How Many Levels Can I Nest?

birdcat wrote on 10/2/2005, 2:04 PM
Hi Kids -

Just finished my first major project in Vegas. Final product is 3:21 in length.

I was using nested projects three levels deep (main.veg includes midlevel.veg which includes bot1.veg, bot2.veg, bot3.veg and bot4.veg, along with a couple of normal tracks - All the bot files are just two-four video tracks). The total time for the midlevel.veg is 0:11 (11 seconds). I am using both pan/crop as well as track motion in most places (about 12 keyframes per track), along with chroma key and very little else.

I found that Vegas was having a heck of a time rendering main.veg to MPEG2 directly, it took about two hours before I finally canceld the render (was on the same frame for over 20 minutes). I found that if I rendered midlevel.veg to an AVI file (took about 40 minutes) and included that instead of the .veg file, the final rendering of main.veg to MPEG2 took about 30 minutes.

Is it not a good idea to nest multiple levels or is it just this project?

Thanks.

Bruce

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 10/2/2005, 2:20 PM
Sounds like it's just that project has something significant holding it up. As far as levels or number of veg files, you're only limited by your CPU power.
You might try rendering just that one segment to a new track.
Nat wrote on 10/2/2005, 7:41 PM
Just to add a little something, I recall Matthew Chaboud telling me there is actually a limit to the nesting level tough I don't remember the number. He also told me this could be changes in the internal preferences.

Nat