Creating clips with Vegas

[Abas-Avara]

Hi,

2 months ago I captured Digital8 tapes with Moviemaker from my Sony Camcorder.
I've still the exact DV AVI format and I'm SURE that the timecode is in it.
Windows Moviemaker can create clips (during the capture or after).

But in Vegas I dont know how to do this, according to http://www.videoforums.co.uk/sony-vegas-media-studio/15595-does-vegas-has-movie-maker-...ips-video.html topic it's not possible?
It would be lame from vegas that it can't support a simple thing that Moviemaker does support.

I could use Windows Moviemaker but there are 2 reasons I dont want, It can't render to DV AVI PAl and I like that Vegas doesn't compress DV AVI files (I dont now that about Moviemaker)

I use Vegas 9.0
I hope someone can help me out

[JohnnyMalaria]

If your source is PAL then WMM will definitely render to PAL. You have to go into the options menu. It is NTSC by default.

Regarding compressing, WMM is the same as Vegas - it will only decode/reencode frames when it has to. Simple cuts don't need it. BUT - WMM has an advantage over Vegas: WMM keeps the timecode etc, Vegas doesn't. It always generates new data even if the audio and video are unchanged. Stupid? Yes.

IIRC, Vegas can't split files (only on capture). For DV, there are a number of freebie tools that will do that. Though our software will, I actually recommend something like DV Date.

[Abas-Avara]

Thanks for your response.

I've changed the settings in Moviemaker to PAL.
But the render output of DV AVI there is 30MBs, I don't know why they make such simple things so compilicated.

DVdate I've used it for permament timecode stamp over the video, I didn't knew it had a feature for splitting AVI. I will check it out, if there is a problem I will post.

I know how it works with DVdate now, I will edit the splitted DV AVI's with Vegas.
Again Thanks!