• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Things that have to be rendered are bugging me.

  Posted by Ed Stevens on October 18, 2005 at 1:59 am

  My SYSTEM

  MAC dual G5 2.5 gig. 4.5 gb RAM. OS 10.3.8
  Blackmagic Decklink Extreme card v4.8b
  FCP 4.5 production Suite
  500GB G-Raid Firewire800
  Decks = Beta-SP, DVCpro, DigiBeta.
  Audio Mix = Mackie 1604 VLZpro
  I believe I have the stock display card
  Panasonic AJD-230H DVCpro deck

  I have been working on FCP4.5 and a MAC since May 05. Everything has been fine but now I am getting into deeper things.
  Some questions.
  When I bring in a DV on a timeline with Beta-SP, It has to be rendered. After I have rendered, If I move it slightly, it has to be rendered again. The same with a Live Type clip.
  This rendering is driving me crazy. If you change a file in LiveType, It will not update in the timeline. I even have to re-import the file. If I bring in an audio clip it has to be rendered. It takes me at least 20 tries before it wil render.
  Does anyone know what I can do or what is happening?
  Thanks in advance
  ED

  Ed Stevens replied 20 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  October 18, 2005 at 2:34 am

  [Ed Stevens] “When I bring in a DV on a timeline with Beta-SP, It has to be rendered. After I have rendered, If I move it slightly, it has to be rendered again.”

  that’s standard operating procedure on FCP. You cannot mix codecs in the same timeline in realtime. Only the CineWave could do that and it’s done.

  I would suggest you simply capture the DV footage to an uncompressed codec instead or export the DV clip as a self contained Uncompressed clip.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
  https://www.biscardicreative.com

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  Ed Stevens

  October 18, 2005 at 3:01 am

  Thanks for your reply.
  But what about LiveType. or Audio from CD. Everything needs rendering.
  I remember when I worked with Premier and Title motion. Everything updated,
  when you made changes and you could work from the timeline. FCP * LiveType
  make it difficult. Any thoughts?
  ED
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  Gunleik Groven

  October 18, 2005 at 9:40 am

  [Ed Stevens] “Audio from CD”

  Audio from CD is 44.1 Khz. Audio in Video is 48Khz
  Import the track
  Convert it in QuickTime to 48 khz
  et voila

  Gunleik
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  Kim Rowley

  October 18, 2005 at 1:54 pm

  How are you modifying your Livetype title clips? If you ctl-click on the title clip in the timeline and choose the option “Open in editor” that clip goes straight over to Livetype and the changes you make should be reflected in your FCP clip. You still need to re-render in FCP but the changes made should be there without having to re-import anything.

  Dual 2.7 GHz G5, 4GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9650, Xserve RAID, AJA IO, 2 20″ Cinema Display, FCP 5.02, OS X10.4.2
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  Ed Stevens

  October 19, 2005 at 2:20 am

  I see that you may be right for FCP 5, but not for 4.5.
  I have the upgrade to 5 and have not had a chance to upgrade.
  You know the saying, “Never upgrade in the middle of a project”
  ED

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