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Sundance crunch!
Outputting chapters to my feature length Documentary, finally.
When I create a new project and copy the already rendered chapter
into it, I have to re-render it all over again.Any workaround to output just the Nested chapter instead?
Thnx.
G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Pro 4.5HD, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2 -
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So you’re dealing with nested sequences, each as a “chapter.” Did you render the nests as a nest, or as each individual sequence? In other words, if you created a sequence and rendered it, then placed that sequence into multiple timelines (seqs) as a nested sequence then the render would remain. But if you placed the nested seq into a timeline, then redered it, the render remains with the sequence, not the nest. Render files are attributed to the sequence. Don’t know if that helps. Of course if you’re losing renders check and make sure your nested seq settings match the new sequence. But that’s a given.
But you were wondering about outputting workaround – of course you can just output from the old project. Mark in, mark out, and edit to tape each individual chapter. Not sure why you made a new project instead of a new bin or sequence but it shouldn’t matter.
If you can clarify exactly what you’re doing with seqs, nests, and projects then that’ll help.
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All chapters are each nested in the overall sequence timeline.
Can I render an open nest/chapter directly to compressor with
out the rest of the nests/chapters exporting?Thnx.
G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Pro 4.5HD, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2 -
Not sure what you mean by an open nest. But to export from anywhere you mark an in and an out and export.
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Not sure if this helps (you’re a little vague about what you’re doing – ‘chapters’ makes me assume you’re making a DVD project) but you’d be much better off exporting each of these sections as a quicktime movie and dropping them back into a timeline. If you want to stitch them together, you’ll find it easier. The QT export will be quick anyway, and subsequent Compressor exports to DVDSP (if that’s what you’re doing) would be quicker.
By the by, I always try to avoid nested projects – they cause these problems all the time, play havoc with media manager, and leave you constantly re-opening sub-sequences for no reason. Use a master timeline, and if you need to ‘nest’ something for resizing/motion etc, render it off instead and place it into a new, simpler timeline – keeping the original for any changes. You’ll avoid all this re-rendering nonsense as well. I’ve also seen nesting cause the ‘Out of Memory’ error that can cause you to revert to a previous version of a project – I always assumed this was due to a sort of ‘divide by zero’ calculating error that nesting caused, although I’ve never had that confirmed by anyone.
But that’s just my 2c. Export each finished section as QT – it’ll work out much better for you.
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