Please answer a question on rendering?

memory maker wrote on 4/26/2005, 12:16 PM

I had about 20 minutes of DV, and two title slides. When I "render as" it took over 6 hours. Is this typical, or am I not doing something right. I use to have VegasMovie Studio and render time was much shorter. Any input at all would be most helpful-thank you!

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Former user wrote on 4/26/2005, 12:35 PM

There's plenty of posts on this subject by using the search function in this forum, but, in general it all depends on your computer's CPU speed, Hard drive, RAM & background programs like virus protection that effect render time. Fades, FX effects, text & frame resizing (4x3 to 16x9, high rez photos down converted to 720x480) play a big roll, too.
HTH

Jsnkc wrote on 4/26/2005, 12:37 PM

Check to make sure your video levels are at 100%...make sure you have no effects on the video track. a 20min video on an average computer shouldn't take nearly that long to render. Do you get the message that says "over 80% of the video needs to be rendered" when you start your render?

Spot|DSE wrote on 4/26/2005, 1:10 PM

In VMS, it's very easy to render because all the templates are clearly laid out. Vegas doesn't offer quite the same simplicity.
Two things I'd look for;
1. Be sure you're rendering to the NTSC-DV template and not to uncompressed by accident.
2. Look for any filters you may have dropped on a track or master window. You'll find these filters by looking for a green button on the master or track view.
If you've put filters on individual events, this too, will show up with small green buttons on any affected events.
All that said, my first look would be the format you're rendering to.

B_JM wrote on 4/26/2005, 2:27 PM

quote: " Check to make sure your video levels are at 100%."

yea - that has caught me more than once, even at 99.9% it will "get you"

memory maker wrote on 4/27/2005, 4:40 AM

Thanks for the tips- the video track was set in 3D-I don't know why and I hadn't noticed it before. I redid it with the settings you suggested and render time was less than a half hour- thanks again for the much appreciated information!