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Rendering issue with MPG2 files..
Since I’m relatively new in the video editing
I have a question about rendering with Vegas6.
I have 2 MPG2 files to edit & mix for a final
edited show I recorded last year.
2 separate cameras, 2 MPG2 files.Since I started recording video files with a PC
only then I didn’t know
(and didn’t have the good hardware to do it nether)
it’s better not record in MPG2 files for source files
to be edited since they are too much compressed
and they will have to be again on the rendering
process..
Well now I’m stuck with those MPG2 files
and I don’t know how to set the rendering parameters
to ‘tell’ Vegas not to recompress when possible..
Those MPG files were recorded with an ATI ALL IN WONDER
card with the ATI capture installed back then.
That ATI capture software would only permit
recording in MPG2 format so…
Since I don’t have any utility soft to tell me
the file’s properties (video bit rates, audio type/rates,
Vegas doesn’t tell the video bit rate of my source files)
this could be handy so I could set the render parameters
to be the same as the source MPG2 files to keep
from recompressing??
Sorry for the long explaination.
Any help.
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5 Replies
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Vegas will always recompress your Mpeg2 files. ( I hoope this changes some day). In the meantime you should look into software that is made for Mpeg editing such as Womble’s Mpeg Video Wizard. It works as you have described by recomressing only transitions, etc.
Gary
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When starting with MPEG2 files – EVERY FRAME will be decompressed. There is no way for Vegas to go from MPEG2 to MPEG2 without decompressing and recompressing every frame. So there’s no way “to ‘tell’ Vegas not to recompress when possible“.
There are some programs that will let you split and combine MPEG2 files, though. Take a look at Womble. This would let you do “cuts only” editing and would also prevent the recompression.
Edward Troxel
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Ok thanks.
Can Womble edit 2 MPG’s video tracks
at the same time to enable ‘camera switching’
like final result? -
No.
Gary
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Having used a few different NLEs lately, this is the one area where I would recommend another package over Vegas. Please note this is the ONLY reason for recommending this, but Ulead Media Studio Pro does a reasonable job of allowing you to edit MPEG-2 and only recompress what is needed. In general I wouldn’t recommend MSPro over Vegas, but in this one and very particular case, Ulead does indeed do it better than Vegas.
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Terje A. Bergesen
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