Removing 1/3 of the End of an AVI File?

[solarblast]

I captured 90 minutes of a file last night from a DVD, and much more. I fell asleep, and apparently the DVD started again. So I almost filled my entire HD before Vegas gave up. Is there someway of removing the excess in Vegas and end up with an AVI file. Right now I've turned it over to Audacity. It's been chugging along for 15 minutes, but I'm not sure what's going on. The Import window tells me there's 1193046:11:44 minutes of time left. This could take awhile.

Is there a way to set Capture to a specific time limit?

[BJ_M]

using the S key in vegas will split the event on the time line at your cursor position ... the most basic of edits ...

though the file may be screwed up and in such a case - it would be faster to delete the file and recapture it ..... though i dont understand why you are 'capturing' a dvd anyway with vegas as you could just import the dvd straight into vegas

[solarblast]

(BTW, Audacity finally died.) I have no trouble splitting the file, but then my only choice is to save it as a veg file. I'd prefer to keep it as an avi file only, so that I can use it with other projects. I'm aware that I can have veg files inside veg files, but at this stage of the game would like to avoid it.

How do I import it straight into Vegas?

It would be handy if I could just use Vegas to do simple edits on avi files, and then 'glue' it back together.

[BJ_M]

you can save it (render it) as any type of file you want and then delete the original ..

you can import a VOB or mpeg file (program stream) directly into vegas just like importing any other file type ...


vegas can do simple edits - as well as quite complex and then glue them back together .... if the file is a DV file , it will smart render only the parts necessary

[solarblast]

Thanks. I finally figured that out, and did exactly that just a few minutes ago. I now have a 20G avi file rather than a 42G avi file.