Multi DVD Edit in Vegas

[spaceace414]

I have a big project I am working on for a band. They have three seperate angles from a recent concert that has been put onto three seperate DVDs. I need to take these three DVDs and edit them together into one great concert DVD. I need to do this the best possible way with no video/audio loss. I am quite skilled in editing and have done many projects before...but they all been captured into the computer with a DV tape. This is a bit different.

I know I can hookup a DVD player and just capture it that way...but I believe that will create some loss in quality.

I have just upgraded to Vegas 8...and there must be a way to accomplish my project. I have read about demuxing...do I need to do this first then bring the audio/video over to Vegas? Or will Vegas accomplish everything I want to do?

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.

[Baldrick]

If you don't want any quality loss at all you must use a tool like mpeg video wizard that doesn't reconvert the video. It can import directly from the dvd.

[spaceace414]

If you don't want any quality loss at all you must use a tool like mpeg video wizard that doesn't reconvert the video. It can import directly from the dvd.

Great...looks like a nice program. It appears to be an editing program without all the bells and whistles of Vegas (which is fine). So do I have the option of using three video tracks and editing it all down? Also, do I have the option of choosing which audio track I want to keep and delete the others? I say this because one audio track is better than the others.

Thanks for your info and time on this.

[guns1inger]

Single time line only.

I would use Vegas for this. If the bitrate is high enough when you re-encode, quality loss should be minimal. If the bitrate of the source is already low, you may also not notice a slight change.

The best method is to get the original source, instead of DVDs (unless this is the original source).

The only other suggestion would be Premiere Pro with the (expensive) Mainconcept mpeg editing plugin.

[stantheman1976]

Definitely stick with Vegas since you're familiar with how the whole multi track thing works. Use DVD Decrypter with the file split option off to get the DVD's to your HD as single VOB files. Import into Vegas and go to town. Output at the highest bitrate you can for DVD. If it's over 1 hour I'd use a DL disc so you can keep a high bitrate. Of course there will be some quality loss compressing again but at the highest allowable bitrate 99% of people will not notice.

[spaceace414]

Okay...that is very helpful. Thanks guys.

[justenuff2bdangerous]

Definitely stick with Vegas since you're familiar with how the whole multi track thing works. Use DVD Decrypter with the file split option off to get the DVD's to your HD as single VOB files. Import into Vegas and go to town. .........

Vegas will use .VOB files, as is ?

What version ?

[stantheman1976]

I've done it with Vegas 7. Maybe 6 won't. I never tried it with that version. You can always use something like Womble MPEG2VCR to save as MPEG-2 without quality loss.