Which method produces best results

iagman wrote on 11/23/2010, 1:32 PM
I made a video in three parts (wmv) for uploading to YouTube. Each part is approx. 50 MB. Now, I want to form one video by joining the three parts together for an eventual burn to DVD.
Which method is best for getting the final single video;
Edit the three wmv files together in Vegas MS, then render those as the final wmv video, or,
Join each of the three .vf files together, then render as the final wmv video. I suspect this method will produce the best results but I'm not sure how to get the three .vf files together into one final .vf file so it can be rendered; Copy/Paste did not work.
Any suggestions appreciated.
iagman

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yves wouters wrote on 11/23/2010, 1:44 PM
if you look at the size of the three "youtube-files" and compare them to the original file you will notice that the last one is bigger(more audio- and videodata) so if you still have the three vegas movie studeo files it's better to use those and paste them one after another and save them in the highest configuration.
iagman wrote on 11/24/2010, 5:09 AM
The Copy/Paste of a .vf file does not transfer the volume settings for the different audio tracks. They all go flat-line after the paste so that method is pretty much useless. To get those tracks back to the original settings would be near impossible. Is there a way to Copy/Paste volume info?
iagman
musicvid10 wrote on 11/24/2010, 9:15 AM
Vegas Movie Studio does not support project nesting. Vegas Pro does.

You can open three instances of Vegas and copy/paste between the timelines.

If you have three video files already rendered, there are third-party joiners available, or you can concatenate from the DOS-prompt. Do an internet search.
gogiants wrote on 11/26/2010, 10:25 PM
For what it's worth, I'd think that joining the 3 .wmv files onto a timeline within Vegas, then rendering the whole timeline, should work just fine. I guess technically speaking the quality might be "lower" because of some issues with keyframes, etc. within the files, but it just isn't likely to cause a visible difference...
ONPHA wrote on 12/3/2010, 10:39 AM
Another option, if you're concerned about retaining quality, is render each section to avi, then combine the new renders in a new vegas file, and render again.