Slow Render

Dan Sherman wrote on 6/8/2009, 7:25 AM

Any ideas as to why it is taking almost 4 hours to render an 11 minute project that consists of stills and an audio track along with about a minute of video?
No FX applied.
Rendering to MPEG2.
This is an updated project and I don't recall the render taking this long the first go round.

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 6/8/2009, 7:39 AM

How big are the stills? If they are too large you are asking Vegas to do a lot of work to resize them 30 times a second. Try resizing them closer to the videos actual resolution.

~jr

Dan Sherman wrote on 6/8/2009, 8:17 AM

Ah, that could be it I've added some new photos from the client this time around.
Will check the size.

TimTyler wrote on 6/8/2009, 10:04 AM

The other thing to check with unusually slow renders is Track Levels.

Make sure all your video track levels are set to 100% on the left edge of the timeline. If they get bumped to 99% YOU won't see any difference, but the rendering engine does.

Dan Sherman wrote on 6/8/2009, 10:56 AM

Into the video portion now, and the render is still creeping along like the proverbial snail.
So we can rule out stills as the issue.
I might expect this kind of performance with blur applied or almost any Magic Bullet FX but this timeline is FX free.

Dan Sherman wrote on 6/8/2009, 1:04 PM

94% and six hours, the render failed.