An 8-hour render is not uncommon - slightly depends on what format /s you are rendering to, and isn't particular to Vegas. There can be a LOT of processing to do.

And uploading ? That is purely a factor of your internet connection speed and file size. You sure you are not blowing your account data allowance and dropping back to dail-up speed or something.

geoff

I have no idea what you're talking about with regards to my account dial up speed? Is there is setting Vegas regarding this?

If so, I must have missed it?

Hasn't been an issue before......?

Thanks Geoff, I appreciate it.

Joe

He's saying that Vegas has nothing to do with the upload speed. It's a factor of how fast your internet connection is, and how large the file is.

The dropping back to dial up speed comment, I didn't quite understand. Thank you.

Since your system specs are not available here, we have no way of knowing if you could benefit from a hardware upgrade to speed up your 8 hour render. Vegas 12 will allow you to make use of the processing resources in video adapters, but you don't state whether your video adapter might be qualified.

Some of us might render your job in 30 minutes, but none of us could know.

Oh. Good to know. My equipment is all pre 2007 stuff. XP

1 gig of ram

Maybe next year I can upgrade.

Thanks for all your advice


Joe

For $1000 you could probably render it in 50 minutes.

Just the way I like my info.

Thanks!

Joe

This tutorial created by members of the Sony Vegas forum would likely be of interest to you.

XP that is current on patches barely runs on 1GB. RAM is cheap, an extra GB could buy you another 9 months on your hardware.

I like the way you think. Thanks

Great Video however, let me iterate that, I do not know if my footage warrants even hd?

Mainly Speakers so far. I switched from my old 2008 handycam which I filmed MMA cage with to my avchd when I began filming shorter events.

although the rendered product seems to be terrific with hd, if I can't get through the render/upload before Christ comes....back, or without a power failure, etc......

geez us.

It seems my equipment is way out of date? When I request my computer guy to build or expand my current, and pick out new hardware, any suggestions?

currently:
MSW XP home edition
service pak 3
intel (R) core Quad CPU
2.4 GHZ
2 GB RAM
Money is definitely an object so I'm looking for reasonable speeds, not necessarily the best.

Thanks in advance.