Vegas can’t handle big projects

[John Rofrano]

[William Mims] “If I use the old method of editing ten minute “reels” and pre-rendering each, what happens when I want to marry them all together?”

Vegas Pro has the notion of “nested projects”. You can take any project and drop it into another project and it will behave like a single piece of media. I use this all the time when making training DVD’s. I work on each chapter as a separate project and then I drop all of the projects into a master project to assemble the final footage.You could work the same way as with your 10 minute reels.

[William Mims] ” Do I loose quality because once that is done it renders it again?”

If you use nested projects there is no loss in quality because you never render until the final render. If you do want to render each project separately, you could use a near-lossless code like CineForm and get no perceptible loss in quality over multiple renders.

[William Mims] “Should I master to Blu-Ray for more GBs space?”

If you want your final render to be HD, then yes I would use Blu-ray.

[William Mims] “For the record I hate DV Architect 5.0 (The quality on final DVD’s suck) Is there another product out there?”

DVD Architect has nothing to do with the quality. All of your rendering should be done with Vegas Pro and DVD Architect should only be used to assemble the assets into a DVD. If you don’t like the quality of DVD’s then no product is going to change that because DVDs are inherently 5x less quality than HD.

~jr

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[Mike Thomas]

Hi William, I’m the guy that started this original thread two years ago. Since the time of posting that thread I’ve since gained a lot of experience and knowledge and I would say to you that Vegas is great for editing all kinds of projects. Definitely edit in parts as John says and then simply bring all your “nested” parts together at the end when you’re ready to render. If you have more questions just ask!

-Mike

[Mike Thomas]

also…DVDA is confusing at first but nice once you have it figured out.