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busterkeaton wrote on 2/16/2005, 9:00 AM
You probably rendered the video to DV avi which is a bigger frame and higher data rate than Mpeg1. You can choose to render to MPEG-1 in the render dialogue box.

However, Mpeg-1 is already a compressed format. Rendering to mpeg always requires recompression, so be prepared to take a hit in quality. If you can avoid it, you don't want to use Mpeg-1 to edit. It's delivery format not an editing format. If you put a DV clip on the timeline and rendered to DV, you don't lose anything. Even if you added titles and effects, DV stands up much better than Mpeg-1.
the_learninator wrote on 2/16/2005, 9:36 AM
i got a better question that i hope someone could help with

I have 1.4gz p4 with 384 megs of RAM

is there any way to get vv to render these files faster? or is the rendering engine just slow? I look @ the sys resources and it doesn't look like much is happening with the kernel.
Jimmy_W wrote on 2/16/2005, 9:42 AM
Are you applying many fx or track motion, pan crops.
lots of things can alter render times.
JImmyw
Mandk wrote on 2/16/2005, 9:53 AM
One thing I do to speed render times is to render only the avi files in Vegas. I then render (or is it transcode) using Procoder to the WMV, MPEG, or MOV formats. Much faster.

Another thing I have found when using moving backgrounds and certain effects (Boris or any similar thing not native to Vegas) is to render the smaller file to AVI and include the rendered version on the timeline. A set of moving backgrounds I purchased are 780*486. Using these in Vegas made the renders horrible. Taking the 10 second loop, rendering to Vegas AVI, and then using the looped background reduced the increased render time to almost nothing.

This probably is old news to experienced users but saved me a lot of time once I discovered.

Hope this helps.