storing trimmed clips

KEK wrote on 5/21/2005, 8:09 AM
I have 20 hours of footage for a project. Because media pool doesn't like being overloaded, I work with two hour chunks, take the stuff I want and render it to a hard drive. At the end I plan to import all of the good stuff that I want to work with (avi files) and make my movie. Is this the best way to work with Vegas? Is there any disadvantage to this kind of premature rendering?

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johnmeyer wrote on 5/21/2005, 8:39 AM
It works fine. If all your original video is DV, then there is no noticeable degradation in having a few intermediate renders. However, anything (like titles) that didn't start out as DV will not be color-compressed to DV's limited 4:1:1 colorspace. If your final destination is DV tape, then this doesn't matter at all. However, if your final destination is DVD, which has a richer colorspace, then you will lose something in your still photos, titles, and footage that was captured in a wider colorspace than DV 4:1:1.
rs170a wrote on 5/21/2005, 8:43 AM
Is this the best way to work with Vegas?

With 20 hrs. of footage, absolutely!!

Is there any disadvantage to this kind of premature rendering?

The avi codec in Vegas is recognized as being one of the best so that's not an issue. Lots of folks here are doing it the same way.
Happy editing :-)

Mike
vicmilt wrote on 5/21/2005, 11:33 AM
With hard drives being so inexpensive, I'd opt for another hard drive to contain the overflow...
why?
because if your current HD crashes you will have NO accurate way of resurrecting your job.
That is, right now if the HD crashes you simply redigitize the footage... not nice buy not too bad (after all, Vegas only looks for the footage in your latest cut).
Using prerendered footage as a source, while incurring no resolution problems, does leave you out on a line.

Another possiblity, if you don't want to spring for another 80Gig drive (about $40 in Best Buy) is to do some Pre-selects, culling out all the obviously "bad" stuff, and then "Save As" clicking the "Copy and trim media with project" box. Then you can erase the bigger files. That's the way we used to do it when Hard Drives cost $4,000 a gig.