No direct stream copy in vegas pro 11?

[supercain]

Hi,

i was looking for this option in sony vegas pro 11 but i just cant find it. I added a track to a video and i want to export it as is, so i dont need to encode the video but just make a direct stream copy. Does anybody know how to do it?

Thanks.

[edDV]

Hi,

i was looking for this option in sony vegas pro 11 but i just cant find it. I added a track to a video and i want to export it as is, so i dont need to encode the video but just make a direct stream copy. Does anybody know how to do it?

Thanks.

What format is your video?

What do you mean by "add a track" ? Audio?

What is your desired export format?

Vegas can be set to "smart render" DV, HDV and many MPeg2 based formats.

[supercain]

Thanks for replying. I want to export to avi and yes, i added an audio track. Sorry i forgot to write that. So in Vegas smart render equals to direct stream copy? where can i set that?

Thank you.

[edDV]

Thanks for replying. I want to export to avi and yes, i added an audio track. Sorry i forgot to write that. So in Vegas smart render equals to direct stream copy? where can i set that?

Thank you.

No. What video and audio codec in your avi container?

Divx/xvid must be re-encoded.

[supercain]

I am actually not sure. How can i find out that? but it may divx so that means i have to reencode? i thought Vegas had a direct stream copy option, otherwise its useless to me. The bad thing is that i spent hours getting the sync of the second audio track right, and now i cant export it because i dont want the video to suffer any data loss. What can i do?

Thanks.

[edDV]

Use mediainfo (view text) to find get codec info.

You can export audio only then use a muxer (e,g, tsmuxer) to add an audio track to the mux.

[supercain]

Thanks again. According to mediainfo, these are the codecs.

Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 829 MiB
Duration : 1h 36mn
Overall bit rate : 1 201 Kbps

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : 2
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate : 998 Kbps
Width : 852 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.081
Stream size : 689 MiB (83%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 36mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 133 MiB (16%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)


so, as i thought it has to be re-encoded, right? i dont want to do that so im going to export the audio only and then use the program you suggested. I used to use avidemux for adding additional tracks, but the problem with that is that it wont allow you to edit the name of the track. I want the video to display the name of the track on the audio track selection menu (in dvix player e.g) as English, Spanish, whatever, instead of mpeg3 layer or something like that. Do you know if tsmuxer can do that?

Thank you.

[edDV]

Right. Vegas will re-encode xvid.

I haven't used TSMuxer that way. Maybe others can comment.

[supercain]

I got tsmuxer but i dont really understand what is supposed to do. Seems like it cant open avi files so how can i add an audio track to the video with it? thanks.

[budwzr]

Try reversing the whiffalater coil

[supercain]

Sorry, whats that? which program? sorry, im not familiar with the term.

[poisondeathray]

If all you did was fix the audio, export audio only

Mux the exported audio track (replacing the old audio track) with the original video using avi-mux gui or vdub

I 'm pretty sure avi-mux gui lets you name the tracks and set language ID

[Cornucopia]

Maybe you need to adjust the pfitzer valve.1 Or open the gonkulator2...

Scott



1. from "Fletch"

2. from "Hogan's Heroes"

[supercain]

Hi,

i tried avimux gui but even if you change the language ID it wont have effect on the player. Divx player still shows MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) Stereo blah blah, while VLC shows only track 1 and track 2, but no name or language whatsoever. Virtualdubmod cant do it either. Any other program that can edit this info?

Thank you.