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Sony Vegas Pro User: Two of my most important questions
Would love to hear from John Rofrano, but will accept advice from anyone knowledgeable. I have been a Sony Vegas Studio/Pro user for a number of years and have always wanted an expert opinion on two fronts:
1) In terms of workflow, is an editor pretty much left to create a new project either by building out a timeline full of events/clips/etc. (I seem to create long duration projects – 1 to 2 hrs in length) with a subsequent long render of said timeline, OR by creating smaller pieces/segments of that project, perhaps pre-rendering those small chunks to MPEG2 and then bringing all the individual pieces back together in one timeline that will render quickly due to the pre-rendered parts? Which method do most expert editors prefer? Are there advantages/disadvantages? In the past I have saved smaller chunks as separate Vegas projects and then cut/paste to combine them all in one timeline to render, so as to only encode once from timeline to MPEG2.
2) Now that I want to break into creating more HD Blu-ray projects, if my typical past projects have been NTSC Widescreen 720×480 (all my footage comes from my Sony camera at 29.97 1080i), should I start future projects at the HD 1080-60i Blu-ray project setting, create my video, and then if I need my former Widescreen 720×480 format, I just change the project settings in Vegas or perhaps even in DVDA without having to worry about any resizing issues?
Thanks so much for your advice!
John Hughes (haha I know…with a last name like that you have to be in the industry) -
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I use to give our PBS 1/2 hour programs which were made into HDCam master tapes to the people who did that in three rendered parts. I preferred doing that because I feel it necessary to watch any final render carefully after rendered and many times after spending almost a half hour watching the program a frame or two needed changing which meant a re-render and then watching again.
Breaking it into several parts saved me from watching entire shows over and over and over.Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com
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I like to break things up for the reason’s that Roger mentioned. Once a piece is done, you render it, check it, forget about it. I will always create motion graphics for openings etc. in a separate project and render those and drop them into the main project. This keeps the intense rendering to a minimum. As Roger said, when you’re on deadline, there is no time to wait for hours for a render only to find you have a jump cut or transition that looks bad and needs re-rendering.
As for going from Blu-ray to DVD, you don’t need to change anything in your Vegas project to go from Blu-ray to DVD. Just render your HD project to a DVD template. Use the option to stretch and not letterbox to match the difference in widescreen aspects. Alternately, in DVD Architect you can just change the project settings from Blu-ray to DVD and have it prepare and burn the DVD version for you.
~jr
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