Can I output with 0 compression, and then stitch togethor in vegas?

[lucidz]

I have a movie that has say 10 sections.

Can I render those sections individually, then drop them on a timeline in vegas and simply render them togethor?

What output should I use? Full avi?

Will I encounter any problems doing this?

I'm thinking about working on one scene, finishing it, and having another computer start rendering that scene while I work on the next scene, and so on.

Is this doable?

 

[Sol M.]

If your source media is DV with no effects/post-processing (e.g. cuts only), then you can render out to DV AVI with no loss in quality. Otherwise, rendering to uncompresesd AVI (large file sizes) or a codec that uses lossless compression (smaller filesizes, but lower performance) is the only way not to lose quality.

Also, if you're using Vegas 6, you could also create a separate project file for each segment and then nest them all in a new project. This way, you would not have to render anything until your final render.

 

[donatello]

you could render out as windows AVI using the NTSC DV template .. then click custom - video - under video format choose the sony YUV codec ( uncompressed 4:2:2) ...

 

[Norm Sanders]

Hmm ... never heard of that one ... I'll have to check it out. I've always gone with the first option for AVI, the uncompresed one. Is there a difference?

For our current project, I needed to keep rendering out different files, in one case I had to render the SAME file over four times, as each time had layers of FX that had to be rendered before I could move onto the next step. For that, I exported out to a PNG image sequence ... since it's supposed to be a lossless file, I imagine that I never rec'd any loss during the process ... in fact, when I compared the fourth generation PNG with the original image, I couldn't visibly see any loss.

 

[Spot]

The YUV format Donatello mentions is an uncompressed file format, and will not lose any quality. Your files will be much larger, your playback will be much slower (unless you've got a large, fast RAID) but your quality will not suffer.