Want to keep my original encoded mpg stream in Vegas

sounddrive wrote on 4/23/2003, 1:21 PM

Hi,

Want to keep my original encoded mpg stream in Vegas

This is what I did and want to do;

1. Captured the orginal DV film as a AVI file true vegas capture
2. encoded the AVI file to a PS MPEG stream true cinemacraft CCE-SP
3. edit the clips in vegas
4. want to keep the quality of the mpeg file and not rendered it again true vegas (exept afcourse the added effects and so.

please help

Comments

Jsnkc wrote on 4/23/2003, 1:32 PM

You should have kept the avi file to edit with, if you edit with a MPEG-2 file you will get a big loss in quality!

Former user wrote on 4/23/2003, 1:49 PM

In order to create a new MPEG file with your edits, it will have to re-rencode. The MPEG file format achieves its compression by analyzing a range of video frames. When you edit the file, those frames may change, so it has to be re-encoded as a new file.

Why didn't you edit from the AVI file and then encode? This is the preferred way with the least quality loss.

Dave T2