Vegas and a Faster Lossless Codec ?

[Pookie]

I'm looking for a quicker way to render out of Vegas 6 to a visually lossless AVI. It took 11 hours to render a 28 minute video (lots of effects) via Lagarith on an Athlon 64 3000 with 1.5GB RAM.

Since Vegas works in RGB, does it make sense to render via a codec that also outputs RGB ?

Ultimately, I want to encode the resulting AVI to Mpeg2 NTSC-DVD via AviSynth and FFMPEG (which works great, BTW).

Thanks

[adoniscik]

http://www.compression.ru/video/ls-codec/index_en.html

[Sir_Lagsalot]

The bulk of the time is probably just processing the video and rendering the effects via Vegas. Changing codecs probably will not have much of an effect as a result. If you want a faster codec though, use Huffyuv; MSU (what adoniscik linked to) is much slower than Lagarith.

[Pookie]

Thanks for the responses. Interesting- I tried a Size comparison of Huffy to Lagarith and Huffy turned out to be 3x larger. Still, if I could have cut the rendering time down by a few hours, I would have gladly given up the space.