Render Progress

Jim H wrote on 12/23/2008, 9:08 PM

As I sit here staring at my computer watch a project render I wish that Vegas had a progress bar showing me where its at along the time line. Sometimes certain things in a project you want to watch go by and with some long projects you just don't know by looking at the preview when it's coming.

It sure would be nice to have an active community of software geeks pumping out plug ins wouldn't it? I was just browsing through all of the firefox plugins thinking how great that would be to have that many nifty gadgets to try out with vegas. It is Christmas right?

Ho ho hum.

Comments

johnmeyer wrote on 12/23/2008, 10:37 PM

This may or may not help. I was actually going to post this tip earlier today.

I'm waiting on a 36 hour render (definitely time for the new PC) and I suddenly wondered, oh no, did I remember to use the render template for widescreen? The display in Vegas was, for some reason, showing 4:3. I was 15 hours into the render, and didn't want to stop and maybe lose the file (you can kill Vegas externally and the file won't be deleted).

Anyway, I decided to try my backup software, which can copy a file even when it is locked by an application. So I backed up the partial MPEG-2 render and then "restored" it to another location. I put that in DVDA, added the complete AC-3 file, and burned to a DVD+RW. Thus, I was able to verify not only the widescreen setting, but that everything else about the project was looking really good.

This whole issue of usability is something that I hope gets addressed by whomever takes over this software some day. There are sooo many things -- many of them simple to implement -- that would make a huge difference to how quickly you can get things done.