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Rendering in HD taking up WAY too much memory in Sony Vegas 9.0
Ok, When I go to render only 18 seconds of a 5-layer video on Sony Vegas in HD, it takes over 20 minutes & is 125 MB.
I’ve made another video in which I rendered it in the exact same length & it had nearly 20 layers & it only took around 5-7 minutes & is only 27 MB in HD.
I plan to upload this video to youtube, but with the full version taking over 2 hours to render & around 433 MB, it will take up to 12 hours according to the status bar when uploading.
I’ve been trying all different sorts of techiniques to help with this such as re-doing the video & not rendering it in HD.
It really didn’t take much less time to render it in another way. I really want it in HD & to take up a logical amount of memory. There is no reason for it to take up so much memory & so much rendering time when it only has 5 layers & not too many effects.
Sorry, this is probably really hard to understand, I tried to explain as well as I could, but I’m sick of my Vegas Videos taking up so much memory that I can’t even watch them because it freezes during playback. Other videos with tons of other effects/layers take only a fraction of the rendering time & memory. I’m wondering if it is something I did wrong when opening the program.. I’m out of ideas & desperate for help. I really want HD to work properly.
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What are you doing different in this project that you did not do in the projects that render quickly? Are you using a different type of source media? It could be as simple as you changed the track composite to something less than 100% and it is now compositing tracks while rendering. Check the Level slider in the video track header for all tracks and make sure it is at 100%.
~jr
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For the record, the number of “layers” (in Vegas, they’re called tracks) and effects in the project has absolutely no effect whatsoever on the size of the rendered file. (The number and type of effects, however, will affect how long the project takes to render — the more you ask Vegas to change the video, the long it has to work. And if that video is HD, then you’ll have to expect it to work even longer.)
There are exactly two factors used to determine the size of the rendered file: The bitrate (the number of bits that you allow Vegas to use to encode each second of video) and the length (how many seconds that video is).
Do a search of Youtube for “render hd youtube Vegas” to find some tutorials on, well, rendering HD for Youtube using Vegas. Those should give you an idea of what bitrate and other settings you should be using to get decent quality but small(er) file size.
Rob
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Hi Rob.
>>Do a search of Youtube for “render hd youtube Vegas” to find some tutorials on, well, rendering HD for Youtube using Vegas. Those should give you an idea of what bitrate and other settings you should be using to get decent quality but small(er) file size.
Won’t you please just share with us all what the best bitrate is for Vegas HD uploads to YouTube is, since you already know? It would sure save us a lot of footwork ( x however many readers….)
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Who said I already know? 😉 As a matter of fact, I’ve never rendered HD for Youtube.
Besides which, there is no One True Way. Different methods work better for different material. That’s why I gave a suggestion that will let Courtney (and anyone else) learn what those methods are and decide for herself which are suitable for her project(s).
Rob
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