I wanted to preserve a few segments of a long HDV session in native HDV so I can render to some future format some day. With DV, I can simply cut and then print to tape, and the original cut footage is sent to tape without further alteration.
However, when I do this same thing with HDV, it appears as though the entire length of my project is being re-rendered.
Why??
I realize that HDV used MPEG-2 and long GOP compression. I therefore fully understand the need to re-compress the section around the cut in order to create a new GOP around the cut. But, it further seems to me that such an operation should involve no more than 15-30 frames on either side of the cut.
Why is the entire tape being re-rendered??
[Edit]
Wow, Vegas is even worse than I thought. If you simply put an m2t file on the timeline, and then try to print it to HDV, it insists on re-rendering a file that has had nothing done to it! Stupid. I'm wasting a lot of time here, and I don't like that.
However, when I do this same thing with HDV, it appears as though the entire length of my project is being re-rendered.
Why??
I realize that HDV used MPEG-2 and long GOP compression. I therefore fully understand the need to re-compress the section around the cut in order to create a new GOP around the cut. But, it further seems to me that such an operation should involve no more than 15-30 frames on either side of the cut.
Why is the entire tape being re-rendered??
[Edit]
Wow, Vegas is even worse than I thought. If you simply put an m2t file on the timeline, and then try to print it to HDV, it insists on re-rendering a file that has had nothing done to it! Stupid. I'm wasting a lot of time here, and I don't like that.