Captains log, Star date 569720: Before I round things up I am just going to show a bit about the mix down which went surprisingly well! In premier pro I imported all of the rendered scenes from max (I rendered to uncompressed in max in order to let premier do all of the compressing as I was advised by Chris as premier is better for that apparently!)
I also 'knocked' up a few YMCA posters under various genres to give it some diversity but they didn't seem to fit in any of the scenes so we used them at the end instead.
Then I found an arrow whoosh sound that was royalty free on the internet and using that I edited it to make it shorter and faster and added it to the introduction scene with the YMCA logo popping up.
After doing all of this the tables were set for a quick mixdown (and it was quick,but good) and a render .... therein lies the problem. It would seem that the 'friday week 12' virus has struck again reaking havoc throughout all uni computers. Once the mixdown was finished we went to render but the Quad core uni computers ran out of memory! I tried more than one machine and my laptop rendered at around 15frames per 45minutes. This was unacceptable and no matter how much fiddling and altering of settings it just would not render. I even tried spliting them up into miniscule sections but that made no difference.
Then Amy made the suggestion of using Windows Movie Maker (MM), but me being the sceptical microsoft hater that I am was reluctant but we gave it a try and Baam it worked! Now obviously MM is no where near as advanced as Premiere pro (PP) so what I did was to render out each room/scene from MM with the sound and then in PP did one last final mixdown and after a quick-ish render our project is complete. Phew!
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