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I just started working on an edit of The Trouble with Tribbles, but in order to get more familiar with the Vegas software, I decided to jump over to another project I've been thinking of for a long time that I thought would be simpler.
I've always hated the second season finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Shades of Grey". They ran out of budget at the end of the season and decided to film a clip show to complete their required 22nd episode. My goal here was to reduce the hour-long clip show into a half-hour "bottle episode" instead, as an alternative approach they could have taken to produce the episode on the cheap.
The cut list is very simple, I just removed all of the scenes lifted from previous episodes, trimmed down a few "dead air" segments that were clearly just padding the run time, removed a couple of commercial breaks, and inserted one new commercial break to split the episode into three segments, roughly 5 minutes, 12 minutes, and 7 minutes long to better match a normal half hour commercial break timing.
This turned out to be even easier than I had initially expected, and I was able to crank this out in an afternoon. The TNG Blu-ray set, since it is all remastered from the original film, does not have the weird variable frame rates that I had to deal with importing DS9 footage into the TOS framework in my other edit. I was also already familiar with all of the ripping/demuxing/remuxing software which made getting started this time around much smoother.
One thing I still don't really know how to do is export from Vegas in a good format. In order to get HD video and 5.1 audio the only thing I could figure out was to render a 1440x1080 AVC video and then separately render an AC3 audio track and then re-mux them in MKVToolNix. Even then, for some reason my 1440x1080 video was stretched to 16:9. In any case, since this is my first attempt at anything I ran it through Handbrake to make a small 4:3 720p workprint if anybody would like to PM me to preview it. And if anybody has suggestions on how to export a 4:3 1080p video with surround sound directly from Vegas that would be very helpful too!
I've always hated the second season finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Shades of Grey". They ran out of budget at the end of the season and decided to film a clip show to complete their required 22nd episode. My goal here was to reduce the hour-long clip show into a half-hour "bottle episode" instead, as an alternative approach they could have taken to produce the episode on the cheap.
The cut list is very simple, I just removed all of the scenes lifted from previous episodes, trimmed down a few "dead air" segments that were clearly just padding the run time, removed a couple of commercial breaks, and inserted one new commercial break to split the episode into three segments, roughly 5 minutes, 12 minutes, and 7 minutes long to better match a normal half hour commercial break timing.
This turned out to be even easier than I had initially expected, and I was able to crank this out in an afternoon. The TNG Blu-ray set, since it is all remastered from the original film, does not have the weird variable frame rates that I had to deal with importing DS9 footage into the TOS framework in my other edit. I was also already familiar with all of the ripping/demuxing/remuxing software which made getting started this time around much smoother.
One thing I still don't really know how to do is export from Vegas in a good format. In order to get HD video and 5.1 audio the only thing I could figure out was to render a 1440x1080 AVC video and then separately render an AC3 audio track and then re-mux them in MKVToolNix. Even then, for some reason my 1440x1080 video was stretched to 16:9. In any case, since this is my first attempt at anything I ran it through Handbrake to make a small 4:3 720p workprint if anybody would like to PM me to preview it. And if anybody has suggestions on how to export a 4:3 1080p video with surround sound directly from Vegas that would be very helpful too!
