This should also be for architect. Really helps with HD renders since they take so long in both and pretty much tie up a machine while rendering. I can get them started and take off and when I get the email on my phone I can head back and check what went wrong or start working again once complete....

Seriously. Make a product suggestion.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/support/productsuggestion.asp

Didn't Jonathan Neal create an audible alarm utility for when rendering finished.

He would probably expand the app to include email notification if you suggest it to him.

Edit: There you go http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=4&MessageID=486701Vegasist[/link]

"Really helps with HD renders since they take so long in both and pretty much tie up a machine while rendering."

Why? What's wrong with your computer that you can't run other tasks normally while rendering?

Lossless mpg smartrendering certainly has made life a LOT easier for me so I am not as concerned about crashes, but I am confident now in my configs on the machines I use to render that if I set it and leave it be that I will get perfect renders which often take days to complete on Q6600 machines with max HQ ram. But if i do something on the computer or the USB bus that might cause a bottle neck in data processing or memory management would get render problems like black frames or sluggish sections. Now with smart rendering i can drop in the good rendered pieces cut out the bad parts and rerender and it will take a fraction of the time where before smart rendering you were stuck rerendering the whole project for another day or two.
Hopefully V9 will resolve the peak rebuilding issue, if so then Vegas will finally become an efficient tool for pieces cut from clip based source material of more than a few hours. Because up to this point with m2t based material Vegas has often wasted full workdays on black frame search and correction, frozen renders due to memory management, a bad mpg reader, and totally unnecessary audio peak building.

Not problems for folks cutting 5 minutes of their kids at the playground but major problems for people who are in business to make a profit. Fortunately the only issue remaining for us is the peak building so hopefully prayer will be answered when i double click on the V9 icon. :-)

Yep I agree. I have found that I best leave my machine alone when it is rendering.
If I try to do other things, i.e. got to the internet, run other apps etc.
it seems to for one slow things down, but most of all I do not get a complete render.
So my machine is pretty much tied up for the duration.

Ted

Give this is a go:

Email Afer Render (imaginitively titled)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.edmiston/misc.htm

Very strange. Every computer i run Vegas on can handle doing pretty much anything else i want to do at the same time as rendering. The only penalty is a very slightly longer render. If it's causing problems for you then you definitely have some problems with your system that should be fixed.

On the other hand, if you are rendering as an income-based business, then you should be treating your rendering machine as a dedicated tool anyway. However, just because it's a dedicated tool that you don't use for other tasks doesn't mean you can ignore rendering problems that might be caused by other activity. If you have the problems at all, then they can sneak in and affect the process even when you think you're not doing any other tasks, and that's something you should be guarding against. Simply saying "i don't worry about that problem caused by 'A' because i don't do 'A'" doesn't help you when the problem starts being caused by 'B' as well. Far better to find the problem and fix it than to ignore it, even more importantly on a dedicated production machine.

Andy, man you are knocking them down one by one!

Hey Andy,

Can I put together a page with all of your free plugins? I think there needs to be some repository somewhere of all the free stuff you can add to Vegas.

Jonathan

Jonathan,

Sure no problem.

That'll be a fantastic help to anyone new coming to Vegas.

Hey Andy,

All right, tomorrow I will get on this. I may email you for links to your other works. I think this, the color plugin, and some of the other plugins would be great to have centralized, that's what I originally wanted with the madison site. We'll see if a few years later I'm able to do this more realistically. Thanks. :-)

Jonathan

"Very strange. Every computer i run Vegas on can handle doing pretty much anything else i want to do at the same time as rendering. The only penalty is a very slightly longer render. If it's causing problems for you then you definitely have some problems with your system that should be fixed."

I feel fairly confident that I could do most things while rendering and not cause major problems, but why bother If I have several workstations open. The email thing just helps expedite projects so they aren't unnecessarily waiting for us to go to check the machine's progress or waiting idle for the user to move to the next phase. There are plenty of porjects that i would like to get an email even if they completed in the middle of the night that i would head to the office and start the DVD encode so it is working while I sleep instead of adding 8 or 10 hours to the time line to start the encode when i get back to the office the next morn.

Good stuff Andy. Im looking forward to testing this out. Is there an ability or possibility to send an email on any event that causes a render to stop occuring, like a lockup, power outage etc etc?

Good stuff Andy. Im looking forward to testing this out. Is there an ability or possibility to send an email on any event that causes a render to stop occuring, like a lockup, power outage etc etc?

There are three events you can "sign up" for. Render start, render progress and render complete.

If Vegas craps out badly i.e. crashes, it's unlikely the render complete event would even be fired. Aside from that for any error conditions it handles correctly I'd expect the notification to work.