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Nesting
Hey Guys,
Need a little help, I am working a DVD for a musical vocal group. We did about 20 numbers with a live shoot AND multiple day takes. I have each number edited with anywhere from 10-30 video tracks per piece. I need to lay it out on a new timeline for the entire DVD flow. In the past I have rendered out each number and laid it on a new Vegas project. I have worked with nesting for smaller projects, but I am not sure if 20 numbers with that many video tracks will work well or not. I am not sure how nesting actually works so that would be part of my not knowing to nest or not.
Thanks for your help in advance. BTW, I don’t need any ideas in my workflow PRIOR to this stage…thanks a bunch!
Scott
Scott Francis
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I don’t think there’s any reason why nesting wouldn’t work. It may take a while to load the nested project initially when you put it on your timeline since Vegas basically has to render the whole thing into the project, but once that’s done you can treat it like any other video and audio event. You could have 100 video tracks and it wouldn’t make a difference because it’s all one track when nested.
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What about rendering time from the project using nested clips? I have quite a few FX’s in each number, pan/crop, noise reduction, color grading and such…will any of this matter at the final render?
Thanks for your input!!!
Scott Francis
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Try it out and see how much progress it makes, you can always close it. But it could take a few minutes or more. I’ve nested projects with a handful of video tracks, effects, and audio, but the videos were probably no more than five minutes, and I don’t think it took longer than that to render them in Vegas.
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I can’t really “try it out” this is for an client and due date looms, don’t have “try it” time…if you know what I mean…but thanks for your input!
Scott Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions -
I mean just try it for a minute, you’ll see the progress bar. If it barely cracks 2% after a minute, you can estimate how long it will take.
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Not to hijack the thread or anything, but nesting projects appears to create it’s own problem over time. After having a nesting problem using ToasterEdit on a Newtek Video Toaster system at our local television station (seemingly black video after final rendering of projects nested within one another), I was told by Newtek Support that after several nested projects, that you need to go into the AppData folder and delete pre-render files, because the system gets confused as to what file to use in the final render. I followed his instructions and it stopped the problem. I was told this will also stop the same problem from occurring within other NLE’s.
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Vegas has no problems with multiple nested projects – I do it frequently. Nesting makes no difference on encoding time because everything on the timeline is an event. An event on the timeline is a pointer to the media. Nested Vegas projects are just more pointers to media.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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