My EVE

Render a ten second segment and time it (Vegas should tell you how long each render took)

take that time and do the following math:

(time * 6) * video length in minutes = render time.

If your video is 23 minutes and it takes 1 minute to render 10 seconds, then the following:

(1 * 6) * 23 = 138 minutes render time.

This is always approximate, as anything which has transitions, effects, or speed-ramps - will take longer than footage which doesn't, as there will be more for the PC to calculate.

Remember - 1920x1080 is over two million pixels per frame, and 62,208,000 pixels @ 30 frames per second. That's a lot of junk for the CPU/GPU to deal with and make sure is hunky dory.

If even 1 pixel is out of place...

AK

overnight

lol

I usually render using lagarith lossless codec in vegas, which doesn't take all that long (Couple of hours), but comes out uncompressed, so the compression into an mkv with staxrip takes the better part of a day.

There's a link at the top for resources. There are video tuts there by moi, for Vegas.

Trying to explain whilst travelling is hard by smartphone ;)

I have eve sound and voice on seperate tracks.

In the intro part I just speak as I fraps so that is with the clip, second clip I record directly into sony vegas.

The speed of the video is unchanged.

quick question that kinda fits in here. Once we render in Vegas and get a , say .wmv file, is that it? Or is there another process to do to get the final product? I keep seeing comments that appears there is a final encoding to do before you are done.

Pre-rendering (shift+M)

This lil' trick is good to use if Vegas crashes, or the render fails in some way. It was designed to get smooth editing playback prior to a final render, but has a handy red/green line that runs along the timeline. If one of the Fraps files/media files has an error in it (which used to drive people nuts - me included) it will have a red line above it. If it's all green, you're all set.

It's not essential, but can alleviate any concerns that your footage is borked.

You would also need to setup a temp folder for this (check file=>properties) as it will write to your HDD.

If you want to pre-render a smaller selection, like 10-20 seconds worth, you might wish to write to RAM using (shift+B). In After Effects, this is what is known as a RAM preview.

You can render to anything you want in terms of wmv,mkv,mp4,avi and since most videos end up on youtube anyway, it really doesn't matter as much as it once did regarding filesize and people downloading it - which was the original idea behind using mkv, as it can shrink files really well.

I never liked the washed-out look that comes with mkv - and Vegas (imho) provides a really nice wmv file, with richer colors. MP4 on Adobe software though.

AK