Video rendering seems to take for ever

Splotter wrote on 9/24/2003, 3:29 PM

Does anyone have any idea as to why it takes so long for me to render, Im creating AVI's using camtasia and applying the audio in a wav format. When I render the final product as an avi using techsmith codec the file is one huge!!! and it took 20 minutes to render an 8 minute video. when I render these using camtasia studio it only takes a few minutes. Any one have any suggestions,
P4 2.4 800mhz fsb with a gig of RAM and 80Gig HD

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Jay Gladwell wrote on 9/24/2003, 3:33 PM

Depends on many things--filters, plugins, transitions, etc. Vegas is known for its speed of editing projects, not rendering them.

Many of us render at night. While we're asleep, the 'puter is churning away! ;o)

GaryKleiner wrote on 9/24/2003, 4:16 PM

The codecs that come with Camtasia are all progresssve (non-interlaced). If you are rendering to an interlaced format (for non-computer video) there is a lot of processing involved.

When I created my Vegas Video Editing DVDs, it took over 100 hours of rendering, but this also had to do with my capture resolution which I got better at controlling towards the end of the project.

Gary

johnmeyer wrote on 9/24/2003, 4:22 PM

As VideoCurmudgeon said, many things can affect render time. Some things, like Supersampling can make the times go astronomical (and often with very little impact on the final result). The same thing goes for changing the render quality from Good to Best.