Re: [videoblogging] Re: FCP render question

Tue, 16 May 2006 13:47:38 -0700

Hi Richard,

Yes, turning the Unlimited RT on is a good idea.
There are other things I have found that helps speed up the rendering process:

1. Make every clip(all those AVI or MOV or WMV) you import into a DV file, before hand using Quicktime.  If you are importing straight from a DV camcorder, the file is already in DV format and you get away with doing things to it before requiring a render.

2. Make sure that  your save file is located on another Hard drive than the one your operating system is on, preferably connected via firewire.

3. Render each bit as you go along, rather than waiting to render at the end.

4. If you are green screening or using color correction these do take time, but avoid long peices of footage between cuts, in fact I have found if it is a long bit there is nothing wrong with chopping it into smaller pieces before you edit. Then copy over the setting onto the next segment.

5. I have also found that due to the nature of this beast we call FCP, it is sometimes almost necessary in some instances of rendering to just get up from the computer and go and make a cup of coffee or tea, walk around the house, mow the lawn, walk the dog, go down the shops for a newspaper etc, and by the time you get back the thing will be finished rendering, it's just the way it is.

6.  You can however if you click on your canvas box just above the playback controls and use your mouse wheel you can see what the thing will look like frame by frame if you wish.

Hope this helped.

Paul

On 16 May 2006, at 21:12, Zadi wrote:

Hey Richard:

On the upper left-hand side of your sequence timeline there is a
little button with the letters "RT" and a downward facing carrot.

Set your timeline to "Unlimited RT"
Playback video quality to "Medium" or "Low"
Playback Frame-Rate to "Half" or "Quarter"

Now you don't have to render anything until you're happy with the
outcome. More process driven effects may have to be rendered though.
But it helps greatly.

Zadi
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--- In [email protected], "Richard (Show) Hall"
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>
> Ok, now I want to be clear that I am not posting a technical question in
> support of the "out to lunch" post ... I am all for, and have been quite
> enjoying, the far ranging and captivating dialogue on the VLOG list
... as
> for my opinion on these matters, my friends disagree, and I always agree
> with my friends ...
>
> ... anyway ... my trivial/technical/FCP rookie question.
>
> I was complaining to some more skilled FCP users about the way you
have to
> wait seven years (a slight exageration) for almost everything to
render in
> FCP before you could preview it with the video while editing, whereas in
> Premier it would show you a pretty reasonable (though not as accurate)
> preview while you were editing and would wait and do all the
rendering at
> the end.
>
> One or more of these FCP experts told me that there was a setting in FCP
> that would make it so that you could preview without this exact
rendering,
> more like Premier.
>
> I emailed some of these experts, and, since they did not respond
within 10
> seconds, I grew impatient and decided to pose this question to the list.
>
> Any help, as always would be much appreciated.
>
> Richard, the impatient FCP rookie ...
>
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> Richard
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