procoder and vegas

[gavmiester]

Does anyone have any guides for either procoder or vegas. Basic guides only....thought Lordsmurf had this, but his links arent complete.

What Im wanting to do is edit and convert home videos. Procoder allows me to convert to an mpeg2 compliant video file and a wav file. But I cant insert both of these into vegas 4.0....should I be creating this as an mpeg2 elementary file instead (this way I can do 2 x vbr).....or should I be editing and rendering in vegas first, then importing the file (assuming its still an avi) into procoder?

Ive basically had enough of mf2 as its basic, but very limited, and the results are only average.

I really dont want to play with tmpgenc and virtual dub, since I have procoder, I figured I should use it.

Lastly, would you use dvd architect to do the burn, or simply use nero.

Thanks for any feedback which saves me time on this one. PS, please dont point me to links on vegas 4....most of the tutorials Ive seen go far beyond what Im wanting to do...I really am after something which covers editing and inserting various audio files with fades etc....nothing to major.
Cheers for any halp on this one as the vegas learning curve seems reasonabley steep.

Gav

[disturbed1]

Vegas doesn't import elementary streams. Even if you did import an mpeg program, Vegas would still re-render it. Vegas hasn't updated to the newest Mainconcept encoding engine yet, that supports fast/smart rendering.

You should edit, then encode. Also, instead of rendering to another huge avi file out of Vegas, you can frame serve it to ProCoder, or just use Vegas' built in mpeg encoder. It has a template for outputing directly to DVD-A. (DVD-A doesn't take elementary streams either, it needs a video only program stream, and seperate audio).

[rhegedus]

What format are you're home videos in/on? If you still have the original tapes, I'd capture them to DV and o all the editing in Vegas before encoding.

As disturbed1 said, if you've only got an mpeg file then editing will be a slow process and Vegas will re-encode afterwards (but very well, I might add).

[gavmiester]

thanks for that folks.