10 hour render time?!?!

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kyozoku

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I just finished cutting my 10-minute project, and now I want to render it to MPEG-2 so I can burn it with DVD Architect. And Vegas tells me it's going to take 10 hours!

I shot it at 1080-24pa with the HVX-200 and applied some Magic Bullet Looks post to the footage.

Does this sound right to anyone? Or should I be making changes to get a more reasonable render time?
 
A common mistake I've made with similar results is to unintentionally leave video or audio scraps in the timeline, but out of view. For example, having video clips that weren't used in the edit (which was assembled on the far left) left in the far right of the timeline, out of view.

I hope that makes sense. Basically, I'd stop the render and check my timeline to make sure there aren't any long clips out of view that I meant to delete. I make this mistake every now and then and unexpectedly long render times are usually a dead giveaway.

All that said, I haven't edited high definition video, I don't know your normal rendering time but I know on my computer rendering standard definition 32 bit edits with Magic Bullet Looks color correction can lead to long render times. I've had a 5 minute video take two hours to render just because of excessive use of Magic Bullet and the 32 bit editing.

Hope that helps. Lemme know if any of that was confusing...
 
kyozoku said:
I just finished cutting my 10-minute project, and now I want to render it to MPEG-2 so I can burn it with DVD Architect. And Vegas tells me it's going to take 10 hours!

I shot it at 1080-24pa with the HVX-200 and applied some Magic Bullet Looks post to the footage.

Does this sound right to anyone? Or should I be making changes to get a more reasonable render time?
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Sounds about right. Vegas is slow as molasses. Adding Magic Bullet effects makes it a lot worse. Try using color curves to achieve the look; it will probably render a hell of a lot faster.
 
The amount of time it takes to render has no relationship to the final output file size. The final size is determined exclusively by the bitrate multiplied by the length of the video. If you used a constant bitrate of 8Mbits, then 10 minutes would be around 600 megabytes.
 
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