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TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/5/2007, 8:43 AM
what's the length you're specifying? I used a length of "0" with no issues a few weeks ago.
marts wrote on 11/5/2007, 10:42 AM
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?
nhb wrote on 11/5/2007, 1:18 PM
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.

nhb
nhb wrote on 11/5/2007, 2:09 PM
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.

nhb
Chienworks wrote on 11/5/2007, 2:38 PM
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.