Will Sony ever improve Vegas so that it does not lose its prerenders? PERIOD.

[Mike Kujbida]

The bottom line is that Sony has been asked repeatedly (since Vegas 3 or 4) to fix this issue and we’re still waiting 🙁

[Edward Troxel]

Beyond that, if someone DOES know, they won’t be able to comment on it. If someone comments on it, they don’t know! That’s the nature of the NDA agreements.

Edward Troxel

[Steven J casey]

Jason, this is the second time in two weeks you’ve posted this question and it’s obvious you’re frustrated over the issue. Maybe it’s just me but your tone is just shy of impolite towards the very people you’re approaching for help. Not trying to be offensive but you might try honey instead of vinegar next time.

sjc

[Jason Frey]

Thank you Ed. In that case, in your opinion and with your vast expanse of knowledge, is it possible for the Vegas software to be revised in this way? Or is it a hard task with re-writing code and such? Anything you have knowledge of would be helpful.

Thanks,

Jason Frey

[Edward Troxel]

I don’t know how much re-writing would be required but I’m sure there would be a non-trivial amount.

Edward Troxel

[Rob Mack]

It seems to me that some of the problem is in the perception of what prerenders do. They aren’t prerenders of things on the timeline, they’re prerenders of the timeline as a whole.

As an example, if I apply mediaFX to a clip and then do a prerender, it’s not the clip that was rerendered, it’s the timeline. So if I overlap another clip with this one then the prerender is no longer valid.

I’d suggest two things for Vegas:
1. ability to prerender individual clips on the timeline. Change the tint of a prerendered clip
2. A visible “Prerender Track” at the top of the timeline – say about 5 PX high. Have it respond to ripple edits just like everything else, but not make it directly editable.

The reason to display prerenders like this is to make it more apparent what is going on with the prerenders and why they do and do not presist. I think that viewing the prerenders like this would be more instructive to users and suggest new ways of dealing with prerenders to the programmers.

Rob Mack

[Sada]

Are you stalking the guy—He sounds very civil to me.

[Rob Mack]

I think the issue was that, given where he’s asking the question, it’s kind of a waste of effort and poor strategy.

No one here can answer it and putting an all-caps “Period” in the question seems like he’s just trying to use force. Pissing into the wind, really, because no amount of force will get the question answered, and certainly not in a user forum.

Jason should do something productive. Go to the Sony site and make a product suggestion. That’s what I just did.

Rob Mack

[Steven J casey]

No stalking, but as someone else mentioned, putting specific words in caps tends to present a certain attitude to the post. The second post was a copy of the first, including the caps, so it caught my attention. I merely made a suggestion that this may not be the best way to get answers in a public forum such as this.