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ETT with DV Res means render all?
Hi there. Just want to figure out if you have to render everything in a DV sequence before you use Edit to Tape.
Even though we have only used colour correction and a few dissolves in our one hour sequences we find that when outputting FCP will render everything. If the playout fails then you have to do it all over again so we figure it’s better to render all first. Am I missing something here? Systems are Dual 2.7 G5s with 4 Gb of ram and Decklink cards. Makes no difference if we choose to output via the Decklink or Firewire. -
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Depends on whether or not the effects you’ve added result in a preview of playback, or a Full playback. If the latter, then you don’t have to render them. If the former.. you do.
Jerry
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In any event you should mix down your audio tracks or the ETT or Print to Video command will perform this, but not keep it for another layout. If you do it manually before you ETT, it will not do this, and just lay the sequence out.
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Shane do you have a stock answer for this? If not I think it should be a new one. I have given this advice a ton lately.
Set your sequence to full quality playback. Go to sequence > render all and sequence > render selection menus and make sure all of the option have a check mark next to them including ‘full’. As you edit hit option-r when something needs to be rendered, this way will you render as you go and not have to do one huge render at the end (especially on an hour long sequence). If all of your media in the timeline is NOT on your main media drive, this can cause major hiccups. Rendering puts the render files on your main media drive, thus making playback more smooth. Also, listen to Jerry when he says mixdown your audio. It’ll help. Select all and hit command-option-r (that’s audio mixdown). Now you are ready to ETT.
Jeremy
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Not a problem mixing down audio as it comes back to us as a stereo AIFF file from an Audio Post Facility.
Ok I will have a mess around with the settings and see if I can get it to work. I’ve never had to master DV sequences before so I’m just learning the differences here. Thanks for the advice guys. Appreciate it. -
Oh and I forgot to mention. The effects we are adding result in full playback. This is why they were missed initially as when we hit “render all” Full Quality was switched off and so the sequence would render in about 3 minutes rather than 40.
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Did some tests today and it would seem that if everything in the playback setting is set to full and safe RT it works.
Strange but true.
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