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title treatments taking a long time to render???
You will hopefully forgive my ignorance in this matter.
Really exciting project I am working on but with a deadline fast aproaching there is something that is starting to concern me.
I have these title treatments that come up and there are about 30 in all. I have them as separate vegas files that I drop into my timeline where I need them. This sounds fine and dandy but when I output the final video with these title treatments they take 10-15 minutes each to render.
The layers are pretty simple with just 4 separate photoshop documents that are one layer each. Then a tiff that moves underneith to give the project some motion.
Top PSD is just a logo with no effects.
2nd I am using the vegas lights rays to give it some slight movement
Third is a layer set to burn
4th is a cut
5th is a photo which is just about HD quality.
I probably need to render these out as some sort of video file that I can just lay into my project but I am not sure how that is done exactly. Yes I know it’s probably some vegas 101 trick but I have never done it that way.
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My first question would be How long does it take to render it as a standalone file? That answer could help determine if what you’re seeing is simply how long it takes.
[Nathan Smith] “I probably need to render these out as some sort of video file that I can just lay into my project but I am not sure how that is done exactly.”
Render to an uncompressed AVI and make sure you check the “Include Alpha Channel” box. Then you can just drop that newly rendered file anywhere on the timeline instead of the other project.
Edward Troxel
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Since you say “PSD” are any of the source files .tif?
PSD takes a while to decode anyway. Can you not flatten them, or at the least, convert the layers to PNG? Separate png, tga, or jpg layers will convert more quickly.
Similar question for the 5th layer. Stills that are larger than 2k in either dimension, can really bring Vegas to its knees. Vegas Pro 8 simply blows when it comes to large still files. You may look at reducing the size there.
Then there is the option of simply rendering each of the 30 to an uncompressed file with alpha; this will probably be faster for the first, uncompressed render, but will be slower in the second, delivery render.Douglas Spotted Eagle
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I tried this today and it didn’t work right. I just don’t think I understand alpha chanels that well. I think I should try converting the files to PNG like you guys mentioned tomorrow. I will also lower the image size. THey are 6 megs each but I can make them slightly smaller.
Thanks
Ordering Vegas 8 this week. Can’t wait to try the new titling part of it.
true to the tri!
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