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Best format for re-editing in Sony Vegas
I’ve been searching for days on my inquiry, and this seems to be the best site. Hopefully someone can help me out.
Question:
First, my question is, what is the best quality I can save to, in order to re-edit videos?Setup:
I have a HD PVR recorder and record video to .m2ts files. I currently use Sony Vegas 10 and want to save certain clips from the “master” .m2ts video files to use for editing towards another project.After searching the web, it seems the Cineform codec was the best to use. But I need to use Sony Vegas 10 to “clip” out parts of the video. Not the Cineform program to convert whole clip.
I’ve read that Sony Vegas has a form of Cineform codec already built in, but I can’t seem to locate it under “Render As” setting.
Is there another video format that is in Sony Vegas that I can use?
Any info would be appreciated.
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3 Replies
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Generally, your best plan is to encode the edited video to the same specs as the source file.
(BTW – everything on the timeline in Vegas is an event – not a clip.)
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Ok. Given all the options in Sony Vegas 10, which would be the best video format to save the “events” as, so I can add them to another project at a later time?
Basically, I record gameplay from a online multiplayer game. But instead of having to load the whole “match” in Sony Vegas, I want to just save certain clips from that file, in video format, that I can use to add to another project. I want to try to maintain quality of the clips to the original recording.
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As you said, CineForm is a great format to edit but it no longer comes free with Vegas as of Vegas Pro 9.0. So if you have Vegas Pro 8.0 or earlier you have CineForm. If you have Vegas Pro 9.0 or 10.0 you do not and would have to purchase it separately.
Sony MXF is a good format to edit as is HDV. Both should edit very smoothly.
~jr
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http://www.vasst.com
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