When I try to copy and trim the media during a "save as," Vegas is still copying the entire files. This used to work in Vegas 7, but it is not working for me in Version 8a. Has something changed or is this broken?
I used this feature a week ago and had no problem as well (using the default 5 seconds head and tail). What kind of source files are you trying to trim - is it DV or HDV or something else?
Interesting... I swear, this isn't working for me.
As a test I just pulled a 250 meg MPEG in to a new project. It came in at around 5 minutes in length. I dragged it back to 10 seconds in length and then did a "Save As."
I checked the box, "copy media with project." At the next dialog I selected "create trimmed copies of media source", and left the default of 2 seconds for extra head and tail.
When I save, the entire 250 meg file is still being saved. It is not trimming anything.
This procedure always worked fine for me in Vegas 7. I never tried it in the initial version 8 release. I am currently using version 8a.
By the way, I just tried the same procedure with an .avi file with the same results.
On further testing, if I render the MPEG to a new track as an AVI, and then delete the original track and do all of the editing and chopping on the new track, save as and trim media works fine.
I still have problems with this procedure.
1. The AVI file is 5 times larger than the MPEG.
2. This takes time.
3. This used to work in version 7.
There seems to be a few anomalies with MPEG handling in Pro 8. I wonder if this is by design or is this something that can be addressed.
Caveat ... i don't use this feature and i've never used it, so i could be talking gibberish ...
I don't recall the save trimmed media feature ever trimmed MPEG files. I believe that it always has trimmed only uncompressed and DV AVI files and possible MOV. Other compressed types were always copied entirely in order to avoid rerendering.
Now that Vegas 8 has MPEG smartrendering i would think that MPEG would be added as a type that can be trimmed losslessly, but certianly this wouldn't have been the case in version 7 and earlier.