[Paul Gregory]

I see that I said the files recorded was MPEG2 when actually it’s MPEG2TS, if this makes any difference. As far as I know the only difference is that the TS version also has features like subtitles embedded in it. If this is the case is there any way for Vegas Pro to see & keep these subtitles?

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

When I return from a holiday & am finished shooting I like to view all stills & videos & then just whittle away at the file so as to eliminate all of things I can’t possible ever use. You might have tried shooting a scene & someone walks into view that you don’t want or you decide that another shot leaves you with what you had wanted & that the other ones are superfluous. I do this so that there are fewer pieces that you have to end up sorting into a video project. All of these remaining stills & videos are the ones I wish to keep & since they were all taken with synchronized times anything taken from whatever source should be able to be accessed easily & having the ‘date taken’ & the name of where it was taken should help immeasurably.

In this file would be stills that I might like to crop or enhance or videos that I would like to trim.

My Sony HD camcorder came with a a program called PMB which went some of the way to achieving this since you could do simple cropping & enhancement of stills or take a 40 second clip & just keep 6 seconds of it or do a still capture. It could display the stills & videos together in date taken sequence a I recall. It could even rename either the the videos or stills but only one at a time.

The PMB program was replaced by Sony with another which took things further away from what I wished to achieved.

Incidentally I have a friend who was an identical Sony camcorder which also has a large hard drive which he recons he will never fill with newly taken video files & had the idea that as he finished each new project he could use some of the unused space on the camcorders hard drive to store completed projects. I told him that I don’t think that he can use his camcorder as a storage device.

In the mean time I have been using Adobe Photoshop Elements to import stills & videos & then display them either singularly or together. Unfortunately since I don’t have Adobe Premier installed as well I don’t get to see thumbnails for the videos, just blank empty frames.

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

I know what to do with the EXIF data from stills but what I’m asking about is for video clips. For instance the camera says “PGH (AVCHD) progressive. GPS information is added & record video of 1920×1080 size”

There is also a GFS setting that says the same thing. Are we talking about the same thing?

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

If I wished to combine a few shorter DVD’s from old holidays than I suppose that this would be a start. Presumably this file on timeline would have to be rendered out again so that I could bring it into DVDA?

Is there any similar tool that would give DVDA it’s original menu back without having to recreate it?

Would I be better of dragging more VTS_01_0.IFO files to the timeline?

If the total size were to exceed 8.5gb I suppose that I could put it all onto a Blu-ray disc?

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

I think that some of the codec packs allow you to install just the codec’s that you need rather than all of them.

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

I’m just stating to set up home networking & have the cat cable now installed. Most of the files that I will wish to play on a media player are MKV because I can turn on/off subtitles. I know that VLC does this & I have it installed on my PC.

The reason that I’m asking about Windows Media Player is because I was told that this was best for sharing files on a Home network. If this is not the case I would like to get other recommendations?

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

Maybe there is another option. I haven’t tried this myself so I can’t be certain if it works.

The popular free cleanup utility CCleaner appears to have an option to automatically delete any type of file that you nominate every time that this program the run.

Thanks in advance

[Paul Gregory]

It’s Chris’s. Since the only think that I see is z1which suggests perhaps a missing link on that reply?

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[Paul Gregory]

I don’t understand your reply.

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[Paul Gregory]

I have been playing around trying to see what has been happening. Your aware that if you double click anywhere on a clip the entire clip gets selected. Well I double clicked on the first picture on the problem area & it correctly selected just that one clip. But if I then double clicked on the next clip to the right I get highlighted about 6 clips to the right as well as is the first one. Its as if the first clip was both alone & in a group at the same time. I can’t see what I might had done to get in this position in the first place or a very quick & easy way to fix it.

What I’ll do is get the properties of each picture in the group & drag them onto the timeline & then delete the grouped pictures. I’m still puzzled as to why it happened.

Thanks in advance