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Faster exporting in FCP.
I have a 2 hour un-rendered sequence in final cut pro that has tons of different media files, audio and graphics. The sequence is 720×480. When i try to export through compressor it says that it will take about 50 hours to export. I have a Macbookpro with 3GB of ram so i doubt thats the problem. Is there a way to export this faster? If I render it first and export it through final cut pro will that be a faster option? Please help! Thanks.
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Hi.
There are meny options beside computer and ram that may decrease your speed. External drives and how they are connected to your machine for instance. USB is dead slow i’d say. FW400 is not fast either for today. I’d go with cardbus esata and external array like CalDigit has.
Try not to have your media on system disk.For second option i’d make uncompressed MOV out of the time line and then compress it. It should be much easyer for the machine to hae tasks separately rather than having time line render and encoding in same time.
Maybe my talk has no point but it might help 🙂
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Margus
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I am not working off an external hard drive. All my media files are on my MacBookPro.
I am still having the same issue. My time line has a lot of work on it and I know its a 2 hour complex sequence but I have no idea what to do! I need it exported as soon as possible and its taking very long. I rendered the entire timeline and tried exporting as a quicktime through final cut pro and it doesn’t even get to 1% after half an hour.
Please help! Thanks.
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Hi.
I’d say generally if you read and write to the system disk which is pretty full and dead slow you can not make it run much faster.
Let it render for the whole night and see how far it goes for morning ?
50 hours might be computers wild estimation and maybe it takes just 8. You should not sit by the computer whole time and you probably sleep also 🙂It should be relatively cheap to get 2 drive esata array and cardbus card and have your video stuff on that.
As far as i know running all on laptop system drive is bad idea in the first place. Do not expect getting sports car out of family wan.
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Margus
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