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Videohelp. The world of conversion is very confusing and there are many, many video and audio formats and many tools for converting them. Information is all over the web, but Videohelp really is the best for figuring out what to convert to what, so for instance, our Sony hard disk camcorder produces MPG files, so how do we get the various shows and songs we record into an MP3 format for our iPods, just as for MPG to MP3 and you’ll know

In this case, though there isn’t a specific guide for doing an MPG soundtrack to MP3, so in my case, I’ll describe how I do it. It works with either Sony Vegas Movie Studio (or the older Nova Video Explosion or SonicFoundry Vegas):

1. Suck the files into Vega Movie Studio from the Sony DCR-SR100. This is pretty easy since its a hard disk camcorder. It actually records directly into MPG format with a Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. Vegas actually only handles two track, but then that’s all I need for my iPod. I need more research to figure out which tool can actually edit Dolby 5.1 soundtracks

1. Find the files you want, drag it to the video track area, then choose Tools/Render in New Track and in the dialog box choose Save Type As MP3 Audio or if you want to use LAME or some other high end encoder, choose Wave (Microsoft) and in the Template section choose, “44,100 Hz, 16 Bit, Stereo, PCM”