Re: Pre-Render then render

Maverick wrote on 4/8/2003, 12:14 PM

Hi

Further to my previous pre-render topic I decided to do a test (Vegas 4.0b). I pre-rendered a small scetion that I wanted to send to a friend for comments. Then rendered the same section to mpg1. I expected it to whiz through using the pre-rendered files but it seemed to render all over again. What am I doing wrong or have I missed the concept of pre-rendering.

Cheers

Comments

jetdv wrote on 4/8/2003, 1:28 PM

Did you pre-render in MPEG1???? Pre-renders should be DV. Then, when rendering to DV, the pre-renders are used. Rendering to any other format does not use pre-renders.

Maverick wrote on 4/8/2003, 1:38 PM

Yep - that's it.

I pre-rendered to DV - slap round the face for being so silly!

Thanks

Chienworks wrote on 4/8/2003, 1:39 PM

Actually rendering to any format will use the prerenders if they're DV. However, even if the entire project was prerendered, rendering it to MPEG still requires MPEG encoding. This can take a lot of time no matter what. Prerenders can still save some time in this case because any transitions or effects won't have to be processed, but the format conversion will probably outweigh any transitions or effects for processing time anyway.