First off, my target is simply SD dvds for now, as my particularly videos are simply home videos (band, campouts, etc). I record in HD on my HV30, because I've read that you still get better quality if your source is HD, even if your target is SD.

When I capture, I'm capturing as HD, and then I'll render as SD. Would I get equal quality if I simply imported the tape as SD/DV onto my hard drive and edited that?

Second question has to do with scene detection and splitting.

I just imported video from my HV30, and the video was broken into 4 segments. I was surprised, because I turned off HD scene detection, but ok. In fact, it turned out doing a good job on three of those segments.

The first segment, however, was badly placed, so I'm trying to cut about 15 seconds off the first m2t file and will use that with the second file.

I've loaded File1.m2t, split it where I want, and I'd like to losslessly save the two splits out.

A while back, Eugenia had posted a tip that you can save the project and select "Save Media Files" and it would save the trimmed sections. However, no matter what I do, it's saving the whole file.

Is there a way to split .m2t? I haven't tried HDVSplit, simply using the Vegas importer. However, when I used to import DV, I used WinDV with no problems.

thanks!