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cutting on movement
Hi everyone this is also posted in FCP basics
I haven’t had a need to inter-cut clips on movement until now and am finding that each – and – every minor clip adjustment seems to involve rendering. is there a way around this that i’m just ignorant to?
Any information from what you’d assume is trivial all the way to genius would be very useful. For example: do products like AJA Kona or Xena replace the rendering requirements (I’m not understanding this so far) or are they something else entirely? -
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As far as FCP is concerned, cutting on movement is the same as cutting on non-movement. The software doesn’t know if the if the clips contain movement or not. Therefore, you shouldn’t have to render.
Do you normally have to render when you just do straight cuts? Does your timeline setting match those of your clips? Do you have effects or transitions on the clips? These are some things that may require rendering.
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Thanks for your time. Of course FCP can’t tell difference between movement or not. I have clips that were brought in from 24pa (AG-DVX100)and edited at 24 fps. I never actually captured with the pull-down preference until this time. So far I don’t even have ANY effects or transitions. I just brought in 2 clips and put them on 2 separate tracks. I find that each time I make an incremental change (take out 3-4 frames), i have to re-render, otherwise I can’t see a preview.
Should I put the clips on the same track? Are there any other settings(rendering or other)that might be changed to make things go faster? -
Hi SumFun
FINALLY. Got it figured out. Somehow, the 1st sequence I opened up in FCP decided to be a 29.97 video rate timeline while all my clips were in the correct 23.98… All the other sequences I created were also in the correct video rate. Once I deleted the sequence and created a new one with the correct settings Voila! No more need for rendering. Thanks for your pointers.
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Congratulations. Now you know to watch out for those speed changes.
BTW, on the DVX100, color bars are always recorded as 60i.
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