Vegas7 rendering

[hmobley]

I have a short 11 minute video set on my timeline, vegas 7, and have rendered a few different ways, I am wondering if the avi clips making up the timeline have suffered at all because of being rendered a few times. Cineform HDV Neo was used. Each successive dvd looks like it might have.

[David Jimerson]

Interframe encoding like HDV is far more susceptible to generational loss than intraframe, like DV.

[hmobley]

So,I have hdv on the timeline, and I want hdv on the dvd, using Sony Architech, I don't think I am actually going to get hd. If normally its rendered out with vegas ntsc dvd I wondering how much is lost. In the last two renders I did them as hdv and put them into sony architech. the first one was good, I took that one, added more clips to it, still a sony veg file, then rendered that, second one looked like crap. Bottom line I guess I am limited using ehat I have without going to a hd deck etc. right!

[David Jimerson]

If you render from your original clips, going to DVD will be fine. It's only if you render the clips 2-3 times or more, and THEN render for DVD, when you'll start to see problems.