Anyone rendered a 6 hour DV?

kevgl wrote on 11/8/2003, 7:45 PM

Hi guys

Just finished editing 6 hours of conference footage together Going to dump it to VHS for the client to preview before I do a final transfer to 4 MiniDVs (will have to go in two halves for each day, 1.5 hours each or thereabouts).

I haven't tried playing out a long timeline from VV, should it be able to handle staying in sync and non-stuttering for 3 hours at a time, or should I render out to 1 long (or two 3 hour) DVs and play them out from the timeline?

Eventually the VHS dubs will come from MiniDV, but for now I'd rather not go through that extra process.

BTW This system has never dropped a frame in or out. Using two Raid0's on a 2.8 GigPIV with 1 Gig RAM so I'm hoping there's enough headroom to do it.

Cheers

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Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/8/2003, 10:57 PM

I have done print-to-tapes for projects that are longer than 1.5 hours (onto VHS via my camcorder). Didn't have any problems (that I know of).

kevgl wrote on 11/8/2003, 11:03 PM

Cool

I ended up deciding it was safer to render out to 2x3hour AVIs then I'll dump them later tonight, I've seen VV be somewhat flippant about tossing out pre-rendered segments :-)

Anyone know what causes that? ie, under what circumstances VV decides those pre-renders are no longer valid? I've seen some disappear two hours back up a timeline when I'm sure I haven't done anything that could have altered the video there.

Cheers

Liam_Vegas wrote on 11/8/2003, 11:08 PM

I did actually render... rather than print-to-tape from the time-line. I did a print-to-tape of the rendered AVI from the capture utility.

kevgl wrote on 11/8/2003, 11:12 PM

Yeah - got a feeling that is the safer option :-)

Cheers