MistyLaraCarrara opened this issue on Jun 04, 2012 · 15 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Wed, 18 July 2012 at 7:33 AM
Those kind of long render times is exactly why I almost never render to .avi any more, because if something interupts the render, you've lost it all, but if you are rendering to a .bmp sequence then you'll still have those frames that have already rendered and you can restart the render further along, i.e. if 300 frames have rendered and it stopped with just another 10 frames to go, you can restart from the last 10 frames, and finish the render. But with .avi you have to start all over again.
It's less of a problem for me because I usually like to add sound anyway so I'm used to an extra step in After Effects or Premiere Pro, so importing the bmp sequence is not a problem.
Oh and another good (& very simple) editor is Ulead Video Studio - which I last got as a set with Corel PaintShopPro X2 and is currently only around 45 quid - or $69.99 for the current VideoStudio Pro X5 - dunno how good that version is though as I haven't needed to try it. But it does do Chroma Key green screening.
Have you used Mircosoft Movie Maker much? What's it like?
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