DIVX Rendering

Lightway wrote on 5/20/2003, 6:03 AM
I tried to render a 1 hour video divx to fit on a CD. I got up the next morning to find that the render boc was still up that the estimated time to go was 0 and the elasped time was 7 hours or so. I tried to cancel the render at that point and no response - the rendering box just sits there. Trying to end task gets a response that Vegas is doing something inthe background and cannot close or something. This does not happen with short 5mins tests I have done. It seems that when the file size of the Divx avi get to 400+Mb the thing freezes. I tried a 40 minute video and the same thing happens. I have P4 2.5Ghz so 7 hours sounds too long to me and there was plenty of drive space left. I tried both the version 4 and 5 codecs and they both do the same thing. Has anyone had similar experiences with divx rendering (in vegas or in general....)

Thanks
LW

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Erk wrote on 5/20/2003, 1:44 PM
Haven't add problems rendering to DivX from Vegas. Biggest files I've rendered are proably 200 - 300 MBs.

I can only recommend getting the latest codec etc.

G
MDVid wrote on 5/20/2003, 3:35 PM
Not sure why you're having a problem I have rendered several large DV files to Vegas using Divx Pro codec w/o problem. If you do this often, you may want to check out Dr. DiVx, (encoding program from DiVx networks), with Satish's frameserve plug-n-pac, you can frame serve to DR DiVx and set the encoding parameters intuitively. I have used it extensively in the past couple of weeks, and it's pretty neat.

JTH
kameronj wrote on 5/21/2003, 6:14 AM
Speaking of which....what do I need in order to render to DivX?

I d/l'd the latest DivX package from Divx and installed - now what should I choose when rendering?

(I know its a basic question - I just woke up.)

Thanks
MDVid wrote on 5/22/2003, 3:32 AM
From "render as" template choose Windows for Media *.avi,
from that template choose "custom", click the video tab, and under video format drop
down box find your DivX encoder.

Or... you can frame serve to your favorite encoder (Vdub, DR Divx) using Plugin pacs frameserve add on.

JTH
mikkie wrote on 5/22/2003, 12:07 PM
"I got up the next morning to find that the render boc was still up that the estimated time to go was 0 and the elasped time was 7 hours or so. I tried to cancel the render at that point and no response - the rendering box just sits there. Trying to end task gets a response that Vegas is doing something inthe background and cannot close or something."

Did the render finish - check the hard drive? I've had this happen, most recently after an 8 or 10 hour render (can't remember exactly) when I guessed that Vegas was indexing the rendered file. The file itself was rendered OK though. To stop Vegas I had to use the task manager - no big deal, just control-alternate-delete, std. 3 finger salute stuff. I have since stopped checking the box for indexing and haven't run into it again.

Haven't tried renders to DiVX, but might (should) be similar. For render times, with no FX and doing a dual pass vbr to wmv at anything over 320 x 240, 7 hours for an hour's worth wouldn't give me pause.
bbcoach wrote on 5/23/2003, 1:18 AM
Hi! I have never tried to render to DiVX.

What is the Quality like? After rendering, what next? Can I burn the file to a cd? Will I need a special player to play the cd or can I use a dvd program like Power DVD? Do I have to download DiVX codecs or something of that nature?

Thanks!
dat5150 wrote on 6/24/2003, 7:59 PM
I rendered just as you outlined and I get an avi file about the same size as the original avi. Isn't divx supposed to be a much smaller file size? I must be doing something wrong.