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Tyler.Durden wrote on 2/8/2003, 8:01 PM
Hi Barry,

Using the loop-selection tool, you can define a section of the timeline to render at the finish-quality. This can help you see the composited elements play at real-time, including out to external monitor. You really can see what you will get.

These prerenders are volatile... you might make a change in the program that will affect that segment and the prerender will be necessarily wiped-out.

In V4, the prerenders will be used in the final render of a program as well as Print to Tape from the timeline.



HTH, MPH

Tips:
http://www.martyhedler.com/homepage/Vegas_Tutorials.html

wcoxe1 wrote on 2/8/2003, 8:41 PM
Prerendering regions is only one use. You can also prerender the whole project.

You can just tell the system to Print to Tape and it will start at the beginning and prerender numerous separate 10 second segments one after the other. These prerenders are "Final" as long as you don't make a change that causes a need to render again. In effect, you can use PTT to do a render piecemeal, every time you go to lunch, or the bathroom, or a break. This can save hours on every project.

In VV3, the prerenders are particularly volitle. However, in V4 they are quite a bit less so. In addition, in V4, should you need to render to a SINGLE continuous file, the RENDER command, rather than Print to Tape, will do a render which can actually take all the prerenders and make a single file of them, quite quickly. This can save HOURS, all over again. If there is something that is not yet prerendered, RENDER will take care of that, too.

The new, more stable nature of prerenders, and the assembly of prerenders into a single continuous .AVI are, in my opinion, worth the price of V4, all by themselves.
bjtap wrote on 2/8/2003, 9:33 PM
Thanks guys. That was the info I sought.
Barry
Randy Brown wrote on 2/11/2003, 3:04 PM
wcoxe1 said >These prerenders are "Final" as long as you don't make a change that causes a need to render again.<

There must be something I'm missing here because when I open it back up it's not prerendered any more.
TIA,
Randy
jetdv wrote on 2/11/2003, 3:11 PM
Go to Options - Preferences and find the following option:

"Save active pre-renders on project close"

Make sure this option is CHECKED
Randy Brown wrote on 2/11/2003, 4:06 PM
Thanks jetdv but that's the first thing I checked. The other day I opened a .veg a few minutes after I saved and sure enough all of the green bars at the top were there just like before saving but now theyre gone and the monitor is sluggish again.

update: I just prerendered again closed, then opened and it's still good so since no one else is complaining I'll bet I did something before to make it "unrender". If it happens again, I'll report back but for now let's just blame my ignorance : )
Thanks again,
Randy