Bob! Great idea about cutting global warming... :-)

Steve

Just a simple solution; once the countdown starts counting down instead of building up, set your watch or set a timer with that amount of time and when it goes off, go and check to see if it is complete. If the clips are around the same amount of time with the same effects applied- you should only have a short trial and error process until you get it within a few minutes.

j razz

Ding!

Why does my mouth always water when that happens?

A play sound and/or shutdown script, would be nicer.
Such as when rendering is done close Vegas, FTP mpeg to customer's server,
then shutdown.

Yeah, DVD-A already has the ding but you reminded me about global warming. Nova showed how to correct for global warming last night by launching of a Super Volcano which happened 75000 years ago and plunged the earth into an ice age which took a couple thousand years to correct. Yellowstone is one of the super volcano sites that erupt every 600,000 years and it's been 640,000 since Yellowstone erupted. That is not good. Satelite measurements indicate that Yellowstone is bulging up every year with more pressure.

JJK

I use a kitchen timer, a small digital type..

We could all do our part to cool the earth.
Buy Al Gore's book, and burn it.
The resulting smoke could cool things off a tad.
Not as much as a Super Volcano.
But if we all just did our part.

There's another theory making the rounds.
It suggests all those polar bears are peeing in the Arctic Ocean.
And THAT'S why the ice is melting up there.
Send Bob Seger north with a big gun.
Another celebrity with a solution!
Gotta work.

Frogger777, farss, try this:

Vegas Girl: Plays a Happy Sound When Rendering Finishes

Thanks you guys! You are all so full of great ideas! I appreciate all the information.

:-)

Steve

Did that work, Steve?

Thanks Jonathan, I'll give it a try when I can.

The shutdown PC option apart from saving a fairly small amount of power was mostly because I run renders at another location, it might be several days before I go back there to get the encoded files back and shut the PC down.

For those with any doubts about global warming I'd strongly suggest reading The Weathermakers by Tim Flannery, not a good read if you're an old school greenie. His suggestion is the planet needs another 500 nuclear plants by 2050. He accepts that many will be killed by the attandant nuclear accidents but in the grim calculus of the impact of global warming that's a more than acceptable price to pay. The other rather startling discovery is that global warming didn't start 200 years ago with the industrial revolution, it started around 8,000 years ago with the development of wetland farming in Asia and fish husbandry in Australia. Both these activities dumped enough methane into the atmosphere to avert the nex ice age cycle and permit the current growth in human knowledge and expansion.
At some point in the not too distant future natural cooling will catch up with us and then we'll need to be pumping all the C02 into the atmosphere that we can. The trick will be not fry oursleves in the intervening period.

Bob.

johnathan, didn't work for me...i opened it and it put vegirl in my taskbar, but that's it. what do i do with it?

p.s. when i tried to download it, it made me save it as a .php file. i re-named it and unzipped it.

While it's running in your taskbar, open vegas, and then render something. :)

aha! i was looking for something more complex. not the first time i've gotten in trouble doing that. is there a way to change the alert sound? not that i don't like it, but i need something really loud like "heyimdonecometurnthecomputeroff.wav"
either way, thanks. i know this will come in handy.

Jonathan, you beat me to it. Very neat and slick.

I was halfway through a similar app with the option to shutdown the PC and also to play whatever .wav file the user puts in the application's folder.

Are you going to develop yours further?

Alan

Absolutely, AlanC, I've just been trying to get work done on VegBun. In the meantime, you can listen to some of the other Alert Sounds I put together for v1.1.

http://madison.thewikies.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=28&p=35

Maybe we could work together on this too; I would be happy to share all my designs with you. It's really simple to make an application like this (as you know), so I could have the whole thing finished today.

I downloaded and placed into my start bar as you explained... nothing happened at the end of my rendering to signal it was so. hmmm. VEGIRL is in the start bar, and everything is up in volume.

I noticed that another user was able to use what you did and liked it... I must have not done something right.

Will keep trying. I will let you know.

Steve

Jonathan, I think your method of monitoring the render completion is better than mine. I was using the sudden reduction in the CPU activity to trigger the alarm.

But a couple of ideas to give the users more customisation.

1. Allow them to place their preferred wav or mp3 in the same folder as the application and play this on completion.

2. Repeat the alarm sound until the user acknowledges it.

3. Provide an option to shut down the PC when rendering is complete.

I programme in Visual Basic so I don't know if our work would be compatible?

I liked the alternative alert sounds, particularly those that are specific to Vegas. Keep up the good work.

Alan


You should try my simple Hyper Link Creator