Advice for LARGE montage project please!

memory maker wrote on 10/11/2006, 10:17 AM
Once again, appreciation in advance to all who help me out! I am about to tackle a large project: 1200 slides and 100 pictures to be set to music for a family history. I have Vegas 7, DVDA4 and Ultimate S. I am thinking I would be best off doing several sections and redering them. Then should I put the sections back in Vegas and render together or put them in DVDA? If they just go into DVDA will it flow smoothly or will it be like seperate movies? I want this done for Christmas so anyone with any time saving ideas will be my hero. Thank you!

Comments

ScottW wrote on 10/11/2006, 11:25 AM
You always run the risk of a small delay when going from one movie to another on the DVD; I would avoid rendering small parts as seperate MPEG-2's and then combining them with DVDA.

My suggestion (which I've found works well on larger projects), break into smaller groups, render to DV AVI (@ best), then bring the individual AVI's together for the final render to MPEG-2.

I'm sure lots of other folks will have some other workflow suggestions.

--Scott
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/11/2006, 11:33 AM
why not just make projects for each song in the montage, and then just bump those .veg files end to end in one large project and hit render? (only thing you'd have to do here is name the .veg files so that they are clear in their order of flow)

BTW, how long is this going to be? 1200 slides @ 8 seconds each = 2hrs and 40 minutes. That's one LONG slide show.

Dave
rs170a wrote on 10/11/2006, 11:35 AM
I agree completely with Scott's advice.
I do a graduation video for my kid's school and always split it up into 5 different segments. Makes editing much easier. :-)
Instead of rendering each one out though, I now use the nesting feature that was added in Vegas 6.

Mike
TeetimeNC wrote on 10/11/2006, 2:10 PM
1300 images and slides at 6 seconds each works out to over 2 hours. Will your audience be able to endure a 2 hour montage? The way I make montages they only want about 6-10 minutes ;-).

Jerry
memory maker wrote on 10/11/2006, 2:28 PM
I agree it is long, but it is what they asked for. I will have to look into the nesting feature- I went from 5 to 7 and am not familiar with how to use it. Thanks all for your help!
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 10/11/2006, 3:27 PM
nesting is just like clips, drop the project file on the Time Line, and there you go.

If you are doing short sections of substantial 3d Compositing, nesting is a GREAT tool to keep your render times shorter too, so don't forget about it, if you do large composites.

Dave