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  Multi Effects render question

  Posted by Don Cobble on March 26, 2013 at 6:15 pm

  I have a TV program I am trying to render (weekly), so I desire to streamline render process as efficient as possible. Meaning I have lower thirds, and a bug that are animated. And take forever to render.
  Is it possible to render those out to some type of alfa-background so that each week I am not having to render them along with the new program content – kinda of like – having them in a pre-rendered state?

  PC
  I7 2.8 Ghz 8GB Ram
  Win 7 Pro 64bit OS
  PNY Quadro 4000

  3-4 TB HD
  Vegas 10 64bit & Vegas 11 64Bit & Vegas 12 & Adobe Production Premium CS5.5.2 & Avid Media Composer 5.5

  Camera
  Sony EX1 shoot in 1920×1080 30P

  Larry Brewer replied 13 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Roger Bansemer

  March 27, 2013 at 12:29 pm

  Since no one has answered yet, I’ll give it a try.
  Render out your lower third as a mov file.
  Then drop it back on your timeline. Once you do that right click on your event and go to the media tab. Then check the “alpha channel” box to Premultiplied or one of those.

  Roger Bansemer
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  Larry Brewer

  April 4, 2013 at 3:20 pm

  While you can “pre render” these lower thirds to MOVs, it is not likely that will speed up renders significantly. The problem is most likely transparencies or soft drop shadows around your text. This will slow Vegas to a crawl.

  However, if your lower thirds are built in multiple layers.. Text over animated banner, with logo.. then perhaps pre rendering them to a single layer might be helpful. Especially if these lower thirds are reused from episode to episode.

  What really helps speed this up is to back off the soft fuzzy shadows, and feathered transparencies. Just experimented with a 10 sec ProType Titler lower third. It took 10 sec to render a RAM preview of just plain text. 25 sec with a small transparent drop shadow. and 1:40 with a drop shadow plus a big fat outer glow.

  Keep these things in mind when getting creative with lower thirds.

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