Video Editing

Got a copy of Sony Vegas 9 goin. Takes my shitty MTS videos and looks to output something more useful. Editing is pretty damn simple so far.. Now lets see how the quality is...aaaghh pixel related interruption :]... hrmmm resaving in 1080p, first attempt in 720p was not so hot.. the best output option is pure avi too.. no encoding at all.. will also see if it can read h.264 and xvid in the editor..... pretty long conversion times :/ ... wtf how is AVI way larger file size than this raw MTS file... 13 gigs for 2 minutes, half of which was just black videlo.. lol.. anyway.. ill fuck wtih it more.. good start..