• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  really slow prores render

  Posted by Matt Devino on May 8, 2008 at 8:02 pm

  I’m running a 3.0GHZ 8 core mac pro, and I just completed a project that was 1080i ProRes HQ. We need to make a SD version to our post house to get output to digibeta. I dropped a self contained HD quicktime movie into an SD ProResHQ timeline and when I render it’s taking an hour to do a 30second chunk. When I drop this same 30 seconds into compressor it takes a minute and a half when using the virtual cluster on my machine. I know the virtual cluster will use the processors more efficiently, but this is a major difference in time. Any idea why Final Cut is taking so long to do this simple format conversion render? Thanks in advance.

  David Roth weiss replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  David Roth weiss

  May 8, 2008 at 8:11 pm

  Matt,

  FCP, because its optimized for displaying video rather than simply exporting video, is both rendering and exporting, a two step process….

  David Roth Weiss
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