MPEG previewing, Vegas and Womble.

Laurence wrote on 1/5/2006, 9:07 PM

At Womble.com there is a relatively simple mpeg editor that can preview and edit M2T clips natively. The native M2T editing is of questionable value because the GOP sequence is off, but the mpeg previewing rocks! I would love to see Sony hire this guy or license or figure out whatever this guy is doing to get such a good M2T preview because it would be wonderful to be able to access this in Vegas. Efficient MPEG previewing like this would be the single most important improvement in Vegas that Sony could make IMHO. If one guy working alone can figure this out, a large company like Sony certainly should be able to as well!

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johnmeyer wrote on 1/5/2006, 10:01 PM

Sony is hamstrung, I think, by its relationship with MainConcept. There are SO many things they could do if they had control over the MPEG-2 decoding and encoding software. m2t preview, MPEG-2 timeline editing, perfectly smooth slo-mo (using motion estimation from the MPEG code), bad frame replacement, simple DVD re-authoring (i.e., taking content from existing DVDs and including it into a new compilation, but without re-encoding), and much, much more. The competition, or course, is doing this, and not just the small outfit from "down under" (Womble).

Laurence wrote on 1/6/2006, 7:21 PM

That would make sense: that the reason Vegas can't preview M2T or SD Mpeg video properly has more to do with licensing arrangements than it does with technological capability. Whatever it is, it sucks. Vegas could easily work with M2T files directly without intermediary codecs or proxies with a moderately powered PC if it just licensed the right technology. Yes there would still be advantages to the intermediary or proxy approaches for things like color correction and title animations, but the simple types of event coverage I do would be much easier.