Rendering more than one project?

[Laszlo Kovacs]

Hi,

I guess you mean you have 5 instances of Vegas open, and all of them are rendering?
If you do so, you can be sure there’s no problem with it. I did it many times.
Note, that the CPU power is divided between instances of Vegas, so one project’s render time will take at least five times as it would normal.
However, rendering that 5 projects in series (one after one) would took approximately the same time.

So, in practice you don’t loose anything.

Just a trick: you can lower the priority of a rendering Vegas with the task manager below normal. Doing so ensures, your system stays responsible, otherwise you may wait few seconds after a mouseclick…
And if you do this, do with all the rendering instances, otherwise those with normal priority will take ALL the cpu from the “below normal” tasks.

Hope I could help.

Regards

K.L.

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[Robert Adam]

thankyou so much thats really given me peace of mind that im not causing issues by doing this & thanks for the tip thats awesome!
i find it so frustrating when i’m rendering & trying to do other thing like simply look at folders/rearrange & i gotta wait ten seconds for the mouse click to catch up

thanks again

[Laszlo Kovacs]

You’re welcome :)))

If you decrease the rendering instances priority, you can even edit with another while it does the render. Of course in this case the rendertime may get inpredictable long.

Regards

K.L.

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[John Rofrano]

It should be pointed out that while on paper it seems that rendering 5 projects at the same should be no faster or slower than rendering 5 projects in a row, that only takes into account CPU usage. By rendering 5 at the same time you will be sharing you memory across 5 processes which means each process will have only 1/5th the memory. This could significantly slow down your rendering if any project needs more that 1/5th of your system memory. Just something to consider.

~jr

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