Vegas Lag

[Edward Troxel]

Why don’t you do a File – Import – Camcorder DVD Disc?

Edward Troxel

[Brian Bilgen]

I tried that originally and have the same results as copying it to my hard drive.

[Allen Zagel]

As Mike said above regarding extra hard drives. My 2 extra internals are SATA 250gB each. 1 of those is strictly for my captures and files I’m currently working on.

My 2 external drives, 1 Seagate 750gB USB2/1394 Firewire, using the firewire connection, and a WD My-Book 300gB same USB/firewire using the Firewire connection. I use these for storing finished vid’s I need to keep or those on hold waiting for more work.

Ha! You can never have too much hard drive space! 😉 I’m not sure but some or all of your problems may just disappear once you get your video files on another disk.

Allen

[Rick Mac]

Don’t mean to sound like I’m harping but the vob is a
container for some type of file using some type of codec.
I’m guessing that your camera is a high def camera.

Is it HDV, or AVCHD.
If the later is requires a very fast computer.

What is the model of your camcorder and what are
your computer specs.

Have a good day.

Later…Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Brian Bilgen]

No my camera is the entry level Sony DCR-DVD108 Handycam, not a HD camera.

From everything I am reading or starting to find out it seems I am going to have little success editing once done with a disc and/or discs.

[Rick Mac]

Brian,

I looked up your camcorder and it creates standard definition
mpeg-2 files just like a standard DVD. Generally speaking
mpeg-2 is a highly compressed format (that is code for) it needs a really fast computer to decompress the video in realtime. I’m not sure just how fast your computer needs to be to handle your video smoothly. It is certainly more processor intensive to edit than DV. Perhaps someone else can jump in here that edits natively mpeg from their camera, and shed some light on editing this type of file.

That being said, you can always transcode (convert) your mpeg-2 files to DV files before editing. Just about any current computer can smoothly edit DV-files. Once transcoded edit the DV files istead of the mpeg-2’s.

You should have a second hard drive in your computer that your video files live in. Trying to play and capture video to your C: drive is a bad idea. Performance will suffer.

You can use the batch render script in Vegas to transcode your mpeg-2 files to DV. If you think you want to give that a try let me know in your next post and I will explain further.

The down side to transcode is that it will create a new video file besides your original, so that will require more drive space. The other drawback is that it will take a bit of time for Vegas to transcode your mpeg-2 to DV before you can edit.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377

[Brian Bilgen]

Rick thanks for taking the time to research and help.

I would be interested in learning how to transcode/convert my files in Vegas if possible. I am not so worried about space because after I make my final DVD I plan on that being my copy of the footage. I would then erase any video footage from the hard drive.

I have a hard drive here now that I am going to look into making a secondary internal drive.

[Edward Troxel]

To convert it, just drop it on the timeline, go to File – Render As, pick “AVI” as the file type and NTSC-DV or PAL-DV as the preset (whichever is applicable).

Edward Troxel

[Rick Mac]

As you can see from Edward’s post it is very easy
to transcode your video clip. Once it has finished transcoding (rendering) remove the mpeg file from the timeline and drag the new DV version unto the timeline.
Then make sure that you select the “DV NTSC” Preset in your project settings (if in the US) “DV PAL” if across the pond.
Now you are ready to edit. DV will preview much smoother.

Don’t worry about the Batch Render method I was talking about earlier. Edward’s method is better for your needs.
If you had a lot of clips to transcode their is a batch render script that can automate the task for you. But since you have only one large clip Edward’s way is the best.

Let us know how it goes.

Regards, Rick.

Rick Mac
Director of Audio Production
TCT Network – Directv 377