trimming in DVDA?

Gabonviper wrote on 9/13/2012, 11:54 PM
Hi,

I have a problem: I had just finished editing a 4-hour-plus blu-ray concert film project, and then deleted the folder with the source files by accident. I had made a back-up but it lacked a few key source files.

Prior to this blunder I had tried to fit the movie onto two 25GB blu-ray discs, but with the menus and all the renders were something like 1,5 GB too large for each disc, so I wanted to create a new version, with most of the film (the full concert) on a 50 GB disc, and the rest (the extras) on a 25 gb one.

I do have the finíshed renders still (two .m2v files) and was wondering if I could trim the second one in DVDA so that the whole concert would fit on a 50GB blu-ray disc. I have all the files for the extras (not so for the concert), so I could render a new file for the extras in DVDA.

Alternatively, I haven't found a way to import m2v files into Vegas Pro 11. If this was possible, I could replace the missing files with the imported m2v sequences and rerender it as needed. Anyone know how I could do this or find a way to arrive at the same goal by using the finished renders as source material?

Help appreciated,
Marko

Comments

PeterDuke wrote on 9/14/2012, 1:36 AM
You could put your .m2v file in a container that vegas recognises using tsmuxer or similar. Use the .ts output and change the ending to .mpg so that Vegas's explorer will display it (or drag from a Windows Explorer to the timeline).

Vegas will re-render, causing some generational loss. To avoid that you could use a tool that trims and smart renders, such as Videoredo.