Did you know

Sonisfear wrote on 10/21/2006, 9:32 PM

I think Sony should a a "Did you know" tips and trick section to the forum just to remind us things that Vegas can do.

I forgot that Vegas can load a whole project as a media file.

I was rendering out sections of my wedding videos and then assembling them in a new project which would take hours to render each section and then render again when the master assemble project was done. I do this to prevent damaging or shift clips that belong to other sections.

I freaked when I tried importing a not rendered project file (.veg) in the media pool. Then have the whole project play as a single clip on the timeline. Awesome... this saves me lots of time. You can then delet dead air spaces add efx or open the project in a differnet windw for modifications.

and render once the whole project.

now what would be a neto trick is if you could import that assembley .veg file into DVD architech and render it only on output to dvd.

I know you can render as mpeg out of vegas and save time but work in pure HDV. some how DVD arch dose abetter job of mpeg compression from a .M2T file.

Comments

fldave wrote on 10/21/2006, 9:48 PM

Welcome to the wonderful world of Nested Veg files!

GlennChan wrote on 10/21/2006, 9:49 PM

I'm not saying that I don't want to know all of Vegas' tips and tricks but personally, I find that I never read the tips and tricks window of any program.

It might just be easier to buy a training DVD, or look up a website online that lists tips and trick, or read this forum. It's searchable, and the tips are better than the ones the programmers come up with, and it'll be more updated.

bStro wrote on 10/22/2006, 7:41 AM

I think Sony should a a "Did you know" tips and trick section to the forum just to remind us things that Vegas can do.

I think the forum itself is a pretty good source for that sort of thing. I learn a few "tips and tricks" every week just by reading posts from the people that either use them regularly or just discovered them in the course of their work. Trouble with "officially sanctioned" sections like that provided by the software company itself is that the writers eventually put it on the back burner and the content goes stale. After a brief period of great tips, they either don't get updated or turn into a series of, "Did you know...you can cut clips in half using the Split command? Isn't that amazing?!"

now what would be a neto trick is if you could import that assembley .veg file into DVD architech and render it only on output to dvd.

Dunno. I forsee that being more trouble programatically than it's worth. I think Vegas should do what it does, and DVD Architect should do what it does. Seems like having DVDA accept a VEG file would require either a) for DVDA to have a full-fledged renderer (it's just got an encoder right now) that understands all the bits and bobs of a Vegas project (and that's a lot of information, even if it's a small file); or b) for a sort of "mini-Vegas" to run in the background. But that's just my opinion. :)

some how DVD arch dose abetter job of mpeg compression from a .M2T file.

They both use the same encoder. Might just be a matter of altering your encode (or even project) settings. Vegas gives a lot more options for encoding than DVD Architect does, and a "down side" of more options is a greater chance of error. (On the other hand, the error is easier to fix if there are enough options to allow it. ;) What template are you using in Vegas?

Rob