Ripped vhs tapes, can i rerender w/o transcode??

khayman281 wrote on 3/14/2015, 1:01 PM
Movie Studio 12 platinum: Hi - i used diamond USB vhs video ripper. It outputs a mpeg2 video (DVD setting). I want to be able to cut some of the blank space at the beginning and end of the tape and re-render. That's all. However, there is no settting it seems to match exactly the source video! It just seems crazy to me that it has to re-render with different settings, when it could just pass through the video. And it seems like there is a little bit of quality loss too! I don't want to spend a lot of time re-rendering if there is a loss of quality, and i feel like i am an idiot for not finding the right button to press, since there is no way that Vegas programmers could be dumb enough not to provide this feature. Please help!
No need to ask me a bunch of questions on my settings, etc. This is a theoretical question about matching a render perfectly to the source so there is no transcoding/recompression/file size changes. Thanks,
RYan

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richard-amirault wrote on 3/14/2015, 6:09 PM
I want to be able to cut some of the blank space at the beginning and end of the tape and re-render.

I think you want to .... cut some of the blank space at the beginning and end of the *file* and re-render.

Yes, you should .... unless the file you get from your video ripper is *not* exactly what Vegas outputs as a mp2 (and that is very likely)
MSmart wrote on 3/14/2015, 7:33 PM
Yes, it's unfortunate that Movie Studio doesn't have a smart render feature.

There is another app (which I have), VideoReDo, that does. Only the frames that have changed (your cut points) are reencoded, all else is direct copied. It's not free but does have a 15-day trial.