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Overwriting files rendering and final Quality
Hi folks:
I have rendered my files and they are now complete. When prompted to select rendering quality by Vegas I selected Good in some and Draft in others. Now that I have checked my final burned product I now want to go back to obtain the best quality possible. Historically I have then always deleted the original video file then selected BEST for choose rendering quality and rendered all over again.
Here is what I have noticed. I can also choose to simply OVERWRITE the original file after I have made my edits and changes in Vegas. This makes things much faster than the original rendering. What I want to know is that will this allow my BEST rendering to now take prescedent over the previous rendering quality selection? Remember I only used GOOD AND DRAFT originally.
Since I have been doubting if this is the case I have been going the slow route. I render a file in DRAFT OR GOOD quality. Then once I make changes to the project I totally delete that original file and RENDER again using BEST quality selection. Naturally this is like starting from scratch all over again and very very slow.
I wonder by experience if anyone has tried both methods and if so did simply overwriting the original draft/good file with BEST rendering quality prove to be as good as if you started rendering from scratch using the BEST selection.
A bit long-winded here but I wanted to be as descriptive as possible.
The answer here could potentially save me days on this project.
Thanks as always!
Don Kimball
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1 Reply
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Don, I have a quad core machine so I usually render in Best mode, mainly because most of my work is slide shows and they benefit from this mode.
If it’s mostly video, then Good is good enough.If you overwrite the original file, then yes, the newly rendered file will be whatever you told it to be (Draft, Good, etc.).
I do question your statement about things going faster if you do it this way though.
I just tried a short file (mpeg-2 render)that took about 4 min. in Draft mode but 10 min. in Best mode.
Are you rendering to a different format than this?
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