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Speed up render?
Is there any way to speed up renders in Sony Vegas 6? I will be editing several hours of footage down to one hour and then making a DVD and need to be able to do this each day for a week. I’d love to use Vegas, but might have to use another system that renders faster or is real time.
Thanks,
Will -
7 Replies
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Rendering speed can be increased with a faster CPU, or network rendering using one or more additional comuters, but since you’re doing this each day, would it not be convenient to render overnight?
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You only have one hour of footage. If you don’t add tons of effects, the MPEG2 render should be done in an hour or so on modern machines. Add in a little time to prepare the DVD and you can get it burned probably within a couple of hours. It seems that editing down to one hour will be longer than rendering.
Edward Troxel
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Just remember that using different apps will mean a different workflow for each app. True realtime rendering is a problem on any app.
Computer cpu speed is directly linked to rendering speed.
One thing you can do which will speed up rendering is to make sure you don’t render to the same physical hard drive as the source footage.
Cheers
Jeremy
MJ Productions
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What format is your video source?
What are your computer specs?
What type of editing will you be doing? Straight cuts (some titles and transitions). Or will you be adding complex composites, or using those Magic Bullet looks (which take “forever” to render)?
When you render, are you going to mpeg from your Vegas timeline, or letting the DVD Authoring do the render? Or worse, rendering twice?
Based on how/what you edit, you might be able to tweak your workflow to get overall faster results…
Regards,
George -
We handle around six to nine hours each week for a weekly TV show and have never found the render thing a big issue. Our regular show encompasses around thirty plus graphics with opacity, slow-mo replays, additional music and VO’s and has around eight to twelve tracks and at fifty-six minutes duration will render in around seventy to eighty minutes on your average P4 3.0 to 3.2 Gig CPU. It is quicker on the Dual Core system but only by a number of minutes. That hour fifteen or so is a minor trade off and a small percentage in time relative to what is usually a three day edit. The speed, stability and reliability of Vegas to get a job out is by far the most important thing when having to meet regular weekly deadlines.
Chris Young
CYV Productions
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Our one-hour church service takes me about 45 minutes to edit and then it takes another 15 minutes to render the added titles/transitions for printing back to tape. So… essentially it’s real time!
When we first started 5 years ago, that same render process was several hours!
Edward Troxel
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I did a little testing with a handy overclocker called ClockGen. It allowed my cpu to overclock by half a Ghz and sped my renders up quite a bit. If your cpu is somewhat unstable it might be a bad idea but most intels will give you decent overclocking without messing with your motherboard. Be careful and watch your temperatures.
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