How to view the film when saving to file?

[mauricel]

With Pro X4 I am unable to view a display on my film during saving to the file. Is there a way to fix that?

[Ken Berry]

Welcome to the forums.

If, as I think you are, you are talking about viewing while a new video is being rendered from a project in the timeline (Share > Create Video File), then as far as I am aware, no version of Video Studio has ever been able to do it. And why exactly would you want it? Rendering does not occur in real time. Some rendering, especially when using SmartRender, can happen very quickly indeed so there would be no point in being able to watch the rendering occurring on the preview screen.

If, on the other hand, you are talking about File > Save (or Save As), this merely saves the project file, not the video itself. Moreover, it too is near instantaneous and there would be definitely no point in being able to watch it happen on the preview screen.

If you are not talking about either of these two situations, then please explain what you want in a little more detail, please.

EDIT: Since writing the above, I have discovered that you have double posted, and I locked the other thread. The only extra information in that other post was that you recall you could do what you wanted in VS 11+. Unfortunately, I no longer have that version on any of my computers so I cannot test it. However, as noted above, I don't recall any version of VS being able to do it.

[Ron P.]

If you're talking about seeing your video play in the preview screen while it's rendering then yes you still can. In the progress bar during rendering click the triangle (play button) to the left of the pause.

[Ken Berry]

Good lord! I have NEVER noticed that in all the time I have been using VS!! I still stick to my comment, though, that I can see little point in watching, particularly if the render is very fast, as many of them tend to be these days...

[Ron P.]

... that I can see little point in watching, particularly if the render is very fast, as many of them tend to be these days...

I have the same opinion, and even if the render is slow, Now factor in how it was pushed back in VS10, to remove the preview while rendering. Almost everyone wanted the option to shut-off the preview during rendering, because they felt it would help speed up the process..

[BrianCee]

Sorry Ken but I am going to have to disagree with you - I have been able to watch the video while rendering (without any special selection procedure) in every single version of VS I used upto X2 - it was only when I changed to X4 that I realised it was not happening without clicking on Rons little icon.

[Ken Berry]

The odd part about that, though, Brian, was that to test before I posted, I rendered a small file in X2, and got no playback and didn't spot the little icon either... Mind you, I just tried it again in X2 and this time saw that it too had Ron's icon...

[BrianCee]

This gets stranger and stranger - I opened up X2 and did some tests - I always use custom templates to make my videos - using them I can see my video while rendering - so then I tried "same as project settings" and guess what - NO video while rendering. In both cases though I do see the 'visible' icon on the end of the rendering bar.

So - I do not remember making any special selection to show the video while setting up my custom template - so why the difference ???

[Trevor Andrew]

Hi

Like you Brian I have always been able to view the video whilst rendering.
I have to add though this seems to depend on the render speed.

With my earlier (slow) computer I always saw the frames playing.
Render being slow seems to allow VS playback to keep up.

However give it something simple to do (fast render) and the screen is black

At least thats my thoughts.

[Black Lab]

If I remember correctly, the parts you can see are being re-rendered. If no re-rendering is needed, i.e. SmartRender is enabled, you do not see anything. Does that sound familiar to anyone or did I dream that one up?


EDIT: Yep, just tried it (phew, I'm not going nuts). I put a DV-AVI file in the timeline, got the message asking if I wanted to change the project properties to match the clip, clicked OK. I then dropped a WMV file next to it. Went to Share>Create Video File>Same as Project Settings. Saw only a black screen while it "rendered" the DV-AVI clip, but actually saw the WMV clip as it rendered.

[Ron P.]

I had tried a similar thing last night, and had the same results. I took a couple of MPEG-2 files, one I applied a filter that would cause VS to recode it.

[msp7fan]

Perhaps i can solve that

I have seen, that VS decides given options on its own.

When i put something on the timeline and render that without saving it to a file, then VS only shows the first frames only of that file during rendering. I do that sometimes, when i only have to edit start/end and render one or two files which are cleaned with TS-doctor before, because the additional streams within the *.TS video files from my SAT-recorder brings VS into a crash after slowing it down.

But when i render one or more saved file(s) with the batch option, then VS shows me the complete file(s) during the render process.

Funny

[mauricel]

You have the solution Ron and it is so simple that I could not see it. And it will please our other friends because the viewing can be stopped by clicking the small arrow again and started back by clicking again and so on. Thanks to Corel Video Studio is getting more and more interesting to use.
Regards.