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CyberPuppy wrote on 2/22/2003, 2:58 PM
You cannot work in the instance of Vegas that is selectively pre-rendering. However, since you can have more than one instance of Vegas open, you can be working on two projects simultaneously. Something I do all the time.
wcoxe1 wrote on 2/22/2003, 3:43 PM
I have had bad luck with this. I think it is my setup, though. I had a bit of trouble getting setup for just one instance. My computer seems to be marginal. If I setup wrong (which was right for everybody else), I get a TON of problems, including dropouts and stuttering. So, after a few tries which turned out miserably, I stopped trying to run two instances of Vegas Video 3.0. I just may try it again, with V4, just to see what I can do.

Oh, by setup wrong, I mean that I finally ended up in a rather unorthodox arrangement of disk assignments. Not at all the recommended or common way which works for everyone else. That NEVER worked on my piece of junk. The NORMAL way was wrong for MY particular machine. Although the odd setup works for one instance, it doesn't work worth a darn for two.


Like I said, marginal machine.

This problem is one of the reasons I use PTT for prerendering on breaks, lunch, and overnight every chance I get. Otherwise, I'd never get ANYTHING finished except on weekends when I could leave the computer rendering and I had no other use for the computer. Even some weekends I couldn't do that. So I just PTT (Manual) every chance I can get with the camcorder not connected.
OldTimer wrote on 2/23/2003, 8:42 PM
You have said that 'since you can have more than one instance of Vegas open, you can be working on two projects simultaneously'. Can you have say MPEG2 encoding going on in the background while you are either working on another project in another instance of VV3 or be say surfing the web. If you did this would this adversely effect on the MPEG file by creating duplicate frames etc?
Chienworks wrote on 2/23/2003, 8:49 PM
Rendering is NOT a time-sensitive operation. You can pretty much do anything you want to with your computer while rendering and the only effect it will have (as long as you don't crash the computer) is to make the render take a little longer. You can even render multiple projects simultaneously. I've had over half a dozen MPEG renders going on all at once, sometimes all from the same .veg file opened in multiple windows.