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Render question
I am using Vegas 5. I am working on a simple project where I have captured a video from VHS to the hard drive and have simply added a fade in and a fade out. The video is a total of 1 hour and 19 minutes. When I rendered out to MPEG2/DVD Architect NTSC video stream, the render took nearly 5 hours. I have done weddings before with many transitions and effects that were 1 and a half hours long and render times were more like 3 to 3 and a half hours. This computer is used only for video editing, using Vegas and DVDA. The only recent change I made was taking the screen resolution from 1024X768 pixels to 1280X1024 pixels. Could this change have caused the long render time?
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4 Replies
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Changing the screen resolution should not make any impact on your render time at all.
What I’d wonder about is if when you created the fade in/out, you may have accidentally changed the opacity level of the video. This *would/could* account for the lengthy render time.
On a reasonably fast machine, the render shouldn’t have been much more than real time, and on a fast machine, could have approached a little more than half of real time. -
I checked, the opacity is 100%. This just seems so strange that this render would take so long. I have another VHS to DVD project which is about the same length. I am going to shut down the computer and start it up again before I start the next render, to see if that fixes the problem. I’ll let you know.
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check ALL of your video TRACKS, and see if they are set to 100% and if the “track motion” is the way you intend for each track. Also, did you use the Color Corrector filter?
Charlie
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More info….I did another render of video that was captured from a VHS tape. The video capture was done with a “pass through” from VHS player through my Sony VX2100 camera to the hard drive. This video was 1 hour and 20 minutes long. I simply loaded the entire video onto the time line and added a fade-in and a fade-out. This render also took about 4 and a half hours. I am using Vegas 5, a Pentium 4 3.00 GHz computer with 1 GB of RAM. All Windows updates are current. I’ve checked both videos and have found no problems with opacity or other issues. I have 4 software programs installed on this particular computer…Vegas 5, DVDA2, Nero, and Norton AV. When rendering I always shut down my wireless connection and disable Norton Auto Protect. Any other ideas why my render times seem to be increasing?
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