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Need Some Advice…
A client just provided me footage that was stored on his laptop. This was originally shot on a consumer-grade camcorder that saves its footage to a hard drive.
The files on the lap top have the “.MPG” extention. When I right click and select properties, the type of file says “Movie Clip.”
I need to take this footage, edit it and then burn to DVD. Will rendering this to MPEG 2 further degrade the quality? What workflow will allow me to output this to DVD with the least amount of quality loss?
When I play the raw files in Windows Media Player they look fairly decent. However, they look a bit worse when I drag them to my Vegas timeline. Even with preview on best, the look much more grainy.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
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2 Replies
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if they’re mpeg files to start with, and you’re just cutting, i’d be using womble.
putting mpeg on timeline will look crappy in prevew anyway, but it’s going to take a hit when vegas re-encodes it.
afaik, there’s no smart render in vegas for this type of file. i stand to be corrected though.
leslie
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In your preferences general tab bottom of list is “Enable no-recompress long-gop renders” but I think this may be for HDV m2t files only. I believe it will only recompress areas where effects and overlaping video ect. A simple test should show quicker renders if it works. Danny
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