Render Times for Nested VEG Files

gdstaples wrote on 1/19/2006, 10:18 AM

I have two separate projects that take approximately 35 minutes each (1:10 total) to render (HD to NTSC). When I embed one of the VEG files into the other to combine renders for a single output file it takes nearly 2.5 hours to render. Why the difference? Any work-arounds?

Duncan

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GmElliott wrote on 1/19/2006, 10:41 AM

I've found the similar issues with using nested VEG files. Thus the reason I completly avoid that feature despite it's potential usefullnes in my workflow.

Maybe it'll be fixed by Vegas 7 this year around NAB time. If not, then I don't want to upgrade. They need to address past issues before piling on "new" features.

johnmeyer wrote on 1/19/2006, 10:42 AM

I don't use this feature very often, but are you using 6.0c? I know there were problem reported in early 6.0 versions, but I thought they were fixed.

kentwolf wrote on 1/19/2006, 10:48 AM

My guess is that this is precisely the issue I mention in the "6.0d when??" thread.

Do you have markers on the timeline on which you use the nested veg file?

kentwolf wrote on 1/19/2006, 10:52 AM

>>I know there were problem reported in early 6.0 versions...

*If* this is the nested veg/markers issue, I am pretty sure that this bug was *introduced* with 6.0c. I know I used markers with nested veg's before 6.0c (6.0b) and it worked fine. This issue did not exist at that time.

There were, however, other issues...like not being to do a preview of a non-Vegas (i.e. Boris Red, SteadyHand, etc.) rendered avi file...among other issues.

gdstaples wrote on 1/19/2006, 11:48 AM

I am using 6.0c and both projects have markers.

So if I remove the markers this will fix the problem?

Any scripts to remove all markers?

Thanks,
Duncan

GmElliott wrote on 1/19/2006, 12:38 PM

Just right-click above the timeline choose Markers> Delete All

gdstaples wrote on 1/19/2006, 8:02 PM

Thank you.... I will report the results back.

Duncan

johnmeyer wrote on 1/19/2006, 8:50 PM

You can also select all the markers in the Edit Details view (by clicking on the button at the intersection of rows and columns) and press Ctrl-X to cut them. Then, paste the information into Notepad. Later, if you want to restore the markers, just select the blank Edit Details marker view and cut/paste the information back from Notepad. A bug in Vegas keeps this from working with Regions.

Wes C. Attle wrote on 1/20/2006, 3:21 AM

I noticed during my last project that my nested project only utilized one of my two CPU's during rendering.