OT: stitching mpg2s together?

B.Verlik wrote on 10/15/2004, 6:47 PM
I want to learn to do frameserving to TMPGEnc, which I can figure out from debugmode. My problem is that I would like to make a number of shorter mpg2s and then stitch them together so that I can have one movie in the end. Is this possible and will I still be able to make a separate .ac3 soundtrack that will stay in sync? (My idea is that I'd like to have a couple of background projects that may take a while and not take up so much hard drive space so that I can still do regular work too.)

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TheHappyFriar wrote on 10/15/2004, 7:22 PM
You can stitch together mpeg files in TMPGenc (it's under "tools" in the file menu). But, it won't process ac3 audio. However.. i've stitched mpeg's together & then rendered out the audio seperatly in Vegas and it seemed to sync up on the DVD when I played it.

I've give it a shot. You might as well render out the audio with the small mpeg files too. Then when burning the DVD you can specify to use the AC3 file instead.
B.Verlik wrote on 10/15/2004, 10:01 PM
Let me see it I got this right. You rendered out the ac3 from the mpgs in Vegas, not DVD-A, right? I would like to have control of the ac3 from Vegas. Or did you make the ac3s from the original .avi's separately? Just trying to get it right the 1st time, since everything takes so long. I will wait for an answer before I attempt. Just thought of this, but how could you stitch ac3 files together afterwards. Must be making them from the mpgs. So then, which method of streaming do you use in TMPGEnc? ES audio + video or System audio + video? ( I haven't use TMPGEnc in ages and have forgotten everything.)
farss wrote on 10/15/2004, 10:13 PM
Simplest thing would be to render out the audio track as WAVs and then stitch them together in Vegas later and render the resulting file to ac3 in Vegas. Ditching the AVIs will save a lot of space and wav files are not that big.
Of course HDs are prett cheap too.

Bob.
johnmeyer wrote on 10/15/2004, 10:24 PM
Womble's products do what you want.
B.Verlik wrote on 10/15/2004, 10:27 PM
Thanks, Bob. I should have thought of that, but was zooming through everything. I know Hard drives are fairly cheap, but my bank account is always running on fumes and I'm still fairly ignorant to the computer world and don't know how to format new drives and don't have a regular computer dude to fix my stuff or ask questions about stuff. But I am getting around to frameserving and you kind of opened the door for me, a couple of months ago, as far as explaining some of it to me, to which I'm grateful. (I actually received a 40 GB harddrive about 10 months ago. It was already formatted and I did install it. But 40 GB is nothing in the video world. When everything is empty, I have about 70 to 75 GB to work with. Still not that much. Thanks, I may not have thought of that for a while, even though it's kind of obvious.

Steve