• Avid Media Composer

  How does Avid handle rendered clips?

  Posted by Chris Davis on November 22, 2009 at 2:11 pm

  Hello,

  I am a FCP user wondering how MC3/3.5 handle rendered clips. Specifically, when you render a clip in the timeline, can you then change the location of the clip within the timeline without re-rendering? (On FCP6/7 you cannot).

  Thanks,
  Chris

  Chris Davis replied 16 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Michael Phillips

  November 22, 2009 at 3:25 pm

  Yes, if the entire span of the clip is moved, it will stay rendered. If any dependent relationships are changed during that move, it will need to be re-rendered.

  Michael Phillips
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  Shane Ross

  November 22, 2009 at 3:30 pm

  [Chris Davis] “when you render a clip in the timeline, can you then change the location of the clip within the timeline without re-rendering?”

  Yup. And if you move the clips…say you have layers…and then move them back…the render returns. You don’t need to UNDO. And Avid will connect partial renders too.

  [Chris Davis] “(On FCP6/7 you cannot). “

  UH…I can. If I move a rendered set of clips from one part of the timeline to another, the render stays. Unless you put it on top of other clips…then the render goes away.

  Shane

  

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  Chris Davis

  November 22, 2009 at 7:48 pm

  Michael and Shane,
  Thanks for your quick replies.

  [Shane Ross]
  UH…I can. If I move a rendered set of clips from one part of the timeline to another, the render stays. Unless you put it on top of other clips…then the render goes away.”

  Yeah, it seems dependent on what I am doing with the rendered file. I just played around with FCP and I could not find some of the problems with rendered moving files that I was referring to before. I guess I still don’t know all the “rules” of FCP yet.

  Thanks again,
  Chris

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