Vegas still produced two rendered files! I am unable to play the files as one. Anyone have a better solution for this? Perhaps another DVD authoring program?

Could it be because both files are over 3 gigs each? Is that the reason why?

That would do it almost everytime.

You may a 4 gig limit on you PC.

Why are you not rendering to MPEG2?

I have winxp and have a 1.2 gig amd cpu and 1 gig memory. Where do i change the 4 gig setting? Thanks.

Just change partitions of your HD form FAT 32 to NTFS. NTFS has no 4 Giga limitation. Hope it will help.

When I reformated my drive I had it fixed to NTFS. Gotta check it out. Also, is it a good idea to render as mpeg2 rather than avi, since I will burn to dvd anyway? Is this correct? Thanks again.

The thing is at some point the file is a MPEG-2. You can render it to MPEG-2 in Vegas or some other application or you can bring in a AVI to DVD-A and it will convert it to MPEG-2.

Its really a do it now or do it later thing. I prefer to render to MPEG-2 while still in Vegas. It just seems more practical.

Read slowly...

I make 2 renders of nearly everything I do. I first render as DV AVI. This is so I can put a copy of my finished project on a DV tape, playable from my digital camera. Because I'm also going to make a DVD, while still in Vegas I take the FINISHED (meaning rendered) DV AVI file and start a new project, then render to MPEG-2.

Why?

Its MUCH faster. I get better than real time doing this. So a 40 minute project gets rendered to MPEG-2 in about 37 minutes or so. I have a very fast processor. If you don't your speeds will be slower but this is still the faster way to get a MPEG-2 assuming you also want/need a AVI copy.

Now I take this MPEG-2 and use it as the source for the DVD simply dropping into DVD-A. There is no re rendering of the video portion, but DVD-A will re render the audio to make it legal because I'm in NTSC land a necessary step.

If I were to use the DV AVI tape as source for making the DVD, then DVD-A would re render the whole thing, both the video and audo and it would take a much longer time. So why you can use AVI as source, generally doesn't make too much sense because at some point you need a MPEG-2 and the method I just explained works best for me. Your mileage may vary.

Bill,

"while still in Vegas I take the FINISHED (meaning rendered) DV AVI file and start a new project, then render to MPEG-2."

Why do you take the rendered DV AVI and start a new project and then render as Mpeg 2?
I usually take the edited project and render it first as AVI and then again as Mpeg 2 from the same timeline (project).
Is there an advantage to doing it the other way? Have you tried both? Is it faster and, if so, is there a loss in quality from taking a rendered DV AVI file and then rendering as Mpeg 2?

John

Yes, MUCH faster. Like at least 2 to 3 times faster at lease.

No loss in quality. I just kind of discovered it early only when I first started using Vegas. I too then would just render from the timeline. Once for AVI then again for MPEG-2. By taking the rendered AVI and just starting a new project with just the rendered file on the timeline it flys along. Because all the hard caculations are done... its just converting from AVI to MPEG-2 the second time around. If you render again as a MPEG-2 from the timeline as part of the same project, it goes through all the bumps and grinds all over again.

I'm kind of surprised SoFo never suggests you do this. But I guess not everyone makes multiple file type renderings.

BillyBoy

Great Advice! I'll try it...

-kleb

Vegas 4 was supposed to fix this. You were supposed to be able to prerender the video like you do for print-to-tape and then it was supposed to use these prerenders when rendering as an AVI or MPEG2, etc. That was the whole point of prerendering, so your transitions and FX would be taken from the prerender files and everything would be as fast as if you rendered to AVI and dropped that back on the timeline. Have you tried this in Vegas 4? (because in Vegas 3 I did the same thing you are doing because prerender only affected print-to-tape).

~jr