Do a search on MPEGEdit on google and you should find some
programs. I do believe the new Canopus Edius and perhaps
Sony Vegas can do it as well?

What is a good capture card for Vegas 4.0
 

All I want to do is be able to capture the video, edit and save the VOB files onto a DVD.


I'm a newbie

If all you want is to capture video from a DV camcorder, then a good IEEE1394 (Firewire) card will do. If you have analog video, the best bet is to convert it to DV either with a camcorder with analog to DV passthrough or with a Canopus ADVC card.

For capturing, any OHCI compliant firewire card will do. To convert to VOB files and place them on a DVD, you will need a DVD authoring program such as DVD Architect.

Once you've rendered to a complete DV-AVI file, you can use any program you want to send it back over the firewire and the results should be identical.

Select all of the clips. Right-click them and drag them to the timeline. Select "Add as Takes" from the dropdown menu.

There are no several clips, it's only a clip with several regions, as created with the looping/recording technique.

Vegas cannot directly import a Premiere project. If you could create a text EDL then maybe. However, you would pretty well be limited to cuts only.

What are PQS and PLB files?

Render each section to a separate file?

Open the clip in the trimmer and select the first section. Add that section (just click and drag) to the timeline. Now select the second section. Right-click and drag to the first clip and choose "Add as Takes". Repeat this process until all sections have been added.

Thanks Edward, good idea, I had not thought that approach, although I would have said that vegas would do that automatically since I have about 40 audio clips with 5 to 10 takes each...that means that I have to add more than 200 audio takes manually, when the recording was done automatically.

The only other option I can really think of would be to write a script to automatically do it.

With the multicam script (on the sundance site), you can layer the takes under each other and it'll automatically put them all into one clip. It's about half the effort.

is it stored as one clip with different takes in the media pool?

mpeg 1 default is 720x480 (quality 15, bit rate 1,700,000)
mpeg 1 VCD is 352x240 ( quality 31, bit rate 1,150,000)

VCD cannot be full resolution indeed.