• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Lost Renders

  Posted by Steve Courtney on June 23, 2005 at 9:04 pm

  Okay, this is probably a factor of my system (dual 533 G4) rather than FCP, but I’ve got a question. I’ve got a sequence with multiple video tracks, and most of the shots have been color corrected and rendered so I can view them in playback. I’m pasting in some new video clips into a ‘blank’ area on the top video track, above these corrected video layers. I’m just storing these clips there for a second, until I move them to their final destination. When I move them, and reveal the color corrected video layer below, the dreaded red “needs render” line has returned for the bottom layers.

  Is there some basic setting I’m overlooking, perhaps a sequence setting, that will cause FCP to remember that it’s already rendered these tracks? (As you can probably tell, I’m coming from an Avid background, where this sort of thing didn’t happen.)

  Thanks for any clues. It’s not like this is a major hurdle, I just have to pay special attention to where I’m storing these temp video files. But it’s a bit of an annoyance.

  Steve
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  Dual 533, (which is the root of most of my difficulties), FCP 4.5, Panther, DV materials.

  Steve Courtney replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeffrey

  June 23, 2005 at 9:46 pm

  Well, you simply can’t do that in FCP. Once you put a clip on top of another rendered clip you will loose the origional render file. I would advise to put the clips you are sorting through in the timeline AFTER the end of your project in that blank space. Then you won’t loose your renders.
  Jeff
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  Les Kaye

  June 24, 2005 at 8:06 am

  Nest the rendered area (option+c), then you won’t get the red line. At this point in my workflow it’s become a given. This is also a good way of cleaning up/collapsing multiple layers. The caveats are:
  1-since the process is not as transparent as Avid’s collapse, you can end up with a clutter of more timelines (for which you can create a “Nest” bin).
  2-if you need to do any trimming between a nested and not nested section – it won’t work as seamlessly as Avid. But if you know this going in, you can work around it.
  -Les
  (also from an Avid bg).
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  Steve Courtney

  June 24, 2005 at 8:17 pm

  Thanks, that’s exactly the sort of answer I was looking for. Thanks for the help.

  Steve

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