deleting raw footage

[Peter Wright]

Yes – if your rendered avi contains everything you need for later MPEG2 rendering, you can delete and reclaim all that space used by the camera capture.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Gary & yvonne]

Thanks Peter…….also is the benifit of rendering to a avi file more secure/safer in the sense of not losing it, compared to just leaving it as a on going saved vcap file on your timeline until your ready to render to mpeg2?

[Peter Wright]

It’s tidier but not necessarily safer. Saving as vidcap file only means you’d have to recapture everything to reconstitute your project, if you had already deleted the original files.

I’m not sure why you need a delay before rendering to MPEG2 – normally if the project is finished enough to save as a rendered avi, it’s also ready for rendering to MPEG2.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Gary & yvonne]

Peter you said…..Saving as vidcap file only means you’d have to recapture everything to reconstitute your project, if you had already deleted the original files.
If I accidently deleate my original files, so I couldn’t load my vidcap clip onto the timeline. After I recapture my raw footage can I click on recapture vidclip and it would automatically re-assemble my edited clip? That would be too good to be true….lol

[Peter Wright]

Let’s clarify a few terms here.

A vidcap file is a CAPTURE file, not to be confused with a .veg PROJECT file. A vidcap file cannot be “loaded onto the timeline”. It can be used in Vidcap to recapture the original footage, provided you still have the original camera tapes and have carefully named them. (This is assuming the original footage was DV.)

Provided you have still got the .veg file, you can “rebuild” your original project this way, but don’t forget you also need any .wav files or graphics such as .jpg or .png files that may have been included.
I would always archive enough data to do this – so on CD or data DVD I would normally have the .veg file, plus wav files and stills, and also keep back up copies of the final DVD data.

Personally, I always put the finished project out to DV tape, even if I’m only going out to DVD. That way I can quickly recapture this any time.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Gary & yvonne]

Thanks alot Peter,
You said:
Personally, I always put the finished project out to DV tape, even if I’m only going out to DVD. That way I can quickly recapture this any time.
Do you lose any quality that is noticable if you were to recapture your dv tape and burn another dvd for your client.

[Peter Wright]

The quality is kept really good by keeping a DV Master – I used to use these for Tape duplication also, but the demand has almost stopped.

For later DVD burns, I would use either back-up AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders kept on Hard Drive, or a back up DVD to copy – no need to re-author.

If on the other hand, some other version of the project was required, I have the DV Master to recapture and start again.

Peter Wright
Perth, Western Oz
http://www.allroundvision.com.au

[Liam Kennedy]

[gary & yvonne] “Do you lose any quality that is noticable if you were to recapture your dv tape and burn another dvd for your client.”

You lose nothing in terms of quality… as the version your stored to tape is eactly the same version that you get back off the tape (that’s the advantage of DV – it’s all Digital – 1’s and 0’s on the tape)

[Allen Zagel]

Once you’re finished, you can click “save-as” and check the box “copy-and-trim-media” . Select a folder and Vegas will save only the cuts and stuff you actually used in you project.

When I’m finished with a project, I save the VEG file along with the sfk (audio)files. I have the original tape so I can re-capture it if necessary. The VEG file has all your information about the cuts, FX etc. Then I delete the original captured file freeing up a lot of space.
Allen

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