save movie to hard drive

bee.r wrote on 2/9/2008, 4:53 AM
Forgive me if this is a really stupid question. I'm new to Vegas - new to video editing.

I've put together a short 'teaser' for a longer film and when I 'make movie' it's not rendering as it plays in the preview window. I have a 22" film clip and sound clip and am putting titles over the top. All is well when playing it in the preview screen, but when I either use preview in player from the tools menu or save it to my hard drive the visuals take way too long. The sound stays at 22", the movie clip claims to be 22", but when played it's more like 44".

I'm rendering it as an uncompressed avi file as I want to preserve as much quality as possible.

Can someone help it's driving me up the wall.

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 2/9/2008, 12:30 PM
Maybe it is 22", but your PC is slow and can't keep up with uncompressed, and so the media player you are using it's using the technique to show all frames, even if it can't keep up. This has the effect for the video to take longer, even if in reality it's not longer. You see, there are two ways to playback a file that you can't keep up with: drop frames, or show all frames, but it will take longer.