[Ernesto Marani]

Thank you for your answer.
They said they have a wide screen.
They said I should render the project as 16:9 SD instead of HD (they don’t use Vegas, I do. They use Edius).
I don’t know how to translate their direction and apply it in Vegas. I render as Architect/Widescreen/PAL
Any ideas?

[Ernesto Marani]

Are your project files on a separate drive and are oyu rendering to that drive or drive C?

I always used to work on my C hard disk drive. And render times were pretty good.

After the reformat/reinstall I began having all media and the Vegas projects on an external hard drive, 1TB.
And I asked Vegas to save the rendered file also in this external drive. And then all the problems I described happened.

A couple of hours ago I tried moving all media and projects to C:. And re-rendered the file, PERFECT. No problems, rendered perfectly, no extra time.

So does this mean I cannot work directly on the external drive?
And pls another question related to rendering: While rendering, can I open Vegas again in a new window, and work in another project? Will this make the ongoing rendering slower?

My PC Specs
Intel Core2 Quad
4 GB RAM
Nvidia GeForce Series 7
500 GB internal HD, (270 presently free)

Regarding your question about what other programs were installed after Vegas:
Power Director 6
Nero 6
Open Office

Thanks a lot

[Ernesto Marani]

Hi Mike,

A couple of days ago I reformatted my PC and reinstalled Windows XP, Sp3. Then I reinstalled Vegas Pro 9.0 and some other programs, most of which were installed also before the reformat. Everything is working fine, except for the rendering time in Vegas. When I render, it takes 2 to 3 times more than before. And in two days I had 2 render errors (one of them after 6 hours rendering). Prior to reformatting I never had errors in rendering.

I thought a fresh copy of Windows will make my renders faster…I am probably missing something.

I’ll appreciate your help with this
Thank you
Ernesto

[Ernesto Marani]

Hi everybody,
In my question I said the audio stutters but the video reproduces fine.
I was wrong: video also stutters, as if one was jumping frames.
And all this causes of course a sync problem between video and audio.
In any case, when I render the project, THERE IS NO STUTTER AT ALL, and video and audio are perfectly synchronized.

Thanks
Ernesto

[Ernesto Marani]

It worked Mike, thank you very much

[Ernesto Marani]

Dear Mike,

I did as you suggested:
If your total video is under 75 min. long, click the Custom, select Best in the Video rendering quality box, clcik the Video tab, select Constant Bit Rate, change this value to 8,000,000 and click OK.
This takes care of the video.
and I thank you so much, it worked great.

Now I have a project which is 93 minutes long, weighing 5.1GB and DVD Architect says it’s too large (I have used the same parameters as above). I reduced the Bit Rate in Architect down to 4000, and still says it’s too large. Is there anything I can do in Architect to avoid rendering all over again? If not, would you please kindly suggest how to render it? Will quality decrease seriously while changing the settings?

Thanks a lot again,
Ernesto

[Ernesto Marani]

Mike, I just know the converter uses the H264 codec when encoding to flv

[Ernesto Marani]

OK, thank you anyway!

Still regarding Vegas: Is there a way to export as 480×270, 16:9? (That´s the format I need to put into the flv compressor)

[Ernesto Marani]

Hi Mike,
First of all, thanks so much for helping me with the format, I did the MPEG-2 and it worked smoothly into DVD Architect producing a very nice DVD (2 DVD´s of 1 hour each, so I could get the quality as per your recommendation)!

This week I was requested to transform the output into .flv so it can be uploaded to a website. They requested it to be around 700 mb. Now, the original MPEG-2 in Vegas is around 5 GB, and using the erightsoft´s Super converter it got compressed into 2 GB. Still very large. Is there a way in Vegas that I can render the same file so it´s not so big, and that way, once I compress it I got it around 700 mb?

Thanks a lot
Ernesto

[Ernesto Marani]

Hi Mike,

This continues my previous post on “chroma key problem”.
Now I see that I can’t also activate the “tv simulator” effect.
This sounds like a general problem with effects.
Looks like I accidentally disabled something, what do you think?
Thanks