MPEG2 Editing in Vegas 5.0

zstevek wrote on 8/1/2004, 1:11 PM

I have an ADS-Tech DVD Xpress hardware MPEG-2 Encoder. When I convert VHS tapes to MPEG-2 using my ADS capture box the file cannot be read by Vegas or DVDA? Vegas just spins it’s wheels for about 5 minutes and nothing happens. Is there some reason Vegas5 & DVDA2 can't recognize a particular MPEG-2 file? I used VBR when the movie was being encoded and it plays back fine with my media players. I just can't edit it with Sony's software.

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 8/1/2004, 1:34 PM

Vegas is very slow with MPEG-2 files, and cannot edit them without re-rendering the result (i.e., it does not do cuts-only edits).

DVDA is, at its very core, DESIGNED to handle MPEG-2 files. You should concentrate on getting that to work first.

DVDA is EXTREMELY slow at loading large MPEG-2 files. DVDA 1.x sometimes took minutes. DVDA 2.x is faster, but can still take twenty seconds or more on a fast PC. Just be patient. Once on the timeline, DVDA needs to create and audio peak file (similar to Vegas) and it can be sluggish while this is going on. Once it is finished with this operation, it is reasonably responsive.