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Rendering as New Track
Though I do not consider Vegas Movie Studio’s 4 video track limit to be all that limiting, at times it would be nice to have additional tracks. One workaround I find is to use the Render as New Track function to combine a section of multiple tracks into a single video file. I suppose this feature comes from Vegas’ audio heritage where track bouncing is a common technique.
I realize there may be workflow issues in combining video tracks in a complex project, but I am wondering how video track bouncing may affect the video quality of the final output. For example, is the “new track” re-rendered in the final output? Is there a generational loss in quality incurred by doing this?
As an example, let’s say I render an SD video track with a title overlay track into a single avi. I then delete the original two tracks, add the newly rendered avi to the timeline, use the remaining three tracks for additional titles, effects, and edits, then render the whole thing to an mpg for burning to DVD. Has the “rendered as new” track adversely affected the quality of the final output?
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The DV codec in Vegas is one of the best out there so I wouldn’t worry about it. The only time things get recompressed is if you’re doing an effect of any kind and then it’s only the transition that is affected.
If you’re concerned about it (and not worried about the extra render time), do your new track renders in Best mode.
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