Weddings

Tower wrote on 1/18/2002, 2:22 PM

Anybody editing weddings or similar long projects with Vegas ?
Is it suitable for a 2 hr dv wedding?
Just basic titling, trimming, no real fancy stuff.
How long would 2hrs dv take to render be say for a system with Athlon 1900 xp & 512 ddr ram, 80g Maxtor ?

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 1/18/2002, 2:48 PM

I've used Vegas to remaster 3 hour VHS recordings to new copies with
a few edits & added titles & such, so it can obviously handle projects of
that size.

Render time? The single biggest factor is what file type you will be
rendering to. If you have very few altered areas and most of your video
is simply straight camera shots (no cropping, effects, etc.), and you
render back to DV, then you should be able to render a 2 hour project
on that computer extrememely fast, perhaps even under half an hour.
Vegas only has to process areas that have added effects, titles, fades,
etc. and the rest is just a file copy.

If large portions of your project include effects, then the render time will
increase greatly. Also, if you render to MPEG or some other format, that
will also increase the render time greatly. Add an HSL filter to the whole
project and render for a DVD and you could see a 2 hour project take
well over 12 hours.

Control_Z wrote on 1/19/2002, 10:23 PM

I do weddings. Render time really isn't a factor unless you start adding color correction, which I hear can be a real render hog in VV3. We do so many weddings we just don't bother.

Usually, if I have disk space left, I'll just render the whole thing first. VV3 does this very nicely in the background or overnight.