• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Keep background render status open when changing apps

  Posted by David Mohl on February 19, 2015 at 4:22 pm

  Hey guys, short question to FCPX that bugged me until today: Can I somehow have the background render status window open constantly?
  I have 2 displays usually with: Editing on one, viewer on the second. When I do background render stuff I move the status window to the second screen to glimpse at the status now and then. Whenever I open another app though, the window disappears.

  Background: I edit on a old MacBook. Sometimes I have to render edited footage out to get fluid playback which can take a while. While rendering I usually browse the internets but constantly have to click back into FCPX to check the status. The viewer for example doesn’t disappear when changing apps. Any ideas?

  Jeremy Garchow replied 11 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Bret Williams

  February 19, 2015 at 5:07 pm

  It’s a HUD. All HUDs disappear when the focus isn’t on the app. Don’t know why, but that’s the way it is.

  cmd+tab is your quickest way to peek back and see how the progress is going.
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  Jeremy Garchow

  February 19, 2015 at 5:24 pm

  [David Mohl] “Any ideas?”

  Open Activity Monitor (command-space, a-c-t-i, return).

  Click the CPU tab.

  Sort the CPU column form top down. Note the activity.

  If you are using FCPX presets, “Final Cut Pro” will have a high CPU usage.

  If you are using Compressor presets, you’ll see “Pro Transcoder Tool” have a high CPU usage.

  When the CPU usage falls down to close to zero, your files are ready.

  Jeremy

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