I finally got my replacement laptop on Friday, after a false start on Tuesday when I got to the door of Comet at exactly 6 o'clock and it was already locked. The new one is an Asus X53E, same as the old one, but a Core i7 rather than an i5 as the i5 is now £900! (The trackpad button failed on the old one after less than a month - bizarre. Hope it's a one-off).
I managed to restore all my data, reinstalled Vegas (the on-line registration worked fine, so the rumours that Sony allow you to install Vegas 5 times must be true). The first time I re-rendered scene one I was a bit disappointed - it took longer than the i5. Turns out it was AVG doing its initial virus scan that was slowing it down. The next one I tried was very fast - A fairly complex scene with multiple levels of colour correction, and a scene that I had reversed, takes about 130% of the running time to render. How long would it have taken on my old pc? 10 hours?
Anyeay, Lifehacking consists of 7 scenes that I edited as separate Vegas projects so yesterday I put the finishing touches in to each scene (mainly adding the sound of the mobile phone ring tone) and produced a first cut of the whole thing. It's longer than I thought, nearly 15 minutes. Watching it through (which I promised myself I wouldn't do) it seems very slow to me, but then I've seen every second of it dozens of times.
I'm going to give a copy of it to my brother, Matt, to see if he can come up with any music for the intervals between the scenes and then I'm going to leave it for at least 2 weeks with the hope that coming to it with fresh eyes will help me spot the errors and have a clearer view of the overall flow.
I've learned masses from doing this, which I hope to make the subject of a future post.
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