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MPEG2 Editing
Will Vegas 6 handle editing a commercial DVD (MPEG2)? I have tried Pinnacle Studio and Adobe Premier and they both freeze. Ulead Studio 8 works but Media Studio does not. So I thought I would ask the experts if Vegas 6 will work. I would like to upgrade from Ulead 8 to a more powerful editor but I need it to edit MPEG2’s. The trail version of Vegas 6 does not let you edit MPEG’s so I can’t try it out.
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2 Replies
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MPEG2 is NOT a good editing format. You’ll have more problems using MPEG2 than using DV-AVI (for instance). Plus, your quality will be reduced because you will be recompressing a compressed file for your final output.
Having said that, you should be able to load MPEG2 on the timeline. If the audio is AC3, Vegas will not see it.
What I sometimes do is simply plug the DVD player into my convertor and then capture as DV-AVI. DV-AVI is much easier to work with.
Edward Troxel
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If the goal is really editing dvd’s, Vegas isn’t the right application. Recently I found an incredibly good MPEG editor called Womble MPEG video wizard (https://www.womble.com/). It is an amazing program and absolutely unique in its kind: frame accurate MPEG2 editing without any re-encoding. No quality loss at all. You can add titles, edit, add transitions, etc. If you have to repair that one very small mistake in that 120 minutes 3 pass VBR dvd you just made, it will save you many hours of rendering. I’ve been playing with the demo, and adore it.
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