Do any of the file save options allow you to save the needed files automatically that are in the veg file?

I have 35 veg files that each can have 5 to 15 clips of our wresters I need to render out to make a DVD for each wrestler of their matches.

I want to export the veg and the associated clips to the firewire drive so I can keep working on the 2nd DVD each wrestler gets that is a highlight DVD. Have two weeks left before the banquet and I'm trying to not loose editing time, while files are rendering.

When you save as, you can check a box that lets you "copy and trim media with project" Then you get an option as to how much trimming is involved or none at all in which case all of the original clips are duplicated to the destination folder.

Remember that rendering using a networked computer is only really of any value when you are rendering a DV project to DV resolution. If you are working with HDV and rendering directly to an mpeg2 for a DVD you need to encode to mpeg as well as render. Because of licensing issues, this "encode" step can't be passed to the second computer along with the render and by the time the file gets passed back and forth between the two computers over then network, you really haven't saved anything over just doing it with one PC. That is one of the reasons why the new dual core chips are so useful.

You should look into batch rendering. Vegas has a batch render script that you can use, so when you are done editing for the day, you can set the script up to render as you sleep. You still may want to work on two computers, but this is an additional time saver.

"using a networked computer is only really of any value when you are rendering a DV project to DV resolution"

That's interesting. I'm just ordering a more powerful PC to improve HDV work and am keeping the old one to set up in a network (mostly for rendering). Your statement tells me that this isn't a useful idea. Correct?

Serena - you just can't specify mpeg2 as the segment render format (or check the "Use Final Render Template" if it is mpeg2) unless you have licensed copies of Vegas on each network renderer (e.g. a mpeg2 license on each, not just the single Vegas copy network license).

You can use other formats (preferrably uncompressed) for the segment format. Using the same format all the way through (i.e. segment format and final output format) simply speeds up network rendering. You can also have a different final output format from the network render format - i.e., mpeg2 for final, uncompressed for the network segments when "Use Final Render Template" is unchecked. The host just does the final conversion during the stitching process.

If you are interested in really flexible batch rendering then have a look at the Veggie Toolkit from Peach Rock productions at:
http://www.peachrock.com/software/veggie-toolkit.html

I can thoroughly recommend it!

He wasn't asking about network rendering, he was asking about using a second PC to render.

I have two licenses of Vegas and I frequently devide my projects up so that I can render on the faster PC while doing editing or graphics on the slower one. All my media drives are on the LAN, so all I have to do is copy the veg file to the rendering PC.

Steve

So what we really want is to be able to make a big machine by connecting multiple machines. Of course super-computers are now made by using arrays of COT (commercial off the shelf) PC processor boards, but this isn't just a matter of networking machines. One might imagine that multiple licences aren't inherently necessary, since Vegas could be written to recognise that a single job is being distributed. Obviously that isn't a present capability (talking HDV).

Of course, as has been pointed out, networked computers can be used in facilitating workflow prior to rendering.

Maybe consider a dual-core, dual-opteron motherboard? That would give you 4 processing elements and handle the MPEG2 rendering on one license.