Render to new track

OldTimer wrote on 9/19/2003, 6:06 PM

I decided to try the render to new track feature just to see how this feature worked. The results bring up a couple of questions.

I notice that the new track now has it's own new timecode. Does this new timecode refer back to either the tracks below which were used to create this new track or refer back to your original clips which are on your drive as AVI's?

Does both the new track & your original tracks have to remain once it's created for you to continue with your project?

Comments

GaryKleiner wrote on 9/19/2003, 6:18 PM

The new media rendered to the new track starts at 0:00:00.

You can delete the orginal files if you are sure that the thew media will do what you need it to. Otherwise it's nice to have the original stuff around in case you want to make any changes.

Gary

OldTimer wrote on 9/19/2003, 7:13 PM

I suppose that the render to new track option could be used by those who are trying to whittle down the total size & complexity of their original footage by eliminating scene that they will never use in their final project or just eliminating mistakes. They would have to to send this new track back out to video however if they wanted to be able to recapture the good clips again at a latter stage.

Even better would be if you had the option for the new track to be split into scenes & retain all of the original data like date taken etc.

rmack350 wrote on 9/20/2003, 1:53 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong but won't your camera or deck write new timecode as you bump this off to tape?

Basically, the reason to render to a new track is to get a rendered version of something complex on the timeline. That way it will play back smoothly. Especially worthwhile with graphics although in that case you should render as uncompressed.

You seem to be talking about writing to tape to preserve your media-as in backing up the media for later recapture. I don't think this really works. To save rendered or otherwise new media you still have to put it somewhere as data. Maybe onto data DVDs or maybe to tape backup or maybe you just buy new hard drives and store the old one as an archive.

The best way to backup a project and all it's media is to "Save As" and choose to save all the media too. Save it all to a directory and then back it up. You can delete the original footage through explorer as long as you have the original tapes. That is the only media that can be recaptured.

It might be nice if a future version of Vegas would allow you to create a folder structure-to specify folders for prerenders, for project file(s), for sfvidcap file, for audio files, for renders, etc. Then when you "save as" you could have the option of preserving the structure (but all of it moved into one parent folder).

BTW, I don't know if you can copy your DV tapes from one deck to another. I have a feeling you'd lose the time code. Others here may know better.

Rob Mack