Enhancement Request: Pause during Render

ThatJimGuy wrote on 4/6/2004, 10:26 AM
Would it be possible, and would anyone else like the ability to pause the rendering operation? Sometimes I have multi windows open and want to pause one so that the shorter one can finish quicker. Or sometimes I do something else in some other application and just want to pause the rendering for 5 minutes or something until I am ready again.

I know, I should just render when nothing else is running, but sometimes I need to do other stuff since it takes so long most of the time to render.
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Update: I just realized I can drop the priority of the vegas process to low, and this helps a lot, but I'm wondering if there will be any adverse effects to doing this...

Comments

JL wrote on 4/6/2004, 10:45 AM
Hmmm, I've always just gone ahead with any number of other applications during a render process, including editing in another Vegas window, burning DVD's, scanning and photo editing, printing, downloading from the web, etc. I've never noticed any sluggishness in any of the apps, or other adverse effects; but then I run a dual proc machine.

JL

johnmeyer wrote on 4/6/2004, 12:13 PM
This has been requested before on these forums. Hopefully Sony has taken note. It would be an easy feature to add.
Cheesehole wrote on 4/6/2004, 12:30 PM
Yes it sucks there is no pause. What if you are running out of hard drive space unexpectedly? You have to race to move files off the drive. It's happened before and I lost the race. Had to start a long render over again.
riredale wrote on 4/6/2004, 12:45 PM
Another option would be to go into Task Manager in XP and set the priority of the rendering process to "low." Then the rendering would take place only if no other process or program on your computer needed anything. It would be pretty much as if Vegas was not running at all.
ThatJimGuy wrote on 10/22/2004, 6:52 AM
Thanks riredal, I think I may have originally suggested that, and that's what I do.

I still think a pause would be nice for those of us without SMP mobos and non-dedicated machines.

I'll just build a dedicated one, as I should have already :-o