export segment of large .m2t file to tape?

john-beale wrote on 6/21/2007, 2:34 PM

To avoid changing tapes at an event, I recorded from a HDV camera direct to a laptop hard drive. That worked fine- it went uninterrupted for about three hours and the .mt2 file is about 40 GB. There is a lot of dead time at the beginning and end. There are two segments in the middle that I want to archive to tape, both less than an hour long.

I'd like to do this quickly (no re-rendering). You can transfer an existing .m2t file from within Vegas, but I think I have to send the whole file using manual control and then sit there waiting for the right time to press "record" on the HDV camera. Does any one know of a better way?

I have heard about a program called "VideoReDo". Would that allow exporting a sub-segment of a large m2t file without re-rendering?

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John_Cline wrote on 6/21/2007, 6:55 PM

Yes, either VideoReDo or Womble MPEG Video Wizard will split MPEG2 files without re-rendering.

There are minor issues with both programs however... VideoReDo will not write a file with the M2T extension, but it's easy enough to rename the .TS file to .M2T. Either way, Vegas will read it. Womble MPEG Video Wizard seems to write somewhat non-compliant .M2T files. It doesn't write the PID correctly, but again, Vegas appears to deal with it OK. On a few files, I have had to run a freeware program called "mpeg2repair" to get things straight. Nevertheless, both programs will work for what you need to do.

John