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  Vegas rendering quality

  Posted by Guy Hutcheson on September 16, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  I have a friend who works for a video production company and they charge $20,000 or so for “rendering”. What do they do that is worth that? Is their hardware superior to Vegas? They edit in Final Cut Pro, but I don’t know if they render in that program. Could you tell a difference between a vdieo from Vegas and one from a “pro” production house?

  Thanks,

  Guy

  Douglas Spotted eagle replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Douglas Spotted eagle

  September 16, 2008 at 2:18 pm

  As a general rule, no. You can’t tell the difference from one app’s output from another. The whole idea is to keep the bits as similar to the bits acquired from the camera. The camera is the most critical component (initially) in how an image appears.
  20K for rendering might be applicable if they’ve got a lot of compositing and render times keep a machine down. Vegas is the only editor that can have multiple copies running at once. Machine time is expensive, and operator costs aren’t cheap, not in a high end house.
  They might be using Final Cut Studio with Shake, Motion, etc, and render times for composited works can get really expensive.

  Douglas Spotted Eagle
  VASST

  Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
  Aerial Camera/Instructor
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  Guy Hutcheson

  September 16, 2008 at 3:16 pm

  Joseph,

  Thanks for the response. Please expand on the meaning of one of your references: “machine time is expensive”. Are they using a machine (as opposed to software) that is inherently superior to Vegas (I assume that’s why they use the “machines”). Also, I have most of your Vegas videos, but haven’t viewed all of them yet: which one best explains how to keep the bits as similar to the camera’s output as possible? I’m doing a doc that might be broadcast on TV and I want it to look primo (should I pay a high end house to render it?)

  Than you,
  Guy
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  Douglas Spotted eagle

  September 16, 2008 at 3:34 pm

  Machine time-time that a machine cannot be used, because it is occupied with rendering. Therefore, it’s an employee that’s more or less “on sick day” because you can’t do anything with it while it’s rendering.
  As far as a high end post house for rendering-only, that’ll get you no where. It’s the NLE….How the NLE preserves bits or reencodes them makes the difference, and Vegas is very good at this.

  Douglas Spotted Eagle
  VASST

  Certified Sony Vegas Trainer
  Aerial Camera/Instructor

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