Vegas Movie Studio 10 - best uncompressed format

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pmk396

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Hi all,
Just a quick question for you. What is the best uncompressed format to use if I was to render a project out with the intention of re-importing it back into Vegas for further editing?

I have been using uncompressed .mov but I was wondering if any of you have other suggestions?
 
What you need is compressed lossless. Basically identical to uncompressed but much faster and smaller size. Try UT Video. And please stay away from MOV and anything Quicktime.
 
Why are you rendering uncompressed?
The usual method is to save your project and then open it when needed for further editing.

Mike
 
Subhadip said:
What you need is compressed lossless. Basically identical to uncompressed but much faster and smaller size. Try UT Video. And please stay away from MOV and anything Quicktime.
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I use Avid DNxHD which outputs a .mov file and it's working great for me
 
rs170a said:
Why are you rendering uncompressed?
The usual method is to save your project and then open it when needed for further editing.

Mike
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Thanks for the reply Mike. Basically the reason that I am rendering uncompressed because I am currently editing a short film that filmed. The entire project would be about 25 minutes when fully edited but I decided to break each scene up into it's own individual Vegas project so I can fine tune the editing and concentrate on each scene at a time without being distracted on other scenes that might need tweaking up on the timeline. Once I had each scene edited and ready to render, my intention was to re-import each edited scene onto like a master project timeline which would be the final project when fully rendered. I also planned to use the master timeline for importing the music and the overall touches to the final outcome of the project.
 
Subhadip said:
What you need is compressed lossless. Basically identical to uncompressed but much faster and smaller size. Try UT Video. And please stay away from MOV and anything Quicktime.
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Hi Subhadip,
Thanks for the reply. When you say stay away from MOV and Quicktime, why? What's the problem with these? To explain things better, I am currently working on a short film that I shot and the format in which the camera shot the footage is MOV format (nothing that I can do about that). I have only been using Vegas Movie Studio for the past few months and basically I'm new to the whole editing process. I decided to divide each scene up into it's own Vegas project (each scene varying in length between 1 minute to 6 minutes) so I can fine edit and concentrate whole on each scene without being distracted by other scenes on the timeline that might need touching up. Once each scene is fine tweaked, I intended to render each out and re-import them all back into Vegas on like a master timeline that will be the ultimate outcome of the project once I added music and final touches to it.
 
You can import the Vegas project for each scene into a master project... it just loads up the Vegas project and imbeds it. If you change the project for one scene, those changes show up in your master project.
 
strangways said:
You can import the Vegas project for each scene into a master project... it just loads up the Vegas project and imbeds it. If you change the project for one scene, those changes show up in your master project.
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What you're referring to is called nesting and this isn't an option in Movie Studio which the OP is using.

Mike
 
Keep them as separate scenes as their own *.vf files in separate folders, then create a master file that you drag and drop the separate scenes to. It's more cumbersome than nesting, but works really well. The old control C - control V :)

Change a scene and and simply delete that space in the master then paste in the new one. If each scene is grouped together it's quite simple to slide them around the timeline.

Cheers,
Pete
 
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