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rustier wrote on 9/5/2006, 9:20 PM
I don't think so. The full version of Vegas supports scripts which I believe could handle what you want to do.
ritsmer wrote on 9/5/2006, 11:57 PM
You can have more instances of VMS running in parallel - it is not real batch processing, but so you can use the night hours to get some heavy rendering done.
I normally start rendering in one instance and then change the priority of that process to Low (Ctrl+alt+del, click Processes etc).
Then I start the next instance and so on.
Because the running instances of VMS have priority Low you do not notice them while starting the following instances.
I have had up to 4 instances of VMS rendering happily during the night.
Please note, that your CPU is used 100% these hours, so be sure, that it is well cooled.
Also note, that an instance of VMS takes xxx MB to over 1 GB so you should have at least 1 GB RAM and plenty of Pagefile space.
Chienworks wrote on 9/6/2006, 4:49 AM
I use the multi-instance method for multple renders with the full version of Vegas. I've had over 12 renders running simultaneously all night with only 256MB of RAM. True, it takes a little longer than running them sequentially, but not much. One test i did showed that running the renders sequentially would have taken 8 hours, and running them in parallel took 8.5 hours. Of course, that extra half-hour is a tiny price to pay for not having to stay up all night to start each successive render when the previous one finishes.
mikeminzes wrote on 10/27/2006, 10:16 AM
There are several cheap and free video converters out the that will batch process video clips into the same format. However there is no why to render more than one project at a time until you run many instances of VMS. This is really counter productive becasue you end up slowing your machine down to a very slow crawl and increase the time it takes to render.
Chienworks wrote on 10/28/2006, 3:23 AM
Mike, i find this method very productive. My computer doesn't slow down any more than if i was rendering a single file at a time. As noted above, my rendering time for 4 files only increased from 8 hours to 8.5 hours; barely any change at all. And ... i could spend that 8.5 hours sleeping straight through the night instead of setting the alarm to wake me up every 2 hours to start the next file rendering. That was VERY productive! Of course, that 8 hours could have been spent doing other things too ... visiting friends, shooting video for a client, going to work, taking a hike, helping a neighbor rebuild their roof ... etc. All of those activities would be much less successfull if you had to run home every two hours to start the next render.