Does Vegas offer any smart timeline render.. similar to AVID where you let it render within a region and only things that NEEDS to be rendered will be. From the manual it seems that I HAVE to render the ENTIRE timeline to a single file. This seems very wasteful in both storage space and time.
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How to play timeline out to firewire?
- Thread starter booggerg
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Re: How to play timeline out to firewire?
Hey booggreg - you've had some nice, helpful posts lately. Thanks! So I thought I'd try to give some back...
I'm not familiar with Avid but in Vegas I think you want to explore "pre-rendering" your video. The easiest way is to create a region (drag along the top of the time line to create a gray bar with yellow triangles at either end). Then right click on it and choose "Selectively prerender video". This is very helpful when one wants to see how a complex set of effects will play when rendered.
Now if you are seeking to output to tape via firewire, choose "tools" from the menu bar and then "print video to DV tape". Follow the dialogue box. The first thing Vegas will do is pre-render all those parts of your video where you've applied effects but leave unchanged video unrendered (thus saving space on your hard drive.) When pre-rendering is finished, assuming your camera is hooked up and ready to go, it will print a complete version of the movie back to your tape (again saving hard drive space.)
One last note: pre-renders are done to temp files so (1) you may want to target where these files are created depending on available space, etc. (to choose where the pre-renders go, go to "file">"properties" and select the "prerenderd files folder") and (2) eventually you'll want to clean 'em out to recapture that space. Now I think Vegas does this cleaning eventually on its own, but there is a way to manually do it. Check the help files as I am a little vague on that.
Hope that helps. 8)
Hey booggreg - you've had some nice, helpful posts lately. Thanks! So I thought I'd try to give some back...
I'm not familiar with Avid but in Vegas I think you want to explore "pre-rendering" your video. The easiest way is to create a region (drag along the top of the time line to create a gray bar with yellow triangles at either end). Then right click on it and choose "Selectively prerender video". This is very helpful when one wants to see how a complex set of effects will play when rendered.
Now if you are seeking to output to tape via firewire, choose "tools" from the menu bar and then "print video to DV tape". Follow the dialogue box. The first thing Vegas will do is pre-render all those parts of your video where you've applied effects but leave unchanged video unrendered (thus saving space on your hard drive.) When pre-rendering is finished, assuming your camera is hooked up and ready to go, it will print a complete version of the movie back to your tape (again saving hard drive space.)
One last note: pre-renders are done to temp files so (1) you may want to target where these files are created depending on available space, etc. (to choose where the pre-renders go, go to "file">"properties" and select the "prerenderd files folder") and (2) eventually you'll want to clean 'em out to recapture that space. Now I think Vegas does this cleaning eventually on its own, but there is a way to manually do it. Check the help files as I am a little vague on that.
Hope that helps. 8)
Z
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Re: How to play timeline out to firewire?
yes you can also select save to and get vegas to trim (or not trim) the used media into a folder with the project settings etc.. this is good for me because sometimes I have a 100 or so clips in my media pool that I have no idea if I used or not, and saving to a folder just the ones I used lets me delete all the crap I didnt use.
yes you can also select save to and get vegas to trim (or not trim) the used media into a folder with the project settings etc.. this is good for me because sometimes I have a 100 or so clips in my media pool that I have no idea if I used or not, and saving to a folder just the ones I used lets me delete all the crap I didnt use.