imported into Vegas and used. {Quite frankly I am not familiar with either of these processes, but they seem to “work” after a fashion.
I don’t know what these are, nor whether one type is of better quality than the other. Both could be imported into Vegas 6. I was able to cut the video into segments, as it was originally assembled, and adjust brightness/contrast/unsharp mask for each, then batch adjust black and white (because they had taken a greenish cast.) The flip horizontal worked like a charm!
Your suggestion about using an external DVD player and importing into the PC is intriguing, for future reference I would appreciate a few more instructions. How would one connect it to the PC? (If this info helps, I have a Sony Digi-8 Camcorder, which can passthrough to the PC whatever it is fed.)
Next Q: The DVD has a very nice, slow pan of an entire city, taken from a height above it. Nice, professional job (although the picture quality is the pits, because of age.) I would like to “stretch-out” the viewing time, instead of the 15 seconds or so, to maybe twice that time-length. How is that feat done with Vegas, please?
Thank you again!
John -
Quick and simple way, make sure that is a separate section (i.e. split on both sides of it) and then hold down the CTRL key while resizing it to twice the length. That will slow it down.
The other option is to insert a velocity envelope. That will let you dynamically change the speed of a clip. There’s a lot more info in Vol 1 #9 of my newsletters.
Edward Troxel
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Thank you, Edward. That was certainly “quick and simple.”
John
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