Open .avi, edit audio only, save

Ritchie wrote on 12/15/2002, 11:40 AM

Is it possible to open an AVI in Vegas Video, make a few changes to the audio and save the avi without rerendering but with the modified audio?

Thanks.

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ibliss wrote on 12/15/2002, 2:31 PM

Hi Ritchie,

This would probably have been better posted in the Video Topics forum - I expect those guys would have better answers for you in this instance!

I don't think Vegas can save the AVI without rendering the video again. I suspect there may be tools out there which will let you merge an audio file to an existing Video file - but I don't know if they can skip the Video render either.

You'd have to open the original AVI in Vegas, edit the audio, render the audio as a WAV file and finally use a 3rd party tool to combine the WAV and AVI video file. This assumes that the original audio can be stripped out by the same app.

Mike K

Chienworks wrote on 12/15/2002, 3:56 PM

If your source AVI files is either uncompressed or strict DV format, then the video won't be re-rendered if you save to the same format. The frames will be copied bit for bit to the new file. Re-rendering is only necessary if going between other compressed formats or if any changes are made to the video track.