keep rendred

Aerie wrote on 10/11/2002, 5:55 AM

Hi! I have a rendered project, but now I need to take out some clip from the project, is there anyway after I take out the clip squeez the space rest of the clips will be rendered? When I did so it shows a whole new project, when I delete the clip it shows unrendered only that position, but when I delete the space it shows whole project is unrendered.

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seeker wrote on 10/12/2002, 3:12 AM

Aerie,

In most projects you would not want to skip re-rendering because the sound tracks would still apply to the original video.

"...when I delete the clip it shows unrendered only that position, but when I delete the space it shows whole project is unrendered."

I will let participants more knowledgeable than I address that. At least my response will have the effect of bumping your currently unanswered query to the front of the list. (grin)

-- seeker --

Tyler.Durden wrote on 10/12/2002, 8:51 AM

Hi Aerie,

It sounds like you have a PRE-rendered project, that you are removing an event from. If this is the case, and you delete the event and the space, all following events will need to re-render.

If you want to save some time, you can print to tape and re-capture the footage as a new DV AVI, and cut the segment. Vegas will not re-render anything except any transition you use to join the two new pieces. The quality will not degrade whatsoever.

I recently did this on a project with many pan/crops of images... re-rendering would have taken many, many hours of time.

HTH, MPH

vicmilt wrote on 10/13/2002, 10:34 AM

I have gotten in the habit of Rendering to a New Track, in different sections, as I complete them. This gives me discrete sections so that if I have to ripple (take portions out) of the edit, I don't have to rerender everthing. At the very end of the editing process, I create yet another new track comprised of all of the others. The render time on this is "relatively" quick.
Selective Pre-render as conceptualized in VV is a great idea. But I've given up using it at all, since it craps out at the slightest excuse, and hours of prerendering time dissappear. Rendering sections to a new track, on the other hand leaves me with discrete high quality AVI sections that can easily be used, shited and shuffled around.
If I'm missing something here, I'd love to hear it.

mfranco wrote on 10/13/2002, 12:35 PM

Just because the project file claims that you are no longer prerendered, you can still use the prerendered files you've created.

Vegas doesn't erase the files from your drive until you evoke 'Tools -> clean up prerendered video.'

The files are in the temp folder designated in the properties dialog box and are named 'Vegas Video Prerendered Video File XXXX.avi' and will be numbered sequentually. While prerendering, Vegas will tell you the number of the file (0013, 0014, etc) and the file sizes average 35Mb. I'll COPY the files I'm interested in saving to another drive or folder, rename them something else and bring them into the media pool or timeline. It allows me to do before/after tests on prejects and often I end up using the prerendered stuff.

Setup: PIII 600mhz, 500+ RAM, W2K sp2, Vegas temp folder on seperate drive from application, projects previewed on external monitor connected to 1394 camera.

vicmilt wrote on 10/13/2002, 6:57 PM

what would be truly great would be a "relink prerendered files" option.

Paul_Holmes wrote on 10/13/2002, 8:25 PM

I like Render to a New Track, and I also like to just do a File Render As occasionally as I feel I've finished a section. Really, when you're rendering to a new track or creating a rendered file, you're doing the same thing as Vegas, except you can see the new track, or name the file whatever you want. It doesn't take up any less HD space, either way.

So here's to 200G firewire drives. (I'll get along fine with my 2 80G for a while!).