[Ellen Leggett]

Thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly.
I will try disabling re-sampling and try rendering with the source frame rate, 30fps, at 720p. I will let you know how it turns out second try 🙂
Thanks again.

[Ellen Leggett]

here are some screen shots of my render settings and custom settings

[Ellen Leggett]

Hi everyone, sorry for posting in an old forum, but I couldn’t find a better place for this (I am still very new to Creative Cow).
I have a rendering problem with Vegas Pro 13.
I have 1 hour 10 mins worth of GoPro footage that I wanted to render in Vegas at internet 720p bit rate of 8,000,000. I didn’t need beautiful quality because it was a B roll for a school project. I wanted to render the whole project in hopes that the compression would allow me to place the new video file into a separate Vegas project for editing and I could delete the original GoPro MP4’s to free up some space.

I started rendering one day and saw that it was going to take 5 hours, so i cancelled it, knowing that i had more use for my laptop in those 5 hours. So last night I set it to render, I asked my dad how I could make it small without sacrificing all of the quality and he said to reduce the bit rate and work with less than 1080p. I rendered at 24fps.

I set it to render overnight and changed my power settings so that the computer wold never go to sleep. It said it was going to take 8 hours, which is way long, but i thought, well, I’ll be asleep, now worries then.
I wake up this morning, expecting a fully rendered file, only to find that after 14+ hours of elapsed time it was only at 13%!!! and that it still had another 18 hours to go, which seemed too small considering 14 hours only got 13 % done.

I looked around and found this forum on CC, cancelled the render and checked my ram preview settings, which were only set to 200MB with 2958MB as max available. I have 4GB ram, and my computer is only barely there when it comes to system requirements on most of my software, but I’ve gotten used to little to no ram previews in AE, much better in vegas. I have an i7 core CPU on an Asus airbook.

Rendering has always been a pain, and I try to avoid doing it unnecessarily.

Could anyone tell me what going on? I don’t have much experience in vegas, are my render settings at fault? I have rendered on this computer before, but much smaller projects and never with render times as big.

sorry for the huge post. Your help is greatly appreciated. 🙂

[Ellen Leggett]

Thanks so much for the fast reply!
That’s a great idea, not overly complicated and it should work for pretty much anything I want to do with the effect. 🙂
Thanks Heaps!