Picture quality in sony vegas help!

[kickass331]

do not use vdub or make stupid clips, buy a bunch of flash and hard drives to go with your main solid state disk

Editing with lossless files directly is faster regardless. And clipping beforehand is a good way to focus on pure editing inside the NLE without thinking of the scene selection too. Of course, everybody has their preferred way to edit, but in no way is lossless clipping stupid.

clipping wrong by one second means one more clip to rerender, retime in project, and before you can do that, refind in the file, if you already deleted your source, you have to rerip your source, and if you lose your clips, you have to re do your whole amv instead of just loading a different rip of the same source, if you ever find old project files they are useless unless you use the same source, and clips are just fudgems.

[mirkosp]

It is obvious that you leave the entire scene you need in the clip and not just cut the exact scene that you'll place in the timeline... you just need a rough cut. Also when you're done with a video, you're done with it. If you want to remaster an old project or finish an old one, chances are you'll want to overhaul the quality and improve the editing too... so perhaps you'd be picking different scenes altogether.
That said, I personally convert whole episodes/DVDs to lossless. I prefer to clip inside of premiere, but editing with the lossless is a must to speed up. Seeking a lossless is faster than seeking an avs that loads and deinterlaces a d2v.

[kickass331]

It is obvious that you leave the entire scene you need in the clip and not just cut the exact scene that you'll place in the timeline... you just need a rough cut. Also when you're done with a video, you're done with it. If you want to remaster an old project or finish an old one, chances are you'll want to overhaul the quality and improve the editing too... so perhaps you'd be picking different scenes altogether.
That said, I personally convert whole episodes/DVDs to lossless. I prefer to clip inside of premiere, but editing with the lossless is a must to speed up. Seeking a lossless is faster than seeking an avs that loads and deinterlaces a d2v.

well no duh avs is slow, postprocessing in real time blows. However, clipping is a useless step. it is only necessary if your rig is super slow since vegas has a great tool that allows you to accurately manipulate your source segment's timeframe