How do I stop file playing as it's rendering?

Rivers · Post by **Rivers** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:36 pm

I've been using VS8 for some months now, creating dvds using the 'Reccommended Procedures'.
Everyday I use this method but today something is different for no apparant reason. I've got to the part where I 'Create Video File', I've put in my figures and it starts rendering to MPEG but now the video file is playing the same time which is going to slow things down a lot! How do I stop this happening. I've looked through every option and cannot find it. I cannot understand why its suddenly happening today. Anyone know?

THoff · Post by **THoff** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:40 pm

AFAIK, you can't stop that. But it also isn't going to slow things down significantly, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Rivers · Post by **Rivers** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:55 pm

Cheers Thoff. The strange thing is that it only plays as it renders with this one file. I've tried another short AVI to MPEG and its fine with that.
A few weeks back I had a file crash VS at 90% rendering every time. But when I viewed this 'incomplete' MPEG in media player it was fine. VS had rendered it 100% so I burned that with menus successfully.
My conclusion is that some video files for some unknown reason make VS throw a wobbily.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 10:34 pm

My own experience of over 2 years with both VS 7 and 8 is that the video ALWAYS plays during the rendering process. I have just tested this again with a couple of short AVIs which I converted separately to DVD-compliant MPEGs using VS8. In both cases, I could see the video clip playing as the rendering process continued. In fact, I even find this useful because it gives me another chance to check details and stop the rendering process if I notice something wrong. AFAIK, this does not affect the rendering time -- though I acknowledge I have nothing to compare this too.

In other words, I find it unusual that your version of the program has not, until now, allowed you to see the video while rendering.

BrianCee · Post by **BrianCee** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:07 am

Yep - I'm with Ken - every video I've ever rendered plays (admittedly at a slow jerky rate ) while rendering takes place, always been that way for me.

Rivers · Post by **Rivers** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:35 pm

Stranger still, I must except that it is normal for the file to play whilst rendering! Up until yesterday I just got a black screen with the % progress bar underneath. The outcome is exactly the same so I will live with it

I felt that it took about 15 minutes longer than usual to render 90 mins file but that could be my imagination.
Thanks all.