Windows Media Re-encoding

makowian wrote on 6/9/2004, 8:48 AM

I now use a command line tool to chop heads and tails off of Windows Media files because it outputs the result WITHOUT recompressing it.

Earlier version of Vegas couldn't do this ... forcing re-encoding/re-compression to an already highly compressed file making it unusable.

Can Version 5 do this? Can I edit let's say a 250K WMV file then save the result out WITHOUT re-encoding it?

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farss wrote on 6/9/2004, 8:58 AM

I'd say NO!
It's a DV editor and WMV can be a nightmare to edit, I used to do a lot of it to go out on VHS, most of the files I had to restream so they had enough keyframes for Vegas to cope. I'd imagine anything trying to edit it natively would have to cut to the nearest keyframe or else rebuild the sequence.

makowian wrote on 6/9/2004, 9:00 AM

thanks man ... i figured the key-frame issue would be the killer.