Photo Montages

wolfbass wrote on 2/14/2005, 5:03 AM

Hi All!

Been a while, I know, getting back into life and doing a little less with the P.C. of late.

Grazie: I made a come back as a flannelled fool at 39 years old. Got a mean outswinger going too!

But onto my question.

I'm putting together a photo Montage of approx 35 photos. I scanned them myself, at 300DPI. The size varies from 5" x 7" to almost A4. They are all on the time line, aspect ratios matched using the script, and each photo is pan and scanned to within the TV safe area.

However, when I go to render, my system claps out and tells me I'm out of resources.

I'm running a Celeron 2.6 with 1 gig RAM, and heaps of hard disc space. I haven't had this problem with any other render.

I've searched the data base and nothing specific like this pops up.

Any hints would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Andy

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 2/14/2005, 5:21 AM

Welcome back!

It could be that the images are too large. If their physical dimensions are greater than 2000 pixels in either height or width, use a photo editing program to resize them (bicubic) to 2000 or less. There will still be plenty of resolution for pan and scan of only 720x480.

~jr

wolfbass wrote on 2/14/2005, 5:25 AM

Thanks JR!

I'll give that a go

wolfbass wrote on 2/14/2005, 5:53 AM

JR:

If I change the size in photoshop, will they automatically be changed in Vegas?

Cheers,

Andy

AlanC wrote on 2/14/2005, 7:28 AM

Yes I think any changes you make outside of Vegas to images that are in the media pool will be reflected immediately in Vegas.

But going back to your problem, I just tried loading a 18,786 kb bmp into Vegas (4,000 x 1,603 pixels).

I did a simple pan from one side to the other then rendered out as Video for Windows (avi) and also Windows Media 8 (wmv). No problems.

jetdv wrote on 2/14/2005, 8:20 AM

Try pre-rendering sections and then doing a final render (which will use those pre-renders.)

Jsnkc wrote on 2/14/2005, 1:55 PM

JohnnyRoy wrote on 2/14/2005, 4:42 PM

Yea, as other have said, Vegas will recognize the changes. That’s one thing I love about Vegas. You can work on a file outside of Vegas and it picks up the changes automatically.

~jr

wolfbass wrote on 2/14/2005, 5:53 PM

Hi All.

Thanks for all the tips.

Johnny Roy was bang on the money. I reduced all my Photos to a max size of 1500, (in either the x or y plane, which ever was the larger) and Vegas updated the montage, rendered and played all like a treat!

Thanks Johnny Roy, much appreciated.

I'll know next time :)

Cheers All

JohnnyRoy wrote on 2/14/2005, 6:03 PM

I’m glad that worked for you. I do a lot of photo montages so I’ve come across a lot of these problems.

It’s hard to believe that only 35 pictures could cause this but we don’t realize that while an uncompressed 8x10 at 72dpi screen resolution is only 1.5MB, that same 8x10 at 300dpi is 27MB. 35 x 27MB is 945MB (~1GB!) which is all the RAM you have. So it makes sense.

~jr