If you have any issues, try to export the project in segments, say 5 hours or so, at a time, then combine those into one big video file at the end.

What's the need to make a project that long? Who is going to sit in front of a screen for 40 hours watching it?

Hello frosty thank you for the quick reply, if I render out 5 hours at a time then what software could I use to combine the 8 five hour segments together? I thought it would be simpler just to render out the whole thing as one 40 hour long video in Vegas.

Have you ever used Vegas to render out any very long video projects? if yes did it all render without any crashes or issues?

Try google. Plenty of 'free video joining software' out there. May be produce a few short files & test before committing a lot of rendering effort. Don't forget you can have several instances of Vegas open so parallel rendering is possible. Just make sure you have room on your disks for your masterpiece.

Try google. Plenty of 'free video joining software' out there. May be produce a few short files & test before committing a lot of rendering effort. Don't forget you can have several instances of Vegas open so parallel rendering is possible. Just make sure you have room on your disks for your masterpiece.

Thanks for the response diverG I appreciate it, I was unsure about purchasing vegas but I think after the responses I will give it a crack.

Anymore responses will still be appreciated I just purchased a portable 2TB harddrive for the project as I am guessing the file is going to be very big.

A side question, can vegas render to external harddrives?

Dear friend, that that graphic card with 2GB-RAM is one dangerous thing and the other:

A TV-Sender's program, very commonly, has the size of ca. 450MB for ca. 30min.

Say, 1min-size=15MB

40hours=2.400min=15x2400=36.000MB=ca. 36GB

It seems you need something more to execute your plan, in short, you have the wrong worry about.

Dear friend, that that graphic card with 2GB-RAM is one dangerous thing and the other:

A TV-Sender's program, very commonly, has the size of ca. 450MB for ca. 30min.

Say, 1min-size=15MB

40hours=2.400min=15x2400=36.000MB=ca. 36GB

It seems you need something more to execute your plan, in short, you have the wrong worry about.

 

Hello Yelandkeil thank you for your reply,

Which graphics card would you recommend?

Is my GPU too weak for basic editing such as adding text, my project will mainly contain royalty free clips with basic transitions and text nothing more.. very vanilla

You use VEGAS to recombine the clips, just drop the rendered clips back on the timeline and render them together. Doing this reduces any effects/text etc processing down to 5 hour increments (or less, you can try lower and lower until it works). That's assuming your system can't handle the job as it is now.

You use VEGAS to recombine the clips, just drop the rendered clips back on the timeline and render them together. Doing this reduces any effects/text etc processing down to 5 hour increments (or less, you can try lower and lower until it works). That's assuming your system can't handle the job as it is now.

I understand thank you!

For GPU try to find one that Vegas supports (4GB ram as minimum). NVIDIA 16XX, 20XX or 30XX cards would work if there are any you can afford. Given the length of the project you may want GPU rendering to cut render times. Otherwise MagixAVC with Mainconcept is going to take quite a while (1:1 or 1:2?)

There should be clip joining software that won't rerender, though this isn't something I've done. I'd read up on it.

Yes Vegas can render to external drives but does need space on your system drive to create a temp file so ensure there is plenty of room.

For GPU try to find one that Vegas supports (4GB ram as minimum). NVIDIA 16XX, 20XX or 30XX cards would work if there are any you can afford. Given the length of the project you may want GPU rendering to cut render times. Otherwise MagixAVC with Mainconcept is going to take quite a while (1:1 or 1:2?)

There should be clip joining software that won't rerender, though this isn't something I've done. I'd read up on it.

Yes Vegas can render to external drives but does need space on your system drive to create a temp file so ensure there is plenty of room.

Hey RogerS thanks for the indepth reply I will look for some Nvidia graphics cards today, Hope the prices come down soon :(

Are temp files usually the same size as the final rendered file or bigger?

Lets say I am going to render a huge .mp4 file that is going to be 256GB in file size..

What size do you think the temp file would be? Thanks again for the responses guys I really appreciate them!

I don't think that the "40 hours" is the factor, it's the complexity. you can have a 1 min project with tons of FX's and tracks and hit the wall. At any rate doing it in shorter segments is the first top tip.

Before buying a new graphics card I would be inclined to make a few tests. Have found rendering out to a USB connected is slow due to the bandwith of the USB port. I don't recognise your machine. I presumed a laptop as you had purchased a portable drive.