Please Help !

[Mary Waitrovich]

There are numerous ways out of your dilemma. One way: Render your project as an NTSC DV .avi file. You can burn that to a CD-ROM or re-render it to other formats without losing quality. Basically, render the file you want to put on the CD, then you can remove the DVD without losing anything.

Mary Waitrovich
UW-Madison

[Terry Esslinger]

I assume that you have a DVD burner. You are mixing up terms DVD and CD.

InVegas use import from camcorder DVD (even though it is not a camcorder DVD that you are importing from). This will save your files in the normal capture file that you set up in the preferences as wel as place them in the project. You will then be able to remove the DVD from the player and the program will not be looking to the player for the files.

[Ryan Griffen]

Mary and Terry –

Thank you so much for the responses. I think I was mixing up the terms DVD and CD. I am a major rookie with this stuff, so I may have to play around with Mary’s directions to see if I can figure it out.

Terry, I don’t have a CD burner (Maybe I should buy one). I just have a normal CD drive on my computer where I had to put the DVD of the home video clips I wanted to import. So now I want to save my Sony Vegas movie onto a CD, but I can’t do it because when I remove the DVD with the video clips from the disk drive I lose the clips in Vegas (Hopefully that explanation was more clear).

I tried the import from camcorder, but I dont think it worked. I will try it again.

Thank you so much for your time.

Ryan

Thanks,
Ryan

[Danny Hays]

I believe you can save and check save media with the VEG file. This should copy the files to your hard drive and will make for alot faster editing as your not haveing it read from the DVD.
Hope this helps. Danny Hays

[Allen Zagel]

Whoa! Maybe I’m missing something here but how can you save (burn)files to a CD when you don’t have a burner?

You got to have a way to burn the DC/DVD’s, otherwise all you can do is ‘play’ the media, or copy files off the media if it’s not copy protected.

Allen

ASX Media Group, Inc.
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[Terry Esslinger]

Boy, I am totally confused here now!

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I assume ‘the program’ is Vegas (Studio or Pro?)
How did you import a DVD file? You state later that you only have a CD player on the computer.
How did you upload the VOB file and where did you upload it to?
The VOB file should have an audio.ts file (which is probably empty) and a video.ts file.

<<, I have now finished the movie and want to burn it to a CD,>>
I assume you mean finished editing and you want to burn it to a DVD not CD. If you have a .veg project that will play back from the time line you should be able to make an MPG2 file with it. You need it as an MPG2 file in order to make a DVD – thats the rules. You can render to a n MPG2 with the original files on a DVD in the DVD player (not CD player) but it will be VERY slow. Better that you transferred the files from the DVD disc to your hard drive. If the original files are on your hard drive you should be able to remove the DVD from the drive and the media will stay in your project (not go offline)

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Importing them into Vegas will not save them to the hard drive, they are still in there original position (the disc)

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You can’t burn a DVD because your files need to be saved to the hard drive AND you need a DVD burner.

Hope this helps.