I just found the following small mistake in a one hour project: I used the wrong photo in one five second segment.
I am producing a DVD, so I need to render to MPEG-2. Also, I want DVD Architect to create a single titleset because this makes chapter navigation work on all DVD players. I therefore need to render to one single, large MPEG-2 file.
As a result ot this, my simple change to five seconds in my project means that I have to render this ENTIRE project again.
What a NEEDLESS waste of time (three hours, in this case)!
What Vegas and/or DVD Architect need is the ability to do "incremental renders." One way to do this would be to have Vegas specify, via chapter markers, which section of the MPEG-2 file had been re-rendered. DVD Architect would then combine this new segment, via a lossless cut/join capability with the original MPEG-2 (and AC-3) file.
One closely related benefit of this approach is that it would let me avoid having to render the project in one large MPEG-2 in the first place. With the current releases of Vegas and DVDA, this is something I need to do in order to avoid multiple titlesets and the navigation problems these create in some DVD players.
However, there is another way for this feature to be implemented
The other possibility would be for Vegas to offer some sort of "incremental render" feature directly within Vegas itself. I envision using markers stored in the MPEG-2 file to sync up with chapter or other markers in Vegas. With incremental render, you could specify that you are re-rendering only the section between Chapter 3 and Chapter 5. Vegas would then render only these sections (just like render to new track), but would then cut and join this new render with the original MPEG-2 and AC-3 files, at the chapter marks. The lengths of the new rendered segment wouldn't have to match, because the cut & join operation would merely splice the segments together.
This would save a TON of time. The same thing could also be done with AVI files. Imagine not having to re-render the entire project? All you would need to do is make sure you include chapters in your project, and that these chapters be saved to the rendered object (or in some sort of associated file).
Am I missing something here, or would this not be a KILLER feature?
I am producing a DVD, so I need to render to MPEG-2. Also, I want DVD Architect to create a single titleset because this makes chapter navigation work on all DVD players. I therefore need to render to one single, large MPEG-2 file.
As a result ot this, my simple change to five seconds in my project means that I have to render this ENTIRE project again.
What a NEEDLESS waste of time (three hours, in this case)!
What Vegas and/or DVD Architect need is the ability to do "incremental renders." One way to do this would be to have Vegas specify, via chapter markers, which section of the MPEG-2 file had been re-rendered. DVD Architect would then combine this new segment, via a lossless cut/join capability with the original MPEG-2 (and AC-3) file.
One closely related benefit of this approach is that it would let me avoid having to render the project in one large MPEG-2 in the first place. With the current releases of Vegas and DVDA, this is something I need to do in order to avoid multiple titlesets and the navigation problems these create in some DVD players.
However, there is another way for this feature to be implemented
The other possibility would be for Vegas to offer some sort of "incremental render" feature directly within Vegas itself. I envision using markers stored in the MPEG-2 file to sync up with chapter or other markers in Vegas. With incremental render, you could specify that you are re-rendering only the section between Chapter 3 and Chapter 5. Vegas would then render only these sections (just like render to new track), but would then cut and join this new render with the original MPEG-2 and AC-3 files, at the chapter marks. The lengths of the new rendered segment wouldn't have to match, because the cut & join operation would merely splice the segments together.
This would save a TON of time. The same thing could also be done with AVI files. Imagine not having to re-render the entire project? All you would need to do is make sure you include chapters in your project, and that these chapters be saved to the rendered object (or in some sort of associated file).
Am I missing something here, or would this not be a KILLER feature?