best way to handle 60 minute video

aress wrote on 4/3/2001, 11:49 PM

i am producing a 60 minute video using vegas video. the
final will be a VHS tape.

i am running win2k on a pentium4, and all drives are
10000rpm ntfs-format-70gigs.

what would the experts on this board do, compile all
segments and render them as whole? [which would be a very
long rendering session] or would it be better to make
segments, and render them individually????

we are going to render ntsc-dv, avi. or should we render as
another format?

thanks for the info.

also it would be nice to stop a rendering session, and pick
up the render again later at the same place, sort of like a
resume feature in a ftp program.

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db wrote on 4/5/2001, 10:03 AM

i'm not a expert. i have been editing segments of approx
10 - 18 min ... after i have around 54-60 min of edited
segments i'll copy and paste them into a single VV timeline
and then render out a single 60 min clip ( takes about
16min if no re-rendering on my 933 PIII, win2k )

i then print to DV. then from DV to VHS using elite's BVP
( video processor ) between them to improve the VHS copy.

nlamartina wrote on 4/5/2001, 12:49 PM

While I don't consider myself an expert per se, let me tell
you my technique for exporting long (in excess of 20 min)
videos. I use VideoFactory, but the premise is the same.

1. Create the ENTIRE project in Vegas. Clips, cuts, edits,
everything.
2. Save the project.
3. Highlight under 20 minutes of video. The beginning of
the highlight is of course the beginning of my production,
but the end of the TRANSITION.
4. Perhaps add a bit of black silent slack at the end.
5. Render that segment.
6. Export to DV camcorder.
7. Highlight the next black screen that will fade in as a transition (leaving a
few sec of slack). Also ending on another black transition.
8. Render segment.
9. Export to DV cam, right where I left off the last
segment. This way, the first clip has faded out, and my new
clip will be fading it.
10. Repeat until done.

That's how I try to do it, when possible. Granted, not all
movies has fade-to-black transitions, but if you can find
any spot in your product that can allow you to manipulate
the transition in a way that you can export multiple
segments under the appearance of one unified production, do
it.

Actually, now that I look back at your post, I see you're
running Win2K. Since you have NTFS partitions, you don't
have to do the whole 20 min segment business. You can
actually render the whole thing in one stream, which has
its advantages, but make sure you DEFRAG your disk
COMPLETELY before you export (and turn off screen savers
too!). Perhaps even make a seperate partition just for your
renders. Also, if you have a DV camcorder and 1394 bus
available, use the NTSC DV template (granted your cam is
NTSC too). That way, you can record your project to a DV
camcorder, and then hook the DV cam to a VCR and tape
again. DV has the best quality, by far, so you'll suffer
minimal genreation loss when slapping it on VHS. Don't
forget to use the print-to-tape program to export your
final project. Never EVER use the "external monitor"
function to put a project on VHS.

I hope this helps. Lemme know how it turns out.

Good luck,
Nick LaMartina

aress wrote on 4/5/2001, 7:36 PM

thanks for the feedback.
i am going to do the whole project as a whole, render it dv-
ntsc, and then firewire the whole enchilada to the dv
deck.
i did a test today with a 10 minute segment and went into s-
vhs and the results were very good.

what's up interlace, deinterlace???

i am going to also try exporting the whole final render
into premiere, only to run it thru cinelook. it would be
great to have someone create a plugin that can add a 'film'
stock look.

thanks again.

aress multimedia