Quote: I am currently working on a rather large project, because of it's size I am rendering in smaller chunks.
Once all the smaller parts are completed I want to re-render all of them together.
Will this process degrade the videos that have been rendered already?

Thanks for any tips.

You are probably going to get about a dozen opinions on this. If your rendering of the short pieces is done with your final target in mind, for instance "mpg2 for a DVD" then no, re-rendering won't degrade the video to an appreciable extent. All the ones and zeros are already in the right place.

But why re-render?

Read up on SVRT. it looks at what you have on the timeline and renders only what needs to be rendered - For instance, the areas between the clips.

You mention a large project. Remember that you can get about one hour of best quality video on a single layer DVD, almost 2 hours on a double layer DVD. If you put all those short videos together and the time exceeds those guidelines, the video will be rendered to fit. The bit rate will be adjusted and you will lose quality.
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Yes I will Read up on SVRT .
Thank you for the tip.

But why re-render?

Read up on SVRT. it looks at what you have on the timeline and renders only what needs to be rendered - For instance, the areas between the clips.

You mention a large project. Remember that you can get about one hour of best quality video on a single layer DVD, almost 2 hours on a double layer DVD. If you put all those short videos together and the time exceeds those guidelines, the video will be rendered to fit. The bit rate will be adjusted and you will lose quality.