[kalabula]

Lets see if I can explain this.

I have been taping some 1 1/2 hour long classes and capturing these vids to my computer. I then open these vids as Sony Vegas projects and edit them down to around 15minutes (just the important stuff). So now technically these are no longer vidoe clips but projects. Now I want to take all the 15 minute projects and edit them even further to put bits and pieces of them into different projects.

I was going to render the 15 minute edited projects to .avi movies on my harddrive. This way I could just drag them into the timeline on my Sony software for the new projects I am going to create with them. The only problem with this is after I was done re-editing them I would have to render them again and I am under the impression that everytime something is rendered it loses a bit of quality and I want to reneder them as little as possible.

Is there a way to leave these 15 minute vids as projects (as opposed to rendered movies) and move parts of them to different projects?

Sorry for the confusing, long winded post but this is a big project and I want to know the best way to tackle it. Thanks in advance.

 

[ferrija1]

You could save the Sony Vegas project and then edit it to be even shorter and then save it as what ever you like (ex. avi format) , while still having the original Sony Vegas file.

 

[Moby]

Hi kalabula, I don't use that program as you know but most video editors I have seen work on the same principal. When you trim a video clip, a thumbnail or icon of that trimmed clip usually appears in a library or window ready to use or be dragged to the timeline. A project doesn't start until something is added to the timeline. So thumbnails or icons of your trimmed video clips should always be there to use on any future project without saving a project which technically hasn't started yet.
Then you do what you want with the clips, starting projects by dragging them to the timeline. You can save a project then start again with the original trimmed clips that should always be available in a media library in the program. Each project can be rendered differently as you like, using the same trimmed clips, but still only rendering once at the end of each project. The unrendered original trimmed clips always stay there in the library until you delete them
Make any sense?

 

[kalabula]

I think I understand what you are talking about but I cannot drag the edited clips into the timeline because they are not clips, just projects. In order to drag them into the timeline I have to render them to movies first, then edit them and render again. This is what im trying to avoid, rendering them twice.

I just burned a copy of a video clip that has been rendered. Then I rerendered the same clip and burned it as well. I was going to play them one after the other to see if there was any noticable difference in quality between the one that was rendered once the the one that was rendered twice. At least that was my plan, but for some reason both of the burned dvd's will not play in my dvd player. And I know that the player will play burned dvd's as I have played them before on it. One thing after another!

 

[kalabula]

I just burned a copy of a video clip that has been rendered. Then I rerendered the same clip and burned it as well. I was going to play them one after the other to see if there was any noticable difference in quality between the one that was rendered once the the one that was rendered twice. At least that was my plan, but for some reason both of the burned dvd's will not play in my dvd player. And I know that the player will play burned dvd's as I have played them before on it. One thing after another!

I was able to play these dvd's on a seperate player and, honestly, I can't tell a defference between the 2 discs. Maybe I will just render the vids twice. I think this will be the easiest way to do it.

The main reason I want to render these profects is so I can erase the source videos. They are an hour and a half long each and I capture 2 to 3 of them onto my hardrive every week. Needless to say they are taking up a considerable amount of memory.

 

[Moby]

That is a fair point and if you cant tell the difference between the discs then enough said.