• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Sequence referencing old render files

  Posted by Paul Griffiths on March 7, 2008 at 3:29 pm

  Hi guys any help would be appreciated

  versions are: FCP 5.1.4 QT 7.3.1 G5 with OSX 10.4.11 and a Blackmagic Extreme with 6.6 drivers. Media is DV50 sitting on an XRAID shared via fibre with MetaSAN.

  Whilst re-versioning previously edited and rendered footage on a sequence we cut a clip to make it shorter. When we played this part of the sequence back it did not show the newly cut footage, but rather the footage we previously had, as if it was reading it from a render file rather than the actual newly edited sequence. The render bar at the top remained blue over the timeline where we’d just cut media from – even though there was nothing on the timeline to render!

  We’ve tried the usual trashing of preferences, reboot and restart. Trashing the render files and re-rendering the timeline gets around it as a workaround however this isn’t much use on a sequence that takes a few hours to render…

  Has anyone encountered this before?

  thanks guys…

  Paul Griffiths replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Hamm

  March 7, 2008 at 5:51 pm

  Yep, and there are a few things. One, save a backup of your FCP project as it is now to another drive just as a precaution.

  Then, double click on the clip in the timeline so that you throw it up in the viewer. If you’ve only got one new clip, this is simple, if you have more than one new clip area that you want rendered, just repeat it.

  In the viewer, go to the basic motion tab and open the Drop Shadow settings. Click the checkbox to activate the drop shadow – this will usually cause a render to be needed. Now, change something else in the timeline – even something as simple as dragging this same footage beyond the end of your sequence. Then go back to the viewer, uncheck the Drop Shadow checkbox, and back in the timeline, delete the added footage. You should still need a render for the areas that you’ve chosen.

  If that doesn’t work, you can always apply a LiveType title over the top of it, render it, delete the title, and re-render the bit.

  Have a great one!

  kev~!

  Kevin Hamm
  Video, Web, Print and coloring books.
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  Paul Griffiths

  March 10, 2008 at 3:27 pm

  Thanks Kev,

  that at least helps with re-rendering single clips. Anyone else know what might be causing this?

  Paul

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