AC3 network rendering bug in Vegas 6

dreamlx wrote on 5/19/2005, 9:06 PM
If I understand well, using network rendering to Mpeg2 and AC3 should be possible if the rendering is running on the main editing machine. Network Rendering to mpeg2 works without any problems (on the main editing machine), but network rendering to AC3 immeditely indicates failure (on the main editing machine). Normal rendering to AC3 works without any problem. I find this bug somewhat annoying because I am using network rendering not to distribute rendering amongst several machines but in order to queue up jobs (on the main editing machine). I have not tested it with previous versions of Vegas, so I cannot say if this bug appeared in Vegas 6 or was already there in previous versions.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 5/19/2005, 9:14 PM
This was in the Vegas 5 build as well. I don't know if it's a bug or a licensing issue.
zdogg wrote on 5/19/2005, 10:14 PM
I think these two have licensing stipulations that prevent just what you are trying to do. The AC-3 is a fast render, (on a current machine, that is) so it really should not be a big issue either way. For the MPEG-2, I really don't know. I would, for myself, render to a AVI and then re-render to MPEG-2, but I am no expert here. You could, I guess, buy a second license, or bug the hell out of Sony till they relent and ....well, we can all dream. Dare to dream.

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dreamlx wrote on 5/20/2005, 4:12 AM
zdogg:

It might be that as spot said, that due to licensing restrictions, it is not possible, but a second license wouldn't change anything in this case, as the main Vegas installation and the network rendering are running on the same machine. And if I remember well, there was a post where someone from Sony was saying that there are no licensing restrictions (but maybe this was only for mpeg) if the network rendering service on the same machine is used. In fact I actually use the network rendering service only for job queueing and not for real network rendering.
B_JM wrote on 5/20/2005, 4:24 AM
network rendering to mpeg is difficult as it is not a linear render .....

dreamlx wrote on 5/20/2005, 11:04 AM
It would be nice if someone from Sony could comment on this, as I think they are probably the only people being able to tell if not being able to network render to AC3 on the main editing machine is due to licensing restrictions or if it is a Vegas bug.
B_JM wrote on 5/20/2005, 11:42 AM
It is neither - it is not required and would be slower ... It is a single threaded encoder - and parts of it are supplied to sony via a sdk ...



dreamlx wrote on 5/20/2005, 12:09 PM
B_JM:

I think you missed something in my post. I am not planning on using network rendering for distributed rendering in this case, but only for job queuing, so that a queue of jobs is executed one after each other on my main editing machine.
B_JM wrote on 5/20/2005, 4:22 PM
oh sorry .. yes missed that ..