A want a file without rendering at 100%

mariauserinfo wrote on 6/5/2005, 5:10 PM
In Vegas 5 I just to render my work and, without rendering completely, I just to have a file, ie, when I just to stop the render at 40%, I just to have a 40%file in MPEG. Now in Vegas 6, when I stop rendering the file dissapear. How can I get a partial file in Vegas 6 as I did in Vegas 5. Thank you very much. Maria

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Chienworks wrote on 6/5/2005, 5:25 PM
Hmmm. I never had this work for me in any version of Vegas. If the file remained at all it was unusable. Another thing to consider is that some MPEG templates specify two-pass rendering, so the file isn't even started until 50%.

If you want only part of the file, select it as a loop region (highlighted in blue) and check the box that says "render loop region only". This way you can select any portion of the file and end up with a finished render of just that part.
jimingo wrote on 6/5/2005, 9:39 PM
I'm pretty sure it works only when rendering .avi files now, I think I remember it working with just about any type of files in version 4.
shroadster wrote on 6/5/2005, 10:35 PM
When I was using the V6 trial I noticed this exact same thing.

Now that I'm back to Vegas 5 I can cancel anytime during the render, and the amount rendered will be a file. I've tried it with MPEG-2, WMV, and AVI...and all of those worked.
rmack350 wrote on 6/5/2005, 10:40 PM
I'd say that's a feature-like bug. When you cancel a render Vegas shouldn't be leaving parts of files behind.

Rob Mack
Liam_Vegas wrote on 6/6/2005, 12:06 AM
I find the saving of partially completed AVI renders to be entirely helpful... and cannot see how keeping partially completed MPEG renders to be at all useful.

In the case of those AVI renders.... I may notice in the middle of a long render that something went wrong (maybe I notice a typo as it is rendering... or a client calls to tell me some last minute change).

In the case of an AVI render... I can hit the cancel button... this aborts the render but the AVI file created up to that point can be loaded back into the project. I can then make the correction I need... and re-render only the portion that needs to be changed along with the remainder of the project.

This has saved me lots of time on numerous occasions.

The above workflow is irrelevant for MPEG or other high compression rendering schemes.
farss wrote on 6/6/2005, 1:11 AM
Which does highlight the advantages of rendering out sections and then stitching them together if you have a long complex project.
Also there was a bit of a bug in V5 that I don't know if it's fixed in 6 but if you have say 10 tracks of video but there's only events in say the first minute for opening credits. the whole T/l gets slowed down rendering as Vegas composites the nothings in all those tracks, so rendering out just the first minute and rendering the rest minus all the empty tracks is way faster.
Bob.