Vegas renders EVERYTHING??

Astronuts wrote on 4/23/2003, 12:16 AM

Hi,
okay, I must be doing something wrong here. If I put clips on the timeline - straight DV clips, no transitions nothing - and then go 'print to tape' - Vegas starts to render. If I open a project based on the clips settings - so everything conforms - a single clip here mind you, I go 'print to tape' - Vegas starts to render. What is it rendering? Does Vegas render everything - whether it's native DV or not? How could this work in a long form project? Transitions and effects I can understand - but a cuts only timeline? I thought we lost the dreaded 'make movie' syndrome a couple of years ago.

Help!

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 4/23/2003, 6:33 AM

Vegas will always render a new audio-only file for the entire project.

jetdv wrote on 4/23/2003, 8:42 AM

Load the AVI and do a PTT and you will get the following passes:

1. Check to see if anything NEEDS rendering
2. Render audio to .w64
3. Print to tape
4. Cleanup

If it determines anything DOES need rendering, that will go between 1 and 2 above.

filmy wrote on 4/23/2003, 11:06 PM

Ya know I was getting the same thing and it was freaking me out and pissing me off. But then I looked at something and it *might* be a bug. Say you render out a DV file using 24P and than bring it back into a project. All the settings may 'look' to be the same but here is what I found out - if you go to the actual clip settings and look under frames/fields - it will either be upper, lower or none. For DV it seems to deafult to 'lower' no matter what. So in my case even though I had a 24P project and a 24P file it would still say it had to render before PPT, but when I looked at the clip setting it was 'lower' and when I changed it to 'none' - problem solved. No render for an already rendered file.

But the render of the audio still happens and that always used to happen. A bit of a problem however if you are doing a feature film.