Can you break a video strip into 3 separate ‘renders’ in one go?

[Mike Kujbida]

.ifo files are very small.
Did you mean to say a .iso file?

[Amanda Duff]

Thanks for your reply.

Pretty sure it’s .ifo – it’s small but if I drop it into VEgas it seems to bring everything elise in ‘in order’ if you know what I mean, without it, i have to bring in individual vob files.

Either way, I’m probably asking the quesion the wrong way.

Say I have a strip of video/audio that has come from a tv recording. I want to cut it into three sections, render them, then burn them to a dvd like 3 tv shows.

Can this all be done through Vegas? At the moment I do rendering (individually) through Vegas and burning to disc through Architect to allow a menu.

Does that sound correct?

Thanks.

[Dieter Vanwijnsberghe]

That sounds correct,
You’ll need to render the 3 selections as MPG2,
then import them into a Architect project and add a menu for example

[Mike Kujbida]

You might want to consider one of the offerings from Womble for doing what you want to do.
https://www.womble.com/
Vegas is definitely capable of doing this but it will take longer.
How are you initially recording the shows?
It sounds like a DVD recorder but you don’t say and I don’t want to guess wrong.

It sounds like you’re doing things properly.
Vegas does the initial encoding (rendering) and then use DVDA to do the actual disc authoring with menus.

[Amanda Duff]

thanks, that’s what I do but I thought maybe that was a long way around, seems like it’s right though.

ta.

[Mike Kujbida]

It is a long process but, unless you use a product such as I recommended, it’s the only way to do it.

[Amanda Duff]

yes thanks sounds like i’m on the right track.

will look at womble.

i record on a dvd recorder to disc, then disc to computer which is a pain but I don’t know how to go from dvd recorder DIRECTLY to my computer after the fact. i.e. I can do real life recordings through a pinnacle box however that slows my computer down so much that I can’t do any other work.

If I try and transfer from dvd recorder to computer via hdmi, I lose captions (which I must have).

so basically, this is another question now but think i’ve already asked it. don’t know how to go directly from dvd recorder hard drive to computer AND keep captions AND do it after the fact (i.e. not live).

Sorry it’s morphed into something else (that I’ve asked previously but if you want to chime in please feel free.
I have a stb but when i turn on ‘record’ the captions disappear and I am told that I can get them after dumuxing etc but I am in a workplace that that copious amounts of subtitling to be done by little ol’ me only so I don’t have the time to be trying to figure out the whole muxing/demuxing situation. plus the stb will only copy to a fat32 drive and my 1tb drive is esata so i’m using ‘little’ usb’s and really not getting anywhere fast!

Oh dear, there’s my whinge.
thanks for your help.

[Mike Kujbida]

All newer versions of Vegas have a DVD import feature.
It’s found under File – Import – DVD Camcorder Disc.
It was originally meant for miniDVDs but works equally well with regular (non copy-protected) discs.
Follow the prompts that come up and be sure to specify a location for the converted files to be saved to.
It converts the .VOB files on a DVD to MPEG-2 files that can be dropped on a Vegas timeline.

I have no idea whether it keeps the captioning track as this has never been a concern for me.

Womble looks like it might be a good program for you as you don’t need to get into all kinds of other utilities that can be rather convoluted.
They have a program called Easysub that looks promising.
Trial versions are available so download them and see what you think.