editing DVD video with Vegas

Masoncool wrote on 10/26/2008, 8:53 AM
I have some family DVDs I want to edit and take out some less important video to make these two DVDs into one cool DVD without those boring spots that are on the original two discs.

Importing the DVDs into the computer is no problem, they are currently Mpeg files on the Hard Drive and should be the same picture quality as the DVDs.

So I'm trying to create a New Project with Sony Vegas and I have the option set so that my end result, is of the same quality as the project files. But when I click "Make Movie" and "Save to HDD" it looks like all the video footage left in the timeline after edits, is being Re-Rendered completely. Even the sections of the movie that don't have any edits. I thought unedited parts would just copy over, without a Re-Render and loss of quality?

I'm also losing some Frames of film around edits and crossfades. Lets say I have an edit at frame #1233. After the new Mpeg file is created, it has made the cut at #1228 instead and I lost 5 frames of film. Why am I losing frames at cuts?

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 10/26/2008, 12:22 PM
You didn't tell us how exactly you exported. What kind of format and all.

As for the missing frames, that's a bug, file a bug report with Sony.
Masoncool wrote on 10/26/2008, 3:13 PM
exporting to Mpeg 2, because the original file is Mpeg 2 imported from the DVD and I was trying to keep the parts of the file where I didn't edit, to copy over exactly as the original. but it looks like it's re-rendering all of the file and not just where the edits are.
Eugenia wrote on 10/26/2008, 3:37 PM
From what I know, only VMS9 supports smart rendering on mpeg2, do you use vms9 instead of 7/8?