Rendering in vegas

Rhino wrote on 2/11/2003, 7:17 PM

Lets say that I render a long film into four regments.... when I render the film into one long film, will vegas double compress that... i.e. once for the inital render and again for the final render or will vegas just join the clips together to make on long film without a second comression?

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Chienworks wrote on 2/11/2003, 7:35 PM

Well, that depends. But you knew that already ;)

If your source material is uncompressed .avi and you render to uncompressed .avi, then render again to uncompressed .avi, then there won't be any compression. Similarly if you use DV .avi throughout there won't be any additional compression except where you have transitions, effects, fades, titles, etc. However, SonicFoundry's DV codec is incredibly good at preserving the quality of the image, so these addiitonal compressions make almost no noticeable difference at all.

If your final output is going to be some more compressed format like MPEG or WMV, then you should still use DV .avi for the first renders to minimize the recompression.