I tried rendering an 8 minute .avi generated by Premiere to .mpg in Vegas4. (No additional edits were made in Vegas.) Using the standard DVDA NTSC template, it took 22 minutes. My computer has a 1.8 P4 CPU and 512MB of RDRAM.
In Cyberlink's PowerDirector Pro, using the same source .avi, the rendering went much faster, but the end quality was worse. I think it uses a 6,000 Constant Bit Rate. DVDA will accept and burn PDPro generated .mpg files and burn them without recompressing.
Premiere will render a .mp2 file much faster as well, but DVDA won't read the Premiere generated file, even if you change the extension to .mpg. PowerDirector Pro will recognize the Premiere generated .mp2, though.
I tried rendering in Vegas by forcing various Constant Bit Rate settings, but nothing seemed to speed up the process. I didn't use an 8 minute file for those tests. It was more like 1 minute. No matter what I set it for, it took almost 3 minutes to render.
Any suggestions? Will Vegas4 make an .mpg using a Vegas .avi as source faster than from a Premiere source?
In Cyberlink's PowerDirector Pro, using the same source .avi, the rendering went much faster, but the end quality was worse. I think it uses a 6,000 Constant Bit Rate. DVDA will accept and burn PDPro generated .mpg files and burn them without recompressing.
Premiere will render a .mp2 file much faster as well, but DVDA won't read the Premiere generated file, even if you change the extension to .mpg. PowerDirector Pro will recognize the Premiere generated .mp2, though.
I tried rendering in Vegas by forcing various Constant Bit Rate settings, but nothing seemed to speed up the process. I didn't use an 8 minute file for those tests. It was more like 1 minute. No matter what I set it for, it took almost 3 minutes to render.
Any suggestions? Will Vegas4 make an .mpg using a Vegas .avi as source faster than from a Premiere source?