Reducing Render Time

[solarblast]

I have a 90 minute veg file with 60 minutes worth of complex graphics (like moving fractals) in it. Vegas 6 estimates it will take upwards of 7 hours to render the video. Is there some way I can do this piecemeal, maybe split the veg file up?

[fubuki81]

use a third party mpeg encoder like cinema craft, mainconcept (standalone) encoder or canopus procoder any one of these will surely speed up your rendering time.

[Dr_Layne]

that 1.5Ghz cpu isn't helping things at all either. If you must render such complex video and graphics, a faster PC is a must unless you want to render everything while you sleep at night.

[Soopafresh]

512 MB RAM ? You can barely surf the net with 512MB. You deserve an upgrade.

[rhegedus]

I have a 90 minute veg file with 60 minutes worth of complex graphics (like moving fractals) in it. Vegas 6 estimates it will take upwards of 7 hours to render the video. Is there some way I can do this piecemeal, maybe split the veg file up?

What are the source file formats and what format are you rendering to?

Vegas tends to be very slow as it insists on rendering the whole video not just the transitions.

Your best bet would be to render to DV and then use TMPGEnc or Mainconcept to make an mpeg out of the avi.

[guns1inger]

If you are generating these effects on the file it will take it's time, especially on your system. If you are doing a 2-pass encode, it will take twice as long. Splitting the file up isn't going to do much to help you.

Best bet - set it going at bedtime, and look at it in the morning.

[fubuki81]

Solarblast, what's your PC specs?

[solarblast]

I'll be back to look over these posts more carefully tomorrow. However, on the specs, my CPU is 1.67GHz ASUS motherboard with a 1G memory chip.

[solarblast]

Back again. I'm using Vegas 6.0, build 115.It seems to me that I heard some time ago that a later build provided a faster rendering. In any case, I think it's time to try it. I did a download several months ago, but quite sidetracked in installing it.

[guns1inger]

The only thing that will significantly boost your speed is a major CPU upgrade, and all that entails. Anything else, including upgrading Vegas, will be incremental, and most likely only small increments at that. CPU (and the associated architecture) is now your bottleneck.