Hi all,
Quite often, I will capture an entire tape, cut out takes on a timeline, add region markers, render the regions to files, and edit from those. However, the timecode from the original capture is lost in this process and thus I lose any reference to the original tape should I wish to re-capture footage for a future edit. (I try to avoid capturing multiple clips from tape to avoid wear on my camcorder's mechanism.)
I know that saving a project with trimmed clips retains the timecode, but Vegas will combine clips into a single DV file where their timecodes overlap.
I suppose I could just edit from the single big file, having broken it into clips in the media bin but I usually only want to edit with about 50% of the original footage. That's a lot of wasted disk space during my edit.
Does anyone have any other approaches to this process?
Quite often, I will capture an entire tape, cut out takes on a timeline, add region markers, render the regions to files, and edit from those. However, the timecode from the original capture is lost in this process and thus I lose any reference to the original tape should I wish to re-capture footage for a future edit. (I try to avoid capturing multiple clips from tape to avoid wear on my camcorder's mechanism.)
I know that saving a project with trimmed clips retains the timecode, but Vegas will combine clips into a single DV file where their timecodes overlap.
I suppose I could just edit from the single big file, having broken it into clips in the media bin but I usually only want to edit with about 50% of the original footage. That's a lot of wasted disk space during my edit.
Does anyone have any other approaches to this process?