Help with prerenfders needed URGENTLY!

pb wrote on 12/11/2002, 3:56 PM

Hi,

Here's the problem:
1) captured as SF codec DV
2) few effects, mostly straight cut
3) all video must be prerendered in 35 meg increments
4) prerenders disappear if I minimize Vegas or close the project (no, delete prerenders on exit is not enables)

1.8 ghz Pentium with 1 gig RAM, firewire and SCSI drives, ATI Raedon card etc. Don't think it is a hardware issue.

This is serious for me because it takes about three hours to render the project and I have to ship it tomorrow morning. I've run out of ideas.

Any help is welcomed!

Peter

Comments

SonyEPM wrote on 12/11/2002, 4:20 PM

Not sure what is happening, but since you are in a time crunch I would render the entire project to on DV .avi file, and print that to tape in a new Vegas project (or from Videocapture). No-recompress areas won't degrade and will copy fast (just like file copy), so your overall render time will not expand much.

Tyler.Durden wrote on 12/11/2002, 6:10 PM

Hi pb,

You might also consider PTT and re-capture with zero loss.

Drop yer re-captured program onto the top track and split it where you need to make fixes.

HTH, MPH

pb wrote on 12/11/2002, 6:17 PM

Thanks, I'll set it to render when I catch the bus at 8:00 PM; hopefully it will play for the client tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM. What settings could we have messed up to create this minipchunk prerender problem? When we first got Vegas it only rendered the places where there were effects or dissolves and it seems to me the render indicators varied in length.

Peter

Tyler.Durden wrote on 12/11/2002, 7:34 PM

Hi pb,

A long render where you don't expect one can be a sign of a errant track effect, or project-based FX.

As for the small chunks, I think Vegas has done this for some time. It can help when you make small changes.

MPH

wcoxe1 wrote on 12/11/2002, 8:44 PM

Just out of curiosity, are you remembering to SAVE after each prerender AND before exiting the program? If not, you throw away all your prerenders.

Like our local voters vote, save early and often.

pb wrote on 12/12/2002, 8:34 AM

That's the weird thing, I save after every prerender but the darn things disappear BEFORE I exit the program! I am sure this was not the case when the program was first installed but lack the computer systems expertise to judge whether this is a harware or Windows 2000 configuration issue.

Anyway, in 20:00 I will play the rendered AVI file for the client, using Premiere 6.0 for real time, clear playback.

pb