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Feature film render–Trouble
I’m a new filmmaker and I need some help here. I seem to have painted myself into a corner with the way I’ve been saving my feature film scenes over the past months in Vegas. My movie is done and I’m ready to render. The problem is that I don’t have a master timeline only individual scenes. What do I do? I decided to render the individual scenes then link them all together in DVD Architect hoping that I could burn the DVD and Architect would simply view the individually “linked” clips as a whole. That almost worked. As I watch the movie there is a short pause at each of the scenes ends. So…I could take all my individually rendered mpeg-2 scenes, line them all up on the Vega timeline and render them again into one clip instead of 50. But won’t rendering them a second time like that reduce the quality of the final picture? So now I’m thinking that I need to render each scene as an uncompressed .mov, then line up all the uncompressed clips on the Vegas timeline and render them all together into the MPEG-2 that I need. Will this fix my problem?? I thought I would ask before trying as rendering all the clips into an uncompressed .mov will undoubtedly take many many hours to do. Any help would be most appreciated! BTW, what is the correct way to save as I edit a feature film so as not to have this problem next time? Someone mentioned that there’s a way to edit individual scenes which will automatically save onto a master timeline. Is this what I need to look into?? Thanks in advance for the help.
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If you have Vegas Pro you can just drop all of your scene project files into a new master project (as nested projects) and render them all out as one long MPEG2 file. Vegas Pro will treat the .veg files as any other media.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thank you so much John! So simple. I have a lot to learn. Your videos are very helpful, btw.
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Thank you. This is how I work. Even doing training DVD’s I’ll make each chapter a separate project and then combine them into a master project to assemble the DVD. It’s a very smooth workflow.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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