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Spot|DSE wrote on 2/6/2005, 7:48 AM
No tips, you're asking the system to rescale and convert frames, and tha'ts one of the slowest processes there is, and Vegas ain't the fastest renderer in the world on top of that...
BillyBoy wrote on 2/6/2005, 8:20 AM
Here's a tip:

Anytime you need to make multiple renders when changing from one format to another like from AVI to MPEG do not simply leave the project on the timeline and render again. That forces Vegas to redo all the gymnastics of whatever editing, filters you've added.

Instead:

Take the RENDERED file you just made and drop it and it alone in a new project. Now render in the different file format. It should fly along. I do this all the time and transcoding from AVI to MPEG or the other way around the second render is often real time or less. In other words if your 40 minutes project in the original render as a AVI took six hours, then the second render as a MPEG should take 40 minutes or less assuming of course you got a half way decent PC.
Arco wrote on 2/6/2005, 8:22 AM
OK. Thanks.
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/6/2005, 8:27 AM
That's what he said he's doing, rendering from a master avi file.
"I rendered it to AVI and have created easily an NTSC MPEG-2 file from that AVI. Now I want to create a PAL MPEG-2"
Rendering to a new format, framesize, and framerate will be slow no matter what. There are a lot of calculations going on there, and 2 pass won't help the situation.
Arco, do you really NEED two pass? Unless it's very fine detail or somewhat high motion, you gain virtually nothing.