[Christine Neuvil]

Thanks Wayne! I like the idea of Happy Otter Scripts – a bridge between Vegas and open source tools. I’ll try it, hopefully this month.

[Christine Neuvil]

Did you ever get that script to work?
Did you ever find an alternate solution?
Did Jill Simpson’s finding that quotes (“in order”) needed to be replaced with apostrophes (‘in order’) help?
Anyone know if other video editing software allows batch render to subclips (a) if the timeline or trimmer contains a single source file? (b) if the timeline or trimmer contains multiple but separated source files (with each region from a single source file)? (I know you can’t create sub-clips from a region if the region combines multiple source files, aka clips.)
Thanks

[Christine Neuvil]

A much-belated Thanks.
Alas, it’s only virtually loss-less if I choose the right Render Template(s).
Why can’t Vegas provide an option: “Match Render Template to Original”?
My current project’s timeline has videos from various sources, each with different formats/specs. I think the “Match Render Template to Original” button should render each region with its source’s original format/specs.
Can that suggestion go to Magix staff and/or non-Magix coders?
Thanks again.

[Christine Neuvil]

Can anyone help with my main questions (the first two)?

[Christine Neuvil]

I press L once while holding down K, it plays slow-mo.
If I press L twice or more, while holding down K, I would have thought it would go even more slow-mo, but no, it goes faster.
I don’t know if I need to go slower than the one slow-mo speed, but … is there a way to preview in super-slow-mo?

[Christine Neuvil]

Thanks! Perfect!

(If I just give a thumbs-up / “like”, do you get notified of that? Do you think people would prefer to receive a “like” or a reply saying “Thanks!”)

[Christine Neuvil]

I googled

“smart render” OR “smart rendering” “vegas 13” OR “vegas pro 13” mpeg2 dv avc

but could not find relevant results.

[John Rofrano] “[Vegas] will “smart render” MPEG2 and DV, but not AVC video.
“
Is this still correct 6 years later, for Vegas 13?

For MPEG2 and DV, would you recommend using Vegas’ “Smart Rendering” or is other software better at clipping/trimming without rendering?

For formats that Vegas can’t Smart Render, what would you recommend? Preferably free.

I see the original post-er was using Machete and MPEG_Streamclip. (I don’t know either.)

Elsewhere I found:
“To edit a movie without rendering, you have to cut on I-frames. These are approx every 1 sec – so cuts may not be as exact as you want. I use Avidemux for this – despite the name, it will edit mp4, mkv etc. […] With Avidemux, remember to set the output container correctly (to mp4 etc.”

“h.264 is not an all-I-frame codec. That means that the frames are dependant on other frames. This is a problem when you cut it, because you may be trimming off the frames on which it depends. You’ll find that it will have to be at least partially re-encoded no matter what you use.”

“If splitting/cutting all you need, take a look at AVS Video Remaker”

Bonus Q:
The following seems to allow splicing/cutting within the video (not just trimming the ends!!!) and saving without re-rendering:
“If you can script yourself, all you need to do is call FFmpeg repeatedly:
ffmpeg -ss [start-time] -i input.mp4 -c copy -t [clip-time] output.mp4
Here, start and clip times can be in the form HH:MM:SS.mmmm, or just in seconds.
To give you a rough idea how that’d look like in Ruby, see this Gist of mine. It contains a script that takes an edit list, a folder of videos, and cuts them accordingly.”
That’s a reply to a question asking how to batch edit videos. I don’t know if I need to batch edit videos, and using code seems perhaps more complex than I need, but it does enable cutting within the video. Do you know of any other software that enables cutting within the video? Oh! Does Vegas’ Smart Rendering work for cuts within the video, if you have no other kinds of edits and no crossover transitions?

Thanks

[Christine Neuvil]

Thanks Andrew! So simple! And yet!: The events stay the same duration, so although they are sped up, the clips now don’t cut off where I had spliced them. Thoughts?

[Christine Neuvil]

Solved. The small/inset video had been spliced. When I deleted that track and re-added the video, the P-in-P worked. I guess Track Motion only works on unspliced / single-event videos. The P-in-P stays in effect if I do then splice and delete sections.
(Thanks Marco for offering help.)

[Christine Neuvil]

Thanks!