Prerender is great but could use some improvement. Here are 2 issues: 1) If I preview my avi in draft quality, it actually draws with a lower fps than with preview quality. 2) Whichever level of quality I prerender at, I need to preview at the same quality to get the best performance (fps).
IMHO this is not the best approach. Instead, Vegas should respect the preview quality setting as a *minimum*, but should not "dumb down" to the preview setting and incur the performance penalty of doing so.
Perhaps others prefer the current approach. I'd like to know why. The reason it is a problem for me is that I am doing a slide show with very hi-rez stills. Vegas takes significant time to display each new still, so I switch to draft mode to minimize this delay. (Proofing the pan/zoom/crops.) Now I also want to prerender portions, and I want to prerender to avi at highest quality, so I can "reuse" this avi when I do the final render. But this means I have to switch the preview window to best quality for the prerendered bits, else Vegas "dumbs down" the preview to draft, which is even slower than no prerender at all. IOW, I cannot realistically edit/preview both prerendered and nonrendered at the same time
YMMV, I've got a very slow machine, but it seems like an unnecessary problem and a simple patch for the programmers to alter. The only reason for not making the change is: "Is there a reason for anyone to intentionally work at a lesser quality than their source?" I can't think of one. Can anyone else?
IMHO this is not the best approach. Instead, Vegas should respect the preview quality setting as a *minimum*, but should not "dumb down" to the preview setting and incur the performance penalty of doing so.
Perhaps others prefer the current approach. I'd like to know why. The reason it is a problem for me is that I am doing a slide show with very hi-rez stills. Vegas takes significant time to display each new still, so I switch to draft mode to minimize this delay. (Proofing the pan/zoom/crops.) Now I also want to prerender portions, and I want to prerender to avi at highest quality, so I can "reuse" this avi when I do the final render. But this means I have to switch the preview window to best quality for the prerendered bits, else Vegas "dumbs down" the preview to draft, which is even slower than no prerender at all. IOW, I cannot realistically edit/preview both prerendered and nonrendered at the same time
YMMV, I've got a very slow machine, but it seems like an unnecessary problem and a simple patch for the programmers to alter. The only reason for not making the change is: "Is there a reason for anyone to intentionally work at a lesser quality than their source?" I can't think of one. Can anyone else?