Pls help: render out many subclips

tbodin wrote on 4/30/2006, 9:32 PM
I hope someone here can give me a little advice to save a whole lot of time. I have 2 hours of video from a kids sporting event where each of 30 athletes demonstrated 4 different techniques. I want to post all 120 on a web site as .wmv files. I need to render out each small clip by inserting a begin and end for each render. What is the easiest way to do this please?

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Grazie wrote on 5/1/2006, 12:19 AM

This is a simple task for a Scripting tool. There are many flavours of what you want to achieve. I can't see why Subclips would be treated in a different way than the original file? But a good point.

Moving on . . . If you click on the Tools > Scripting > Batch Render you will see a menu to allow you to do what you want. I haven't tried such a large number of events to batch render, but I can't see why Vegas wouldn't handle your job? You will need to set up the parameters it requires. The biggest one I can tell is the need to arrange Regions on each and every Event. There are other scripts that will do this for you too.

PLUS: There are other tools too Excalibur by Edward Troxel and Ultimate S from VASST. PLUS a whole raft of free highly useful scripts created by our colleagues here.

If you aren't aware of what scripts can do, I'd truly try and impress on you that you give give 'em a go. Scripts were designed exactly for the type of job you have to do. Understanding what they CAN do will open up your creativity and make your more boringly, duplicated tasks happen very quickly and, more to the point, REPEATABLE!

Grazie
johnmeyer wrote on 5/1/2006, 8:11 AM
I do this sort of thing all the time. First, you use my Add Regions to Events script. Just click on the link and download.

Then you use the Batch Render GUI Script which you can download by clicking on the link. Just specify a location, the type of render (or renders) that you want to do, and then select "Regions" to create a separate render for each region. Sit back and watch the fun. Should take you less than five minutes to set up (less than a minute once you've done it before).