Sony vegas render time for movie?

Question

So, me and my dad like to edit footage he's recorded and put them onto dvd, i used to use vegas for little short 3-4 minute videos for youtube back in like 2007 or so, but it's been awhile since i've used vegas, so im deciding to use vegas as my primary video editing software now, usually these little movies run from 2-3 hours long, and all we do is put Pictures, transitions for pictures, music, video footage, and titles. That's what me and my dad do for our regular dvds but we want to step up our game and make our dvds look more professional with vegas, so i was wondering how long would it take to render? We import dv tapes, and the raw footage is in avi, usually i edit them in windows movie maker, and it comes out to be wmv afterwards, which im fine with, and i throw it into nero vision to burn afterwards. So now that im going to use vegas, how long should it take to render to AVI or WMV? Also, after that what program should i use to put the file onto a dvd? Because nero vision+Avi files, dont work well together for some reason.

Answer 1

After you have captured the video (DV-avi) keep it that until the time of rendering, don't convert the video from the original to another format then convert again to another format you are reducing the quality,



capture the videos directly into Vegas, edit and then render/export/save as (again DV-AVI)



Another problem you are having is that your video file as a DV-AVI is going to be 24-36GB that one big file.



I have used nero for years and for my own videos I find it quick to bang a few videos onto a DVD (Nero Vision) Always works with DV-AVI, I am writing DV-AVI because an AVI is not a video format its a container, and inside the video can be many things. DV-AVI tells me the codec used to compress the video.



How long is it going to take to render, that will depend on your system, My computer about an hour, ish, my sons about a day.



By trying to put three hours of video onto a DVD is not going to give you the best quality, try to keep them less than 90 minutes



The way I would process the video.



capture video, through software (I use Premiere for work), edit and do what ever you want to do with the video, (leaving that bit open as I add chapter marks to export to Encore or for other processes) render, and build your DVD menu, burn to DVD.



As I dont use Vegas, played with a trial copy a few years ago, I dont know the way that it does things.



Hope that helps a little



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Answer 2

School computers usually have monitors of 1280x1024 so don't go higher than 720p. School computers are also terribly slow so I would recommend 480p. Now, for format, I would go with .wmv just because everything can support it. MPEG-4 and AVI would take up a lot of space, but would look much better. The "Artifacts" you were talking about are usually referred to as "fireflies". You either made the resolution too high or too low I'm guessing, or you uses a diiferent format than your source and something went wrong in the conversion. EDIT: Don't forget to set aspect ratio to 4:3 and make sure the bitrate isn't higher than 4000kbps, otherwise it'll be too high to run on a 32-bit $100 school PC.

Answer 3

If you're going to edit in Vegas..stick with AVI...which is not compressed like WMV...Vegas will have to uncompress/decompress the WMV files in order to work with them so it will not only be more difficult to working with them on the Vegas timeline, but it will also increase your render time. Try to work with raw uncompressed video in Vegas at all times. Vegas usually ships with DVD Architect will allows you to create menu-based DVD's...pretty cool. I've used it to create many professional wedding videos.

Answer 4

You should be able to burn to disc after render in Vegas, as the program usually has its own burning software.

Just keep in mind that the more video you try to put on to disc the lesser quality you will get!