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Rendering 1 hour and 20 min video..time?
Hi, this is my first attempt and rendering a video that’s 1 hour and 20 minutes in length. It is our churches Christmas play I’m putting on DVD. I’ve used Vegas 5.0d to import and edit the project from DV camcorder, and now I want to render the final copy (for use in DVD Architect) as MPEG-2. I’m using a Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook with Pentium M 2GHz processor, 1GB of ram, and the project to be rendered is on a Maxtor 250GB external drive. While editing my computer has been very fast and efficient. I have also deleted any unnecessary video/audio from the project. The project is pieced together of 2 video tracks and 4 audio tracks used intermitently.
My computer has been rendering for 1.5 hours (3% complete) and the “time remaining” has max’d out at 23+ hours and restarted counting atleast 3 times. Is this normal?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Jason -
14 Replies
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Any 3D track motion turned on?
Video track headers set below 100%?
Lots of compositing or heavy filtering?These are just some of the things that will slow down your render. I would say that you should expect this to render in about 2.5 hours.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Hi….I’m at only 32% and have been rendering 11 hours.
Nope, no 3D, no heavy effects or anything. I’ve only taken bits and pieces from two video tracks and put them into one (like switching camera angles). Other than that it is simple crossfades between video clips and audio envelopes.
If I’m rendering as MPEG 2 for use in DVD Architect, could you recomend some more efficient settings? Maybe I’ve selected something incorrectly that is taking a long time. Maybe wrong preferences? I don’t know, but 2.5 hour is a lot better than the 36 hours this in going to take.
Thanks again,
Jason -
To really be able to diagnose possible causes, it would be helpful to see the actual VEG file (NOT the media – just the project file). The numbers you are giving are unrealisitically large unless there’s something else going on such as the things Gary mentioned.
Edward Troxel
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Firstly thanks for all of your willingness to help,
By “seeing” the VEG file do you mean it’s size (174 Kb)? If not could you please explain more? I am currently running no other applications with this computer,only the rendering. Though, I am rendering the MPEG-2 back to the Maxtor external drive that the project files are on.
Again thanks for all help!
Jason -
No. I mean posting the VEG file so that we can open it and see the actual project. That way we can determine if you might have some settings set incorrectly that is adding to your render time. As I said, we don’t need the media so we won’t see your actual final results.
Edward Troxel
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Thanks, I’m still a newbie using forums, how can I post my VEG file in a message (like this) for you to see?
Thanks,
Jason -
I’ve uploaded the VEG file to my website. This link should prompt you to download the file.
Thanks,
Jasonhttps://www.verticalmix.com/vegas/dvd.veg
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Tracks one and three are in 3D compositing mode. As I said before, that will slow your render quite a bit. Click on the green box next to the level slider and change the mode to Source alpha.
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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Thank you very much, I didn’t realize. Could you also expand on your “track headers” comment and recommend an MPEG-2 format? Is the default template okay?
Thanks,
Jason -
I should have written ‘track header level slider’.
The default DVDA video video stream default settings of 8,000,000 maxium bps will probably put your file size for the 1:19:16 project higher than can fit on a single-sided DVD (depending on your content).
Gary Kleiner
Learn Vegas and DVD Architect
http://www.VegasTrainingAndTools.com
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