Stephen Mann
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Apply the effects to the media. Then the f/x applies to all events made from this media.
Steve Mann
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The veg file is basically a collection of pointers to media and scripts describing the editing steps you made so far. If the veg file is truly bad, then it wouldn’t load on another system either. The most common problem with startup problems is a corrupt media file, followed with too little RAM. Not having enough scratch disk (temp folder) will do the same thing.
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I don’t think this will help with the current problem, but at the end of the day during a long edit project, I always do a then a save-as and timestamp the filename. This way I can never lose more than a days work.
If you want to send me your veg file, I can see if it loads here. There won’t be any media, of course, but unless you are using plugins that I don’t have, the veg file should load OK.
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I use a Presonus Firepod (8-channel preamp with Firewire output) on an old laptop running Vegas 10.
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Rename the menus in DVDA so that they aren’t all named “Menu”. This will make it clear where you go with the End Action option.
Note that the End Action applies to the media – what happens when you reach the end of the media.
In your second question, I assume that you are using a template to make your menus. (FYI, I make all my menus in Photoshop). The solution could be as simple as deleting the button.
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[Curt Charles] “It crashes enough without interruption. “
Could it be because it’s also your bill-paying PC, e-mail PC, still editing PC, etc.? I can count the number of Vegas crashes on my dedicated editing PC on one hand – since Version 3.
[Curt Charles] “I guess the moral of the story here is don’t trust the estimate until the project is 30% rendered.”
It’s impossible to estimate time to compress without actually compressing the media. The time to compress a group of frames depends mostly on how much changed from frame to frame. Time to render is a simple formula because every frame takes the same amount of time to render. But you aren’t rendering, you are encoding. (One of my nits with Sony is that they incorrectly confuse encoding and rendering).
[Curt Charles] “Would a high-power graphics card speed up the rotate/zoom?”
Probably not. At least not enough to make a significant difference. Raw processing power is what you need. Followed by as much RAM as your motherboard will support.
Turning off your Virus protection may speed up the “Render As” time. Turning off indexing on your editing HDD would help some. I haven’t experimented with this yet, but using an SSD for your temp files (you set the location of temp files in the config menu) may help. You can try setting the temp directory that Vegas uses to a hard disk you aren’t using for editing. Use the task manager to kill any background processes that you don’t need could help.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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[Curt Charles] “Vegas really needs “suspend” and “resume” functions during rendering; at least that would allow checking e-mail.”
I agree, but not for the same reasons. I don’t know why you can’t read emails while Vegas is encoding your project, I do it all the time. OH WAIT – I don’t have email on my editing PC, I use another PC that is connected to the web.
Snide remark aside – seriously, if you plan to do a lot of video work, get a dedicated PC for that. (Or buy a cheap, dual-core PC for your web and email use). But, I still don’t see why you can’t do other tasks while encoding (the menu item says “rendering”, but unless you are making uncompressed AVI files, you are encoding).
If I read your original post correctly, you are using an i7 PC, so it should multitask with no problem. RAID is overkill and you really don’t need it (unless you are encoding 4K uncompressed video, but that would put you into the elite minority). You would get much, much more performance improvement by using a separate hard drive for your video materials.
You can also sacrifice speed for faster multi-task use by going through the Task Manager to lower the priority of Vegas. Occasionally, I will set the priority to “realtime” to help really long encodes, but while it’s not really “realtime” because the program still goes to Windows O/S for housekeeping, but other programs will appear to be hung. It might drop a ten hour encode to 9.5 hours.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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All of the F/X you applied will require every pixel on every frame to be re-encoded. Especially the zoom and rotate. You didn’t say what the length of your project is, but the render time looks about right.
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In the rendertest2010 database that I ran on the Sony Vegas forum, the fastest renders were on Mac Pros running on Boot Camp.
https://www.mmdv.com/sonyvegas/rendertest/index.php
The password is “vegasuser”.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
