Mass rendering?

Snittman

Snittman

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Hey, first post here but certainly not my last. Pretty glad I've found this site. I have already picked up some tips just from lurking around here.

But I have a small question... I am doing a Playthrough of a game that is medium-long... I try to keep my videos 12 - 20 minutes long (A large gap so I can at least attempt to stop at a point that is comfortable for the viewers. I.E after a major milestone).
So this means I get a lot of small videos very very quickly indeed.

When I really get in the mood for the game, I don't like stopping. I'd rather have a stopping point and just continue the game, creating more footage and then deal with it afterwards.
I am also unable to render DURING the gameplay due to lag. Sony vegas 12 will just eat up all my CPU and even then takes roughly 1 hour per video to render at just 720p...

So, I try to leave the night time for uploading and rendering. Only problem is, I can upload multiple videos on YouTube but cannot render multiple videos on sony vegas.
Does anybody know of a way that I can render multiple videos? It doesn't even need to be via sony vegas.

A few things I've thought of...
1) Open multiple Sony Vegas's and render 3 videos at once. Simply put, this is a horrible solution to my problem. It will cause insane stress on my PC and possibly become counter productive if everything freezes (Including chrome, which i'm using to upload the videos with too!)
2) Make a huge video, then use the utilities of YouTube to trim the video down into separate videos. The only problem with this, is as far as I'm aware, you can't make multiple videos when trimming on YouTube... The trimming function is there to cut off/out sections of one single video... Not to actually cut a video into two different videos?

I'm sure I'm not the only person with this problem. It just annoys me because I'm creating content faster than I can actually render/upload. And using fraps with one of the games I'm recording now makes a 40 - 65gb (Yeah, GB...) file PER 18 - 24 mins... I can't just stockpile footage and then slowly release it over a few days... It will get to a point when my HDD (2TB) is full and I can't actually record myself because i'm waiting for my PC to render...

Thanks. Any advice on this matter, even non-direct answers are appreciated.
 
try checking your render settings, the format of your video may be a huge file, if you are using avi switch to something else, avi files can be huge, i mean HUGE, so try rendering it in a different format it might help i know it helped me :)
 
Yeah, AVI is f*****g huge. I never use AVI.
I actually render to WMV. Will do a test using .mp4 files because I saw the tutorial on rendering on this website. I thought I was supposed to render in WMV...
The filesizes aren't so big. And I put pretty much no effects on (Just changing the loudness of audio)
 
If you aren't worried about size and still want great quality but quickly, use the XDCAM .mp4 choice. It creates a .mpeg2 but with a .mp4 container and it does it blazing fast. Also produces the best rendered video quality.
 
I render in Sony Vegas in .mp4 ,720p, 24fps.

1080p renders are huge.

YouTube cuts framrates down to 30 so thats the max I would render at.

If you`ve got a 1 hr video and you want 4x15 mins episodes just render 0:00 - 15:00 then 15:00 - 30: 00 and so on !!!
 
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