When to render?

Xavion wrote on 8/10/2005, 2:08 PM

I'm editing down around three hours of horribly shot video to hopefully under 1hour. The person I'm doing this for insist on keeping as much footage as possible.

Usually, I edit music video's for personal entertaiment and small project's for work.

On a large project like this should I render say the church ceremony
to an MPEG-2 movie... and then render the dinner to a seperate movie file and the damce to a third?

Are would it be best to complete the project from beginning to end
and render the movie at one time?

Thanks in advance and sorry about the amateurish question.

Comments

Jsnkc wrote on 8/10/2005, 2:13 PM

Normally I wait to render out till i'm completely done with the project...it's a lot easier to change things that way if you need to.

Former user wrote on 8/10/2005, 2:18 PM

I would render when it is done, but you might want to do a SAVE AS... at various stages of the project so if something goes wrong, you have some backups. And you won't lose too much work if you save at crucial points.

Dave T2

johnmeyer wrote on 8/10/2005, 3:04 PM

Render as separate files is useful when:

1. You want to clear files off your hard drive.

2. You want to keep your Vegas project files small in order to keep them manageable.

3. You want to incrementally work on a project, and as part of this, you want to review your work on rewritable DVDs. It makes sense to only render small portions at one time.

4. You want to save portions of your work, in finished form, to be incorporated in a future project. You can then just "pop" the MPEG/AC-3 combo into a future DVD-A project, without re-rendering or doing anything else. Also, the storage is much smaller than saving the original AVI file. Of course, you have to be relatively certain that you can be happy simply re-using the exact finished project material when using this material in a future project.

Xavion wrote on 8/11/2005, 6:20 AM

Thanks all !