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Forced to Render Timeline–all the time
Hello,
I have searched the forum to see if anyone else is complaining about this problem in FCP6 but have yet to find the answer, It seems that since we upgraded from FCP HD a month ago (late, I know) we are having to do a full render on EVERY SINGLE timeline our editor brings in. Strange, because we are working off the same external hard drive the editor cut from, so any render files should be there and hook up, no? Also, this is rendering on (yellow) RT effects and clips that have no need of a render!
Another issue we have encountered is we were under the impression that one of the fantastic upgrades in FCP6 was the ability to edit clips with different compressions on the same timeline. On one project, when a clip with Animation compression was brought into a DV NTSC timeline, it needed a full render just like the older version.
Are we missing something here? Are our settings incorrect?
Thanks for your help.
Talia
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4 Replies
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[outis] “On one project, when a clip with Animation compression was brought into a DV NTSC timeline, it needed a full render just like the older version.”
Animation codec still requires render.
As for you other issues. Sequence Settings don’t match your Clip Settings.
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Pretty basic stuff, really. But you have fallen for Apple’s hype without diving into the fine print.
Animation requires rendering because of the lossless nature ofthe media file being transcoded live to your sequence settings (which are probably highly compressed such as DV) and the fact that Animation carries an alpha channel that must be processed, too.
The only way you will get around this is to have hardware support for a proprietary alpha codec.
bogiesan
RTFM
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Ok, the animation codec render makes sense. But can anyone tell me if they have had the same problem of timelines not hooking up to renders? Just happened again, the whole timeline had been completely rendered. Unhooked the drive to transfer some media, then hooked it back up…must be rerendered. The render files are not hooking up and it is not giving an option when opening the project in order to relink them. None of us here are experts, but we’ve been editing on FCP for years and have never had this issue.
Can anyone please help?
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I’ve never had any luck ever getting FCP to reconnect to render files properly. Next time you have to disconnect a drive I’d be sure to save your project, quit FCP then disconnect it. Once render files go offline it never seems to work reconnecting them manually.
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