Can I do a simple fade in/out on clips pulled from BD without re-encoding?

[Dan Miller]

Hi everyone, first post. (posted to BD Ripping thread as well...)

I have a number of "demo clips" created by backing up with AnyDVD-HD and grabbing a stream with either BD Rebuilder or TS Remux. I am looking to do a simple fade from black at the beginning and fade to black at the end. Every editor I have tried wants to re-encode.

Can this be done any other way? My best solution so far is to cut out the beginning and end 5 seconds, take those two cuts and make each of them a fade in/out, re-encode just those two and reattach them to the original clip, but that is a major pain, and some of these clips will be under "videophile" scrutiny on very large screen displays.

Any other thoughts? I need to keep the multi-channel audio tracks intact as well, along with 24 fps.

Thanks in advance,

Dan

[jagabo]

I think the VideoRedo beta has a smart h.264 editing mode that will only reencode changed GOPs.

[Baldrick]

Doesn't vegas also has some smart h264 editing? Probably not any multichannel (dts-hd etc) support though.

[Dan Miller]

Vegas doesn't, unless something changed since last Nov when I tried it last. I don't think that VideoReDo has a fade function. Gonna try it as soon as I can though...

Thanks again. Sorry for the cross posting. I wasn't sure if it fell into the editing category or the BD ripping one.

[edDV]

Vegas doesn't, unless something changed since last Nov when I tried it last. I don't think that VideoReDo has a fade function. Gonna try it as soon as I can though...

Thanks again. Sorry for the cross posting. I wasn't sure if it fell into the editing category or the BD ripping one.

Vegas Pro 8/9 supports smart render for camcorder formats (various DV, HDV, IMX, XDCAM) but not AVCHD (yet) or "Blu-Ray".

Most camcorder formats are CBR. VBR GOPs present special problems especially for audio sync.