video Render

yep it would be great to be able to render the video output together with the audio output from the master.... HUGE timesaver for all kinds of projects... FR here

That would turn Reaper into a full video editor. Still a lot of things I'd rather they be working on in the audio/midi parts rather than add an entire video editing layer into the program (and take the price wayyyyyyyy up trying to take on the developers and everything to handle it.)

I've been doing music to picture and whenever I want to email my clients a rough of what I've done I need to render the audio and then bring it into a video editor and then export the finished product which takes literally 10-15 minutes. A huge waste of time. I'm not looking to make REAPER a "Full fledged video editor" - just a simple export of a video reference ie whatever we are seeing in the video window - together the master audio track - shouldn't be too much of a nightmare to write. And would make all kinds of cool workflows possible

I would find this very useful too. How would adding "video render" turn Reaper into a FULL VIDEO EDITOR ? Sorry, but that's just exaggerating. It would only complete Reaper as a full DAW usable for music production and audio for video post production. It's just a basic multiplexing of audio + video, nothing else.

Window Media Video and Quicktime are just about the only two candidates that may be a viable solution. Quicktime in particular has the encoding built in, though I have no idea how easy access to that API is. A good function to have. Is this a priority to you over the video-follows-edit stuff we're asking for ? That is my priority at this time concerning video features in Reaper.

while handy, there are so many easy alternatives to this that, given reapers other needs, this seems more of a distraction to me. perhaps sometime in the future. i don't dislike the idea, just think it should be VERY low priority.

the alternatives are not so easy. suppose you have a video clip that doesn't start at the beginning of the project? a nightmare. Even in the best situation it really is quite time consuming if part of a workflow to reconstitute video over and over. And ultimately the simple video editing already inside REAPER could be very useful for sketching out ideas without having to go back and forth to a video editor. For those of us on the audio side who are not video editing people it opens up a lot of creative and workflow enhancing possibilities.

@Airon - have you put the video follows edit request into the tracker?

The Quicktime route sounds like the most compatible. Almost any editor I know has Quicktime Pro, just to stay compatible with the rest of the post production world. -edit- I convert the Quicktime H264 video files I get to something more usable for editing for example. Or strip out timecode tracks, or get rid of the audio and saving it to a separate file, and so on. Semiquaver, it's the request I linked to in my first post that Plush2 originally posted last July.