This podt made me giggle in a crazy loosing my mind kind of a way.
I've just had an allnighter rendering out tracks for this DVD project I'm on. Taking an average of 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 hours per track. each track is about 5-7mins long.
This stuff is multilayered video with alot of masking and blending of tracks so intensive stuff!
With Vegas I have noticed that on renders that take longer than say 45mins minimizing the window can cut time down by about 5 minutes so its minimal really.
Tips on speeding up a render - I feel an article comming on marc!
# Loads of ram and CPU power!
# where possible render to a disc other than that of the disc where the footage is stored.
# Raided discs speed things up considerably!
# Close down all unessesary applications. Things like messenger, quicktime, i-tunes helper, all those that appear in the task manager that are not system critical. - I've noticed skype to be a bit of a memory hog at times.
# When rendering walk away! If you are doing other things - well its obvious really.
# Specifically with vegas - clean your timeline. Get rid of ALL underlapping clips where you can. Even though those sections are not being rendered. Vegas does try to read them while going through it all. It's the biggest flaw with vegas but also a failsafe measure too.
So in answer to your original question - yes minimizing the window will speed it up buy only by a small amount. Once you introduce multilayersthe process gets longer.
Marc: Has anyone written an article on rendering tips and speeding it up? Maybe a collaboration here as I assume prem pro has other tricks too.
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