Prerendered Video Tip for Previewing.

Grazie wrote on 10/26/2007, 10:47 AM
I've been meaning to post this one for some time now. Probably been posted before . .anyways . . and purely FOR Previewing . .

Prerendering video, of course, comes with the default GOOD quality. Fine.

Does it take more time to build than PREVIEW quality? Do I need to prerender video for preview purposes, better than PREVIEW? Well I don't. So, I got my own PREVIEW quality Prerender Video template that uses Preview quality. It does build pretty quick.

For previewing larger, longer lumps of multi-track this works for me better than BUILD RAM preview.

So it's SHIFT+M and use my template.

Used it all afternoon today and gets my narrative going a treat.

Cheers,

Grazie

Comments

CClub wrote on 10/26/2007, 12:44 PM
Grazie,
You're always good for throwing out a hook and someone always bites... I'm intrigued. When I'm editing a 3 camera concert, I always use Excalibur to prerender the top track which has the three cameras on it simultaneously. Does this process you use just pre-render the top track (If not, I'm assuming if I mute the lower tracks it would just render the top track)? Also, can you list your "preview template" settings for the pre-render?
rmack350 wrote on 10/26/2007, 3:16 PM
Brilliant idea.

The question I'd have is whether Vegas knows enough not to use that as part of a smart render. Say you make a DV25 prerender at draft quality, and then set the whole project to make a final render at DV25 Best. Can Vegas tell the difference, or does it blindly copy the prerender.

Rob
Grazie wrote on 10/26/2007, 3:27 PM
CC - When I go to Prerend the menu comes up and in there I chose "Preview" quality.

Rob - I think you are correct. As I said, this would ONLY be for getting to a more flexy-sexy Preview. Smart render? Dunno. But I would wipe out all prerends prior - that should cure it. Mind you . . it WOULD be neat IF Vegas could differentiate. But I don't see how it could though?

Anyways, the Previewing does appear to be hassled along though. The Holy Grail "Slicker-Previews" . . .

Grazie
rmack350 wrote on 10/26/2007, 5:10 PM
For myself, I don't think I'd ever do a final render of DV material to DV, so it wouldn't matter, and speed is always good! But maybe it's a got'cha to watch out for.

Thanks for the tip!

Rob Mack