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Best Way to get Rid of Unwanted Video and Resave?
Hi all
Quick question. I’m using Vegas 6 and I’m quite new to it. I have captured long video files. typically, in a e.g. 20 minute file, I may only want three or four clips equaling e.g. 8 or 10 minutes total. What’s the best way to discard all the unwanted video and just keep the clips I want without having to re-render ?
The way i do it now is set markers, then use SPLITS to isolate the areas i don’t want, then delete the areas I don’t want, then do some crossfades with the clips to create a small movie. i then have to do a RENDER AS, which resaves the movie – which takes forever.
I’m just wondering if there is a way to save the new movie without having to re-render the whole thing? Won’t I lose video quality every time I re-render?
help
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6 Replies
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If your working in DV format just save as DV again. As long as you don’t add any filters, transistions or fades the video will be written from the original video file (no loss of quality). This only works with DV video. DV in an .avi wrapper is the same thing.
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Rendering to a new file is fine assuming you’re starting with DV-AVI and going to DV-AVI. However, you say the process takes “forever” – that should NOT be the case going from DV to DV.
So… What is your “from” and what is your “to” that you’ve been using?
Edward Troxel
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“I’m just wondering if there is a way to save the new movie without having to re-render the whole thing? Won’t I lose video quality every time I re-render?”
No. Vegas is non-destructive, meaning that the original video data is unaltered, no matter what you do to it on the timeline.
There’s a few ways to make a new AVI file that is a subset of the original, and unless you have done something in the timeline such as fades, effects, color corrections, etc, you won’t see any gen losses (and rendering is fast since you are basically making a copy). You can split and delete or make a region then render to a new track.
(And, 20-minutes of video is not a lot. My projects can have as much as 100Gb of video data represented on the timeline. I wouldn’t bother since 20-minutes is only 4 Gb.)
Stephen Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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OK so in summary, is it a correct statement to say I can capture e.g. one hour as DV-AVI.. then chop it up with splits and remove e.g. 30 minutes of video via trimming, then do a RENDER AS “AVI” and all of the unwanted stuff will be trimmed and the entire file will be saved with the trimmed media events and no signal loss will occur?
Also, is there any way to do destructive editing so when I trim an event it gets trimmed FOR GOOD? Just curious
Thanks all
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[anotheruser] “is it a correct statement to say I can capture e.g. one hour as DV-AVI.. then chop it up with splits and remove e.g. 30 minutes of video via trimming, then do a RENDER AS “AVI” and all of the unwanted stuff will be trimmed and the entire file will be saved with the trimmed media events and no signal loss will occur?”
Yes. That will render out a shorter file with the pieces you want and you can then delete the original file.
[anotheruser] “Also, is there any way to do destructive editing so when I trim an event it gets trimmed FOR GOOD?”
No. Vegas is non-destructive (which is GOOD).
Edward Troxel
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Yes, render to AVI will make a new file. I do this when I want to trim my work file. My preference is to “render to a new track” so that I don’t have to leave the project.
Be sure to delete the old tracks and hit the “remove unused media” from the project media window before you delete the old files from your hard-disk.
Also, when you finish the project, you can do a “save as” and check the box to copy the media. Do this to a new directory and you will have the veg file and media in that new directory. It’s a good way to clean up a project directory.
Stephen Mann
MannMade Digital Video
San Jose, CA
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