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Extremely Slow Render Speed
I’ve been looking all over the Internet for advice and hopefully I’ll get some here.
Okay, everyone so I have a decently fast computer and a Sony Vegas .veg file I want to render to .mwv with better quality settings. The video clips are Mpeg-2 files that I converted to .wmv and I have reversed and sped up some of my clips in the video. I’ve rendered videos like this before but this one has an estimated time of 8 hours! I don’t know what to do! I heard that rendering on to a flash drive gives good results, can anyone confirm? I really want to keep my qualitly settings and affects, do are there any other remedies?
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4 Replies
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In the world of standard definition video, DV-AVI is the best format there is for editing.
Converting to (and editing with) any other format, especially WMV, is going to drastically increase your render times.The fastest render times will be obtained by rendering to a completely separate drive.
I find it very hard to believe that rendering to a flash drive is faster than the separate drive method.BTW, the “estimated time” is exactly that, an “estimate”.
You’ll notice the time go up and down depending on what is being rendered at that particular moment. -
I realize that .wmv is slow, but a flash drive would speed it up, or slow it down? I didn’t catch your drift, and if I were to add another drive, how much would that cost? s it easy to add to my computer?
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It is very easy to add a second harddisk to your PC (see the manual of your PC). Dependend on the capacity of the disk and were you live, this will cost you about 100 dollars/euros
Theo
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If you mean flash drive as in thumb, jump drives, then it will be slower. They’re good for storage but not for reading and writing video. If your computer has a USB2 port or a fire wire port, I suggest buying an external drive. I been using Lacie usb2 and firewire drives for years editing video without any problems. My last purchace was a 500 gig for 99$ at office Depot. Danny
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