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i want mpg file from Vegas Movie Studio Plat 9.0
I captured a 1080i mpg file (Sony HDR-HC3) from a tape using Adobe Premiere CS2. Of course, no edits can be done on that file using Premiere until it creates cache files for it (and Premiere isn’t correctly creating those files), so I can’t use Premiere for any editing of this file. My task here is to take a single slice of contiguous footage (in mpg form) out of this larger file. Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 will successfully edit the file, but when requesting mpg (Main Concept Mpeg-2) output, it fools you into thinking that its going to be outputting an .mpg file and instead creates .m2t and .m2t.sfl files in its place. I’m looking for independently usable output as the original .mpg was. What am I going to do with an .m2t file? Why did it tell me it was saving a .mpg version of my requested output when in fact it wasn’t? I mean, what can be more frustrating – when I thought this was going to be a 10 minute quickie type of operation? No re-encode or anything like that. Very simple thing here, after all. Should I instead use the Trimmer inside of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum? Please help me.
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M2T is an MPEG2 file (MPEG2 Transport Stream) the language of HDV.
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What exactly did you hope to end up with?
As Terry said, your camera is HDV and the files have an M2T extension to signify that they are HDV MPEG-2 Transport streams. Vegas gave you an M2T file. That is all you will get without re-encoding (i.e., the same format as the source).
If you want an MPG file then you need to re-encode the high definition M2T file into an standard definition MPG file by choosing one of the MPEG2 DVD templates.
I’m not sure what Premiere CS2 left you to work with but if it didn’t capture the raw M2T files then I would recapture everything in Vegas so that you have the original M2T’s to work with.
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