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  Vegas workflow / render question…

  Posted by Dan Monroe on February 21, 2012 at 7:35 pm

  I am producing a 90 minute feature in Vegas 10 Pro. My target format is Blu-Ray.

  I want to render each individual scene of the film one at a time, then eventually RE-assemble each rendered scene into a NEW timeline for the final rendering of the entire movie.

  Yes, I know I’m rendering twice this way… but changing one part of one scene will require re-rendering the WHOLE 90 minute feature- this just takes way too long.

  QUESTION: What is the best initial render format for each scene? It obviously has to be a container that I can re-import into my final timeline. Avi? M2t? Mp4?

  Thank all…
  Dan

  Stephen Mann replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Tyson Onaga

  February 21, 2012 at 8:19 pm

  I don’t think you can put an m2t back into the Vegas timeline.

  If you need an alpha channel, then you must use one of:
  a. avi, uncompressed
  b. mov, animation
  c. mov, png <— this one seems to take a bloody long time to render

  If you don’t need an alpha channel, then I have found
  d. mov, Photo JPEG

  to work quite nicely at 1920×1080.

  If you have the storage space of the Enterprise-D, avi should work just fine too.
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  Dan Monroe

  February 21, 2012 at 9:16 pm

  Hi and thanks!

  No, I don’t need an alpha channel- and I’m quickly discovering that MOV files (jpeg and animation) take FOREVER to encode.

  There has to be another answer- what about Cineform avi? I run all my raw mov files through Cineform Neoscene to begin with, but would need to purchase the upgrade to encode with Cineform.

  Any thoughts on this?
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  Stephen Mann

  February 22, 2012 at 5:39 am

  [Dan Monroe] “I want to render each individual scene of the film one at a time,”

  Have you considered a different approach? Embedded VEG files. Edit each scene in its own project (veg file), then your final project consists of a bunch of veg files on the timeline.

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com
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  Dan Monroe

  February 22, 2012 at 6:43 am

  Hi Steve…

  yes, I have tried it- again, the problem is, if I do it that way on a 95 minute feature then final render will take way too long.

  I recently discovered that Vegas 10 Pro will allow the import of m2t files… so if I render each scene as an m2t file- basically blu ray compliant – then rendering a 2nd time to blu ray shows little if no quality loss.

  Dan
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  Stephen Mann

  February 22, 2012 at 1:41 pm

  You don’t “render” M2T, you encode it, notwithstanding that Vegas put the encoding processes into the “Render As” menu.

  In the aggregate, using the embedded veg files would take less time. And you are only encoding the final file once.

  Steve Mann
  MannMade Digital Video
  http://www.mmdv.com

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