Unless I'm missing something, Vegas can't simply split a video avi or other clip in to pieces, without having to re-render each clip, which is ridiculous.

Go grab the AVI splitter and joiner utilities from http://www.boilsoft.com , they work great to quickly split (and join together) clips without the need to render them.

Can't vegas do that simple utility, eg instantly splitting/joining video clips?
So I can specific a split point in my 620 meg avi file, have it instantly split the file where I specify (without having to render each piece of the clip)??

That's a feature request lol by the way if vegas can't do it. Maybe I'm missing something. Go try the www.boilsoft.com utilities, tell me if vegas can do those simple tasks, or not... thanks!

Ken

no, not split, i want it to break apart, like you rip a paper, get it?

> Unless I'm missing something, Vegas can't simply split a video avi or other clip in to pieces, without having to re-render each clip, which is ridiculous.

You ARE missing something. Vegas will NOT render AVI files that are only splits. Take any AVI, cut out some parts you don’t like (just use hard cuts, no transitions) and render as the same AVI format, and Vegas will simply copy the source AVI media to the target AVI media. No rendering at all.

> no, not split, i want it to break apart, like you rip a paper, get it?

No, we obviously don’t get it. Do you mean you want a video effect that makes the screen look like it’s ripping in half when you play the video? I have several effects like this in Hollywood FX but Vegas doesn’t have anything like it. You could use the Wax plugin to shatter a page into pieces but not really a rip. Perhaps Boris FX has something like this. (I don’t know I don’t have Boris)

~jr

Hi Ken. Vegas is a full video editor program, and can do much more than just splitting clips. However, it can also do this task if that's what you want.

After you create a split point, yes you do have to "render as" to get a new file, but if you are using DV format AVIs that were captured in Vegas, the output files can just be saved as direct copies, i.e. without rendering. Even the AVI splitter utilities you mention have to create new files and save the video data, right? In this case, that's all Vegas should be doing too.

If you find that Vegas really is rendering in order to create the output files, it means that there is a format difference between the original clip and the "render as" output format. If you can stick to working with files that are captured using the Vegas codec, you should be able to avoid re-rendering, however if you have to split files that are using other codecs maybe Vegas is not the correct tool after all and you will need to use the AVI Splitter tools.

Richard Hunter

The free Wax plugin by Satish can shatter the video, which is quite a nice effect, but not the same as ripping paper. I recommend you give it a try anyway, it might be useful sometime.

Richard Hunter

http://www.debugmode.com/wax/

You could always use the Bezier masks to create the look of tearing paper. See Johnny Roy's 3D/Bezier veg on the VASST site to see what I mean. It has torn paper looks when the bullets blast the sign.

i dont want to rip it lke a paper, i was just giving example. Basicaly what i am trying to do is break a clip in three tall pieces, then have middle piece come from top, one from left and one from right, combining them together.