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Chienworks wrote on 11/21/2005, 8:04 AM
I think the point of Vegas is that you can see what you are achieving with less rendering, and you have to spend a whole lot less editing time to get there. Editing time = human time and is expensive. Rendering time = machine time and is labor-free.
busterkeaton wrote on 11/21/2005, 9:16 AM
I don't think Sony is going to create a hardware card for Vegas.
If they did, it probably wouldn't launch until Vegas 7, many months from now.

So in the meantime, what have you done to optimize your workflow? Perhaps we can help there. Are you working with Cineform or straight HDV?

It seems to me with a movie you have more flexibility than say a weekly TV show.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/21/2005, 6:59 PM
i'd also suggest (if you got cash, and you might) but an AMD Opteron system (duel CPU, duel core, both,... all good. :) ) & use that for rendering. You could network render with that while you edit more footage & not even have much dedicated rendering time because you're editing while rendering.
studiovdm wrote on 11/22/2005, 1:05 AM
Editing time = human time and is expensive. OK
Rendering time = machine time and is labor-free. OK
But for some project with many video layers and effect you need to watch in good resolution your movie... You need to render your project in full resolution (to do some adjustment)... And this is time and money... for professionnal movie, people are waiting for my work... If they wan't a little modification, they have to wait...
(sorry for my english)
...I was going to try network rendering...
PeterWright wrote on 11/22/2005, 1:25 AM
Do you use Ram Rendering?

Drag timeline to highlight a looped region and hit Shift/B.

Instead of rendering a file onto HD this renders into memory - super quick and allows you to view a selected passage at full frame rate - especially useful for many video layers.
farss wrote on 11/22/2005, 2:32 AM
Edius is indeed very good but to get all the bells and whistles of RT you'll have to spend a LOT of money and bear in mind that the RT is only good for a couple of tracks.
I didn't get to see just how badly it slows down once you hit the limits of the engine but I'd imagine it's then no faster than Vegas. The other thing that put me off was its rather twee GUI, looked more like WMM on steroids, not that one should judeg a books by its cover.
Bob.
JJKizak wrote on 11/22/2005, 5:39 AM
The method I use is render out the section in question, change the file ending from m2t to tp, place the file into the MY-HD-130 card file folder, then play the file. It plays to perfection on an HDTV or whatever you want to use. The steps are a bit lengthy but the MY-HD 130 HDTV card is around $250.00 right now and it is very reliable, mine is about 2 years old. You can also force Media Player to play it and then view it out the HDTV overlay of the Matrox APVe video card but it is very jumpy.

JJK
TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/22/2005, 5:59 AM
yes, time = $$ however time spend in the inverse of $$ spent. Spend less $$$ & it takes more time. If you want instant preview or really fast playback, prepare to spend a lot more money then if you want to spend more time waiting for renders. Rendering also costs money. it may be labour free, but it still takes time, could be more time then editing.

if I were you i'd render all the HDV files to DV, then edit the DV ones. Doo all your edits/previews/etc. Then replace the DV media with HD media when you're ready for a final render.