vegas 4 is killing me

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 7:48 am

i converted 3:30 of the amv i was working on to wmv9 512kbps. it would convert 30 frames, pause for about a second then convert another 30 frames, and it just kept on going like that. it took about 10 minutes to finish

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 11:11 am

That sounds like a buffer filling up, being emptied and then updating your statistics. Something like that... I probably wouldn't have been any faster if you saw it updating all the time. It probably would have been going 0.5frames/sec... or something...

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 2:06 pm

bum wrote:i converted 3:30 of the amv i was working on to wmv9 512kbps. it would convert 30 frames, pause for about a second then convert another 30 frames, and it just kept on going like that. it took about 10 minutes to finish

Ten minutes doesn't sound so bad. For more complex projects, I see rendering times of over an hour for a five minute video (meaning final, for-score renders).

I repeated my render at your spec's (512 kbps WMV9): it took 8.5 minutes, or 10-11 rendered frames per second. I did not see the hesitation that you described.

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:05 am

well its wierd. sometimes it goes slower and other times it goes faster. but it still takes fuck ages (as in, 1-2 frames/second) when merging a standard avi and wav file into avi