• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Rendering in FCP

  Posted by Scott Dennis on April 27, 2005 at 4:59 pm

  With FCP 5, it is possible to mix res without a card. Correct? How does this effect rendering? Is it necessary to render every time a clip is moved in a mixed res. timeline? Would a card improve this? How does rendering differ in FCP when compared with Avid Xpress Pro?

  Thanks!

  Mel Matsuoka replied 21 years ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  April 27, 2005 at 5:43 pm

  “With FCP 5, it is possible to mix res without a card. Correct?”

  Incorrect. Your timeline will be set to one resolution, and any resolution that does not match those settings will need rendering. DV, HDV, DVCPRo HD, HD…they all have varying sizes and aspects ratios. If capture them in their native formats, then try to put them in one timeline…something will have to be rendered. If you move the clip with the resolution that differs from the timeline settings, then it will need to be rendered.

  No card will help this…other than to allow you to capture the various formats as one…DV, HDV, DVCPRO-50 all captured as 8-bit uncompressed, for instance.

  Not sure about Avid Express Pro, but other Avid products get by this by capturing material as one resolution: 15:1, 2:1, 1:1…Avid codecs….thru it’s own proprietary capture cards. Again…the way to accomplish the same thing with FCP is to purchase a Decklink card or AJA capture product and capture all the various formats using one codec…8-bit uncompressed or 10-bit uncompressed, for example.
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  Jerry Hofmann

  April 27, 2005 at 5:43 pm

  Incorrect… the behavior is the same as FCP 4.5 with mixed resolutions. i.e., it’s not a new feature. Only card out there that will do this is the CineWave whose future is in serious doubt.

  Jerry
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  Mel Matsuoka

  April 28, 2005 at 7:15 am

  I think it’s safe to say that, now that Avid owns Pinnacle, the Cinewave product is about as dead as dead can possibly be.

  There have been nebulous reports (mostly gleaned from nondescript verbiage in NAB 2005 press releases) that the updated Blackmagic Decklink cards will allow realtime playback of mixed codec/resolution footage within the same timeline in FCP 5.0.

  I really hope this is true, but nobody from Blackmagic has yet to clarify this mysterious new “feature” mentioned in thier promo literature.

  Aloha,
  mel

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