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long render, can stop?
I have a 30 minute show, (five, six min. pieces or acts). All have to be rendered. (Magic Bullet and other filters).
Question: After five hours into the eleven hour render, If I stop after about five hours will I have about half of my files rendered? Or will all be lost? Would it help to divide long shows into sequences to render?
I decided last night to not to stop and went to bed. This AM computer asleep and can’t wake up. Force quit. Open FCP file. All not rendered (red bars). Can’t reconnect media. Import render files into FCP and force them into sync with the soundtrack on the timeline. That works but only could find about half of the render files needed. Maybe the Mac went to sleep when I did. But the render files I could import look great and where easy to sync up. Don’t know where the rest of them went. Now I’m rendering a sequence at a time–about two hours per sequence.
Thanks for any help/info.
G4, Dual 1 gig, 1 gig ram, 10.3.8, FCP 4.5, 600 gig storage (some firewire, some SATA)
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3 Replies
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In general, you can stop a render at most any point and FCP will “keep” the rendered section(s) and “pick up where it left off” when you start to render again.
If your FCP “froze” overnight, then the connection to any renders were likely lost.
Best is to start again.
(First, go to the Mac “System Preferences” and turn OFF any “sleep” settings.)
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Hello Matte,
Thanks for the info. I’m not use to these long render times. eleven hours surprised me.
Take care,
RichardPS: Thanks for the ‘no sleep’ hint.
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Bullet is a render hog, so you have to deal with that. I suggest G Film over bullet for render times.
Next time you Cancel a Render, do a Save. That way if you get a crash, at least that render file will not be lost.
Kevin Monahan
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