Any way to use .m2v files in Sony vegas 6?

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Any way to use .m2v files in Sony vegas 6?

Postby Rem0 » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:35 pm

Won't let me drop them in... They are source footage I want to use. Individually coverting 55+ Files that range from 15-500 megs each would take forever. Is there something I can do so vegas can use them?
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Postby Athena » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:47 pm

No. As far as I am aware, you must convert. What you have are encoded files shoved into containers not at all suitable for editing. You need to make lossless versions in avi with HuffYUV or Lagarith.

And you shouldn't be using mkv files anyway, since that suggests your using less than ideal source. |:
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Postby Athena » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:49 pm

Kionon wrote:No. As far as I am aware, you must convert. What you have are encoded files shoved into containers not at all suitable for editing. You need to make lossless versions in avi with HuffYUV or Lagarith.

And you shouldn't be using mkv files anyway, since that suggests your using less than ideal source. |:


Ignore me. I just noticed that's a 2 not a K...

I will do more research on .m2vs and get back to you.
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Postby Rem0 » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:53 pm

Thanks, I've googled some terms for sony vegas and M2VS, but no good. They are ripped right from the Final Fantasy X game using a program, Forgot the name, But it required the disk in the drive obviously. Would be great to use it as source footage. As of now my source footage is just plain high quality Xvid files. Quality is excellent, but physically slow editing because of it's compression, Slow preview generating etc, But I can live with it if worse comes to worse.
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Postby Athena » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:55 pm

M2V files are video only MPEG-2s.

Here's what I would try:

1) convert file names to .VOB from .m2v
2) use DGIndex to index them
3) use avs files to edit with (since you wish not to convert)
4) ???
5) PROFIT
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Postby Rem0 » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:03 pm

I like the last two steps, XD, Thanks for the info, I'll work on it. Should work.
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Postby Rem0 » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:07 pm

Yep, thanks. It works like a charm.
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Postby Athena » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:25 pm

Rem0 wrote:Yep, thanks. It works like a charm.


Ah good. Yeah I had some oddly named files once, turned out to be just MPEG-2s in disguise, so I was pretty sure it would work. Glad to be of help.
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Postby Jnzk » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:30 am

Kionon wrote:1) convert file names to .VOB from .m2v
2) use DGIndex to index them

DGIndex can open .m2v files directly...
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Postby 808-buma » Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:06 am

Janzki wrote:
Kionon wrote:1) convert file names to .VOB from .m2v
2) use DGIndex to index them

DGIndex can open .m2v files directly...


ditto on that
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Postby Athena » Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:11 am

Janzki wrote:
Kionon wrote:1) convert file names to .VOB from .m2v
2) use DGIndex to index them

DGIndex can open .m2v files directly...


Note, I've nevereven seen an .m2v extension. So I said what I would have tried, and even if unnecessary, it would have worked, right?
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Postby Jnzk » Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:55 am

It works all right, I just wanted to point out that it was an unnecessary step. :)
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Postby Athena » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:06 am

Janzki wrote:It works all right, I just wanted to point out that it was an unnecessary step. :)


Will it handle all MPEG-2 files regardless of te file extension?
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Postby Jnzk » Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:13 am

Kionon wrote:Will it handle all MPEG-2 files regardless of te file extension?

Seems so.
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Postby Willen » Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:59 am

M2V is a video-only ((packetized) elementary stream) MPEG-2 file (wiki entry for M2V), usually created from a MPEG-2 encoder program like TMPGEnc or Cinema Craft Encoder. It is then (typically) loaded into a DVD authoring program along with the accompanying audio file(s), subtitle file(s), and other video (for angles), in DVD creation/mastering.

If you demux a MPEG-2 file such as a VOB or MPG you will end up with a M2V video file and an audio file of some sort (AC3, MP2, WAV, DTS, etc.)

Most video players will play back the M2V files, but almost all do not register the M2V extension. In fact, all the MPEG-2 capable programs I currently have on my computer have not registered the M2V extension (Winamp does, but I'd rather not have it handle video files. Same thing with MPC, at least not by default (don't ask why, I have my reasons)). The files will play in Nero Showtime, Media Player Classic (with sound if the audio file has the same name), VLC Media Player, PowerDVD 4.0 (but not 5.0 for some reason), and Winamp. RealPlayer (installed on my older computer) will play it, but with the wrong aspect ratio. Magix Movie Maker Pro 10 and NeroVision Express 3 will load up the M2V video file for editing.
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