Vegas 9 Mpeg2 Question

[John Rofrano]

Try using File | Render As… and select an MPEG2 template that includes audio. (i.e., check the audio tab and make sure audio it turned on)

~jr

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[David Hughes]

I saved as “render as” and used the Mpeg2 template. I now have one file with an M2T extension 47,130KB and another file with a M2T.SFL extension. Is this what I want?

Thanks for your help by the way.
DH

[John Rofrano]

The M2T is the only file you need. The SFL file is metadata that Vegas uses to draw wave forms. It can be safely deleted and Vegas will rebuild it when it needs it.

~jr

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[David Hughes]

Thank you for your outstanding help and quick response.
DH

[David Hughes]

One more question (I hope)–I now have the M2t file extension on the clips–is this a true Mpeg2 file? Also, when I go to copy the files to a disc, the message says it is unable to copy the file? Help.
DH

[John Rofrano]

> One more question (I hope)

Nope. I see two questions. 😉

> I now have the M2t file extension on the clips–is this a true Mpeg2 file?

Well… define “true”. It is an MPEG-2 Transport Stream file used by HDV cameras and Blu-ray discs. It is NOT an MPEG-2 format that would work with a DVD player.

> Also, when I go to copy the files to a disc, the message says it is unable to copy the file? Help.

How are you copying files to disc when it says you can’t copy?

I guess it’s a little late to be asking this but better late then never:

What exactly are you trying to do?

(a) Author a DVD?
(b) Author a Blu-ray disc?
(c) Copy a data file to a data disc?
(d) None of the above

I’m just not clear on what you are trying to accomplish so it’s hard to give you advice.

~jr

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[David Hughes]

The answer is “C”, copy a data file to a disk. I have my files in a folder, I highlighted each file, clicked copy file under “file and folder tasks”, and selected my DVD burner drive “D:” and receive the message “Windows is unable to copy file”.

Thank in advance for your help–Clearly I must be doing something very wrong.
DH

[John Rofrano]

Is the combined size of the files smaller than the capacity of the DVD disc? A DVD can hold about 4.7GB of data files. M2T files are approximately 13GB/hr which means the longest playing file you can fit on a DVD is about 20 min. Also when Windows copies files to a CD or DVD it actually copies them to a temp location on your C: drive first. That location needs to have enough room to hold the files as well.

If dragging and dripping in Windows doesn’t work, you may need to use a burning program to make the disc. I use to use Nero but not any more. It can really mess up your video editing machine with all of the junk it installs and it is incompatible with applications like Boris RED. I think Nero 6 was the last version that was worth using. Use whatever burning program you might have to make the disc if native Windows doesn’t work.

~jr

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[David Hughes]

I got a hold of Nero7 which did the trick. Thank you for your patience and intuitive thinking. My editing program seems to be working normally, so perhaps they fixed the issues (yeah, right) with Nero7??
DH