converting with Vegas

[someonesomewhere121]

ok ive spent literally hours tring to figure this house and i cant so im sorry if its repeating but i need to ask

With Vegas are u supposed to be able to convert from avi-mpeg/dvd on it? or do u need another program, im only making a very simple video, not editing really or anything.

thanks
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[guns1inger]

Depending on the source you can do this, but it is overkill.

What exactly are you trying to do ? Give us details of source, target, finished output and we can probably give you a cheaper, easier way to do it.

[someonesomewhere121]

thanks for replying, I used vegas 6 to capture the video from my minidv camcorder, and now its saved as about 25 seperate avi files, I joint them all together and saved it as one fle. Now i want to convert it so i can burn it onto a dvd, i have dvd architect as well, Im finding Sony Vegas to be not very user friendly though, I just need something simple .

thanks
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[jtoolman2000]

Vegas uses the Main Concept Mpg Encoder. One you join all your clips and have edited them to your needs, you select the job by double clicking inside the timeline on the video itself and go to File/Render As, and when the save window opens up, chose Main Concept MPG-2 from the list of SAVE formats. Click SAVE and it will render your video and save it as an MPG 2 which you can then use in Architect to create your final authored DVD. Vegas is actually a lot easier than a lot of other programs. Try to learn it well as it has a very low resource requirement and almost NEVER locks up or crash.

If you cannot get the Main concept codec to work that means you have not registered it. The MPG2 encoder needs to be registered separately or you will not be able to render to MPG2

[someonesomewhere121]

thank you, ur right, it is easy once u learn it i think i get it now haha thanks