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Reworking an old family DVD
I was given an family DVD’s along with some new video footage & asked to see if I could add the additional footage to the disk so as to have a more complete video of the baby over the years. Its easy to edit the new footage but the originals that went into making the old DVD has long gone. I know that I can do the job but I was concerned about loosing some quality from the original footage since it isn’t that great to begin with. It seems what needs to be done to to import the original footage into Vegas with little or no loss of quality it that’s possible Then add any new footage into the project before rendering out the project & creating new menus in DVDA3.
What is the best way to get the old video onto the time line? Convert the VOB files to MPEG2 using a program like VideoReDo to do this job or is their some way to get the files directly from the disk using Vegas 6?
I think that I have to avoid having both old & new material on the time line at the time of rendering so as to avoid getting the old material from being re rendered.
I’m guessing that any new material has to be added as a separate file & imported into DVDA as then use it as an extra or a new chapter. I’m assuming that the original menus can’t be reuses or added to. I’m likely to find that the old & new material will be encoded at different bit rates. Can DVDA handle that situation?
Am I on the right track or is there a better way to tackle this job? Any other suggestions will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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Vegas 6 added the capability to import DVD files with version 6.0c.
File – Import – DVD Camcorder Disc.
While originally designed for the miniDVD discs, it works with full-sized DVDs as well.
It may take some time to build all the files so be patient while this is going on.Your concerns about re-rendering the original material are valid.
Vegas 8 will not re-render original material as long as you use the same render settings as when it was first done (i.e. bitrate).For this reason, I’d probably use VideoReDo or Womble as it’s my understanding that they will take the original material and allow you to add new material (that you’ve created and rendered to MPEG-2 from Vegas) without unnecessary re-rendering.
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Word of caution, on some systems that don’t have enough RAM, or if you’ve got background apps running while importing a full-length or lots of chapters DVD such as a slide show, sometimes Vegas will buffer out and simply crash or lock up.
Get around this by turning off View Frames and Waveforms.
Recently had a project that had 98 chapters, and it would crash every system we have.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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Is there any tool that can tell me the exact bit rate used on the original DVD & would it be helpful in knowing what bit rate to use on the newer material?
Am I on the right track when I suggested that any new material should be in a separate file for both Vegas & DVDA? I seem to recall that if DVDA finds that each separate file is a compliant MPEG2 file it won’t touch them & that you can actually have files with different bit rates on then & they won’t get re rendered. Is this correct?
Could I have any other problems like if one file was interlaced & another one wasn’t. If Vegas can take the old video which I suspect is interlaced would converting it to progressive scan result in re compression?
Thanks in advance
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I did what was suggested, imported the old files directly from the DVD & it worked well in fact it even split up the original into the DVD’s chapters. What I don’t understand is that one of these chapters has no audio. I went back to the DVD which was still in the DVD burner & told PowerDVD to play it & it did. When it was played here there is audio for the same chapter. Why should this be so?
Thanks in advance
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Hi, this post just explained to me why my dvd wasn’t importing into vegas 8.. so thanks!
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