Surprise: Prerendering doesn't help MB

Cooldraft wrote on 7/18/2006, 2:30 PM

I have gotten into the habit of prerendering then rendering to avi. Doing it this way seems to save time if I have to tweak one or two things. The render to avi is sooooo fast when it gets to a prerendered section. Here's the issue. I did the prerender to a MB clip (which took 9 hours), and went to render out to avi (dv uncompressed) and surprise- 9 Hours left (like I had never done the prerender). After I picked my jaw off the carpet, I wondered what I had done wrong. Stopped the render and made sure it was DV AVI (it was). Is this something that Vegas is doing with plugins?

Also, I noticed that vegas would not print the mb filter to tape (that is why I amm rendering the mb to avi first the printing to tape). Have I missed a few threads on this topic?

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Former user wrote on 7/18/2006, 3:12 PM

"and went to render out to avi (dv uncompressed)"

A DV AVI and an uncompressed AVI are not the same thing.

Is this really what you did?

Dave T2

Cooldraft wrote on 7/18/2006, 3:56 PM

Now that I look at this in slo mo (sometimes it pays to slow down a bit). I was just pressing enter and it WAS going uncompressed. Thanks for listening. Out...

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/18/2006, 7:51 PM

what's a "MB clip"? When I render sections to a new track & then I render a final copy it just copies the frames. It only slows down if it's reading/writing to the same drive.

Spot|DSE wrote on 7/18/2006, 7:56 PM

MB=Magic Bullet/Red Giant Software

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/18/2006, 8:34 PM

oh! Then I bet he's applied the magic bullet effect to a master/track fx & not the media/event fx. So it's applying the effect to an already processed effect. :D

I normally use "render to new track" to avoid this.

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/19/2006, 7:56 PM

any update if that's what it was?

Cooldraft wrote on 7/29/2006, 8:35 AM

Yes, I was pressing enter too fast and not noticing that It was prerendering using the uncompressed template. Don'tknow how this got set that way. Everything's fine - except the render times of MB :)