Background render

sumitagarwal wrote on 10/15/2003, 1:02 PM
Hi all, this is my first time posting to the forum, but I've been reading for a long time. I was wondering what people think of background rendering as a possible feature in Vegas5? I think it would be extremely useful and sounds easy to implement. Of course this would greatly benefit from multi-threading/multi-processors (which Sony really should add).

Also, I understand that Vegas is meant to be as hardware independant as possible, but I think it would be great if they added support for WYSIWYG television output through videocards instead of the firewire output alone.
-Sumit

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 10/15/2003, 1:32 PM
You can open more than one "instance" of Vegas. Open your project in the first instance and start rendering. Use the second instance to continue editing on another project.
sumitagarwal wrote on 10/15/2003, 1:38 PM
I should clarify that I meant background rendering for preview purposes, as in Vegas continually renders the current project as you edit to deliver smoother, higher-res previews.

Here is a Pinnacle Systems description: http://www.pinnaclesys.com/ads/editionDV500/background.htm
Newtek:
http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?s=b8bbd6e12d7bef15b640146ccb553f71&postid=41177#post41177

-Sumit
RichMacDonald wrote on 10/15/2003, 1:39 PM
On the second background rendering instance of Vegas, do a ctrl-alt-del, select TaskManager, then Processees, look for the background vegas app, select it, do a right-click, select Set Priority, then choose Below Normal. That way your main app remains responsive.

Update: Sorry, you were posting a clarification at the same time. Never mind.