Working with multiple Projects

cpalermo wrote on 5/22/2006, 8:05 AM
I am putting together a highlights dvd for a local high school football team and I have each section (Passing, Rushing, Defense, etc.) broken up into individual Vegas projects so that it wouldn't be so taxing having all the clips on the same project. That being said, what is the best way for me to render the final product? Do I have to copy over all the timlines to a single project and render the full thing? Or can I somehow render each project on its own and then assemble all those rendered projects for another rendering (which I'm hoping would be quicker, but don't want any double rendering)?

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Thanks...

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RalphM wrote on 5/22/2006, 8:13 AM
Assuming that you want to render to a final avi, if you have Vegas 6 you can just pull all the project files to the timeliine and render the entire batch at once. If you have Vegas 5 or earlier, you can pull the completed avi files to the timeline and render to one large avi. As long as you don't change the individual avi's there should be no re-rendering.
johnmeyer wrote on 5/22/2006, 8:53 AM
Various ways to do this. I assume you are wanting to create a DVD, thus will need to render to MPEG-2.

1. Render each project to its own MPEG-2/AC-3 files. Put those into your authoring program. If you are using DVD Architect, if you put the individual MPEGs into main page, each will create its own titleset, making navigation difficult. Instead, insert a Music Compilation and put the MPEG-2 files into that. They will be combined into one titleset, and navigation will be smooth.

2. Render each project to its own MPEG-2, but use an external program, such as Womble's MPEG-VCR to combine them into one file. Do the same for the AC-3 files.

3. Render each project to its own DV AVI file. Put all those files back on the timeline in a new project and render from that.

There are other workflows, but those are the most common.
TeetimeNC wrote on 5/23/2006, 5:19 AM
Here's yet another approach: Create a separate project for each section in your video and nest those projects in a master video project.

-jerry