Rendering to a new AVI track

Xavion wrote on 12/30/2005, 7:28 AM

If I render my project in Vegas 5 to a new track, where all tracks are merged into one AVI file. How much picture and sound quality will I
loose when I render out to a final MPEG2 file?

I'm trying to pre-render my project into three different AVI files. My
preview of the video get's really choppie half way through. So, I
thought rendering and compressing to AVI might help.

Comments

epirb wrote on 12/30/2005, 9:20 AM

If you are rendering so you can just watch the sections at full frame rate go ahead and do so. If everything looks correct or the way you want it, then delete or mute that track and do your final render from the original T/L , for optimum results if you can. esp if you are using generated media.

there are may options and it depends on what you have on the tilmeline ie: all DV footage,HDV,Stills etc.

Steve Mann wrote on 12/30/2005, 2:02 PM

I routinely render to a new track just to have a clean AVI file of the project for backup. You can render AVI to AVI in Vegas a number of times without any noticeable degredation.

DSE once did an experiment with this issue. If I recall, he rendered an AVI file over and over in various NLE's. Most started looking crappy after just a few renders, but Vegas still looked good after ten re-renders.

I hope DSE will correct me if I got my recollection wrong.

Steve Mann