How Do I Run Vegas Over Network???

beatnik wrote on 3/12/2005, 7:57 AM
I have 3 computers all talking to each other over a Linksys wireless
router. One of the computers is a Centrino notebook. I would like to
capture video to my desktop computer with Vegas and be able to
sit out in the yard with my notebook and edit the video on my desktop
over the network.

Can this be done??? Is this wnat everybody is talking about (network render)

If this CAN be done, do I have to set something up in Vegas?

Thanks,

Alex

Comments

ScottW wrote on 3/12/2005, 8:02 AM
Sure. Simply set the folder that contains your video to be shared. Then you should be able to access it from other machines on the network assuming they are all in the same workgroup. This is just windows file sharing and has nothing to do with Vegas and network rendering.

--Scott
Orcatek wrote on 3/12/2005, 8:08 AM
Not really - your network will not be fast enough.

Now what you can do is copy the media to the laptop over the network, edit and put back. But editting files on network drives is not going to be practical.

Even using remote desktop under XP will probably not be near fast enough over a wireless network.

And network rendering is using multiple computers to render your output at the same time. IE - you have 30 minutes of video with tons of layers, effects, fades etc. If you render it on one computer it might take 6 hours. So you set up network rendering with 3 computers. Now the process takes 3 hours. Note that 3 computers does not equal one third the time, as network rendering adds another step to the process which takes all the little pieces done by each of the computers and puts them together into the one final file, and that takes some time.



filmy wrote on 3/12/2005, 9:37 AM
Can't speak about wireless network editing but overall network editing with Vegas works great. I am edting footage off a W2K machine via network. The system was sent to me with the footage already captured and I wanted to use Vegas to edit it with, so I just hooked it up to my network and cut away. No glitches at all as far as droppped frames or playback goes. I am using your standard, out of the box, Linksys NH1005.

And no, this is not that same as network rendering.