• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  rendering what?

  Posted by Nate Abramow on January 25, 2006 at 8:10 pm

  …my question my be elemetary but i’ve asked four people in the office now and we cannot come up with an answer…i don’t think it can be done…but nobody knows…

  …the case is long and lengthly but what it boils down to is this…

  …we have two different video sources at two different resolutions…one is a huge screen capture from a computer (1024×768) with bizarre codec from the screen capture tool. The codec cannot be changed – the codex is not native to FCP…

  …we have sd dv footage..

  …we have huge screen capture footage with a random codex and then dv footage – we need to edit the together in real time – we cannot play the footage on the same timeline together – we are forced to render it – it’s six hours of lectures – is there anyway to “preview” the two together or work around the two formats without hours of render time and/or hours of compressing one of the formats?

  …i’ve never heard of such a thing…

  …i can’t even think of a workaround…

  …just hours of rendering…

  any advice?

  thank in advance,
  nate

  Nate Abramow replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  January 25, 2006 at 8:16 pm

  You cannot play two different codecs in one timeline without having to render one of them.

  My suggestion is to convert the screen grab footage to DV. Export to DV/NTSC thru quicktime by opening the clip and going FILE>EXPORT.

  Yes, this may take a while. This is the drawback for using footage that is an odd format. And yes, the screen capture is an odd format.

  Shane Ross
  Alokut Productions
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Nate Abramow

  January 25, 2006 at 8:44 pm

  Thanks Shane,

  I didn’t think there was any possible way but the client said it was possible to “preview” or work around the footage. I was not aware of this in FCP. He suggested sony vagas (don’t know about that i would think it’d be the same situation although it’s possiable it’s a multi format system) but FCP is what we use and that’s what we have. So we knocked our heads together at the office for awhile. Then we had a bunch of “what if…” types ideas…

  …those usually don’t go anywhere…

  …what can’t be done can’t be done…

  …thanks again for confirming my answer…

  …off to render…

  Thanks Again,
  Nate

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