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Opinions on MPEG vs AVI Please…
Hi there…
I am wondering…
I’m using Vegas 6.0, and DVDA 3.0…
My workflow is this… I have a few hundred clips that I use over and over in different projects that are eventually put on DVD.
Should I keep them as avi…edit my project (very light editing, just adding clips with one second dissolves) and render anew… for DVD burning?
Or should I render them as MPEG/ac3 and then add them to DVDA menu authoring… or MPEG/MPEG audio for editing in Vegas and rerender to MPEG/ac3 for single movie authoring?
Pitfalls???
Advantages???
Thanks…
Steve
Sony VX-1000, P4, AMD, AMD64 laptop,
VegasVideo, ReelDVD, DVFILM, Lightwave, Photoshop, 18 years Independent Production -
1 Reply
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If you can incorporate your “stock” clips and merge them with your other content within DVDA then by all means do so and use them as MPEG-2.
If they have to be edited with new material then do it in vegas as AVI-DV. Under no circumstances should you bring MPEG-2 into Vegas as editing source if you can possibly avoid it.
So, we’re talking about a balance of efficient workflow vs. not wanting to edit and recompress MPEG-2 because a second round of compression sacrifices too much image quality.
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