I have a large number of videos (about 100), each about 5 minutes long. I've been decrypting them from dvds and using virtual dub to make avi files. I then take them into Sony Vegas and save each 5 minute section to a separate file.
My question is, because of space on my external hard drives, I've started converting to MP2 instead of .avi (NTSC DV). This means a lot less MBs.
I will later need to reload these into Vegas and make a DVD compliant file.
Will I lose more quality when I re-save these combined MP2 files to a new MP2 file?
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MP2 generally means an audio file -- MPEG 1 Layer 2 audio. I assume you mean MPG files with MPEG 2 video. Your DVD sources are already MPG. Why bother reencoding them? Just remux from VOB to MPG if necessary. You'll have exactly the same quality as your DVDs.
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Sorry, yes I did mean MPEG2 video.
Remux from VOB to MPG? I'm not good with scripts, and just use the basic parts of Virtual dub (I've also used MPEG-Streamclip, but it keeps crashing on me)
Can you recommend an easy program to convert from VOB to MPEG2 Video? -
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