What program to cut out unwanted sections of DV-AVI for archive

[piperpilot12w]

I have some Mini DV camcorder tapes that I have captured with Sony Vegas and it saves as AVI (DV-AVI?). I cut out sections in Vegas and made a DVD fine, but it appears my editing in Vegas only makes a file with the settings of my edits. What I would like is to permanently cut out unwanted sections and store as archive in the DV-AVI form without any encoding that might lessen the quality. Is this possible with Vegas or would I need to use something like VirtualDub?

[zoobie]

just create a video file and save it as dv-avi

[piperpilot12w]

Do you mean in Vegas to Render it as AVI(video for Windows)?
I don't see anything that shows DV-AVI.

[Cornucopia]

Vegas, Premiere, VD, ALL the good editors. They ALL have capability to work with std def DV (usually as DV in AVI container). Ususally, these also have the ability to Smart Render.

You should be looking in the Export/Render/Output/Save settings for the AVI file format and the DV video codec. It IS there. (Vdub might need to add Cedocida to have DV, but all the others come built-in)

Scott

[piperpilot12w]

These are the options I have in Vegas Movie Studio HD 10.
Do I have the right selection to render an edited version of the original DV-AVI?

[jagabo]

It looks like you've figured out how to do it in Vegas. You can also so it in VirtualDub as you speculated earlier. Just select Video -> Direct Stream Copy. Nothing will be re-rendered. And since DV is all intra-frame encoded, you will have frame accuracy on your cuts.

[piperpilot12w]

Thanks for the info