I rendered a part of my video to see how the animated (flowing) text would look. This was 40 seconds out of the video, but took 10 minutes to render. Is it normal for the type of text animation I've used to take that long to render? most of the videos I render take about 1/2 the time of the video to render, but this is excessive.
EDIT: It also shows it rendered 148MB, but the resulting MP4 file is only ~48MB
@anthony-chiappette On your screenshot it's difficult to see what could cause the slow rendering: project resolution, framerate, etc, what is on all those "empty" tracks?
The typing text animation needs ofcourse some rendertime, on my PC it takes about 2 minutes to render a 40 second typing text animation in 1080p50 (probably also very depending on how much characters there are used, quite a lot in your example).
The shown expected size of the MP4 file is just a guess, the final size depends hardly how much movement there is in the video, since there is hardly movement in your video (just the typing text) the final size could become much less than the expected size. I got for my text animation a guess of 97 Mb and the result is just 2,3 Mb.
@anthony-chiappette VP22 - Just for comparison. I set it to 1080p50 like 3Point's
Using the default text on the type-on Title 04, MP4 AVC (NVENC), it took 1.48min to render 40secs of text on a png. Rendered file size was 46.5mb even tho the render box says 96.28mb. (same speed using Mainconcept)
You can see in Taskmanager Vegas doesn't use much of my pc.
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MP4 HEVC was the same time but the file size was 19.9mb even tho the render box still says 96.28mb
Just did another test, the renderspeed depends a lot of how many characters are used.
Just did another test, the renderspeed depends a lot of how many characters are used.
That's probably it. I used a lot of text for that.
For clarification, the video is 1080p 60 fps. I render same as the source - in this case 1080p 60fps AVCHD 28Mbps, using NVENC hardware encoding. The empty tracks below contain events further into the video. I only rendered that short loop region.
Incidentally, that short 40 second clip rendered in 10 minutes. When I rendered the whole video, which was a little over 23 minutes, it completed in 17 minutes.
OK, something is fishy ....
I copied that small portion into VP22, with same project settings. I rendered that in VP22 with same render settings, and it only took 1:47 to render, and average frame rate was 19.8 fps, compared to 10 minutes render time with avg fps 4.35 in VP23.
@anthony-chiappette That's strange, when I compare the renderspeed of this Text animation in VP22 and VP23, VP23 renders much faster than VP22. I assume that this is due to my NVIDIA GPU:
There are those who experiance V23 faster than V22 and there are those who find V22 faster than V23. I find V22 faster in all aspects. At the moment no one knows why.
There are those who experiance V23 faster than V22 and there are those who find V22 faster than V23. I find V22 faster in all aspects. At the moment no one knows why.
Ditto 👍
I get slower speeds with VP23, that's why I'm still on VP22.
Other users people did report faster speeds with 23 than the 23 trial (watermark may have a performance penalty, bizarrely).
For the most part, I do get faster render speeds with VP23. I do have an nVidia GPU (RTX 5060 8GB). But it appears, at least for me, that VP22 handles FX rendering better than VP23.
@anthony-chiappette Sounds like the text media-generator may be the problem. If you could make the portion of the Vegas project with only the generated-media available for download, I'd be happy to try it on my 11900k system with both vp22 & vp23 and other settings.
I've used text with movement (Titles & Text) and added a drop shadow, and it was painful to render or playback. No shadow and only an outline, no problems. Using Layer Dimensionality for shadows, it plays back perfectly fine.
Thanks to everyone. I think perhaps this issue is solved?
I ran 3 tests on the original project, and all results were pretty much identical.
1) I deleted all the events after the opening and saved as a new file. I ran a regular render (entire project) and this is the result:
2) I selected the events as a loop region and ran the "Render Loop Region Only". I got pretty much the same result:
3) I reopened the original project and again selected the intro as a loop region, and ran a Loop Region Only Render, and again, I got approximately the same result:
My conclusion: Maybe the stars weren't aligned right that day, or maybe my system had it out for me, but it looks like my initial result was a one-off. I think maybe the system was just bogged down with all the editing I had done and produced the flawed result.
Perhaps, as part of my workflow, when I complete the project and save it, I will reboot my system to clear everything out, then render the project.
Thanks again to everyone for the suggestions and trying to help.
@anthony-chiappette Restarting your PC before a major render is always been the way to go. And I get the impression VP23 especially is suffering from what I would call "timeline play fatigue" (a term I just invented on the spot). So best to not edit nor play the timeline before a render...
@anthony-chiappette Restarting your PC before a major render is always been the way to go. And I get the impression VP23 especially is suffering from what I would call "timeline play fatigue" (a term I just invented on the spot). So best to not edit nor play the timeline before a render...
Sounds quite ridiculous the need to work that way, especially for a video editing programme, where viewing/editing/rendering should go hand in hand...😕