• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  very slow render

  Posted by Tracy White on November 4, 2008 at 10:02 pm

  I am doing some pretty basic stuff right now and it is taking forever to render…

  Laying down various lengths of broll and photos on a timeline, laying timecode reader on broll.. that is it! It is taking about 32 minutes to render 30 minutes of video…

  Details:
  OS 10.4.11
  dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5
  4GB RAM
  FCP 6.0.4
  Kona 2
  1.2 TB storage AVAILABLE

  Clip settings:
  DVCPRO50 29.97 720×480

  Sequence settings:
  720×480 NTSC DV
  NTSC CCIR 601…
  Compressor: DVCPRO50 NTSC
  Render in 8-bit YUV

  I have already run permissions in disk utility I have already run Disk Warrior… Boot drive and everything else on that computer..

  Also, I have my project folder on the desktop and all my fcp documents on the raid..

  Anyone please have any suggestions on what I can do or what I am not doing??? Hope this was enough info..

  Thanks for all your help.
  Tracy

  Tracy White replied 17 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
• 5 Replies

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  Jaap Verdenius

  November 5, 2008 at 9:20 am

  1. Is your sequence set to unlimited RT (RT setting, upper left corner of sequence window)?
  2. What is it you are rendering? It is probably not necessary to render the Timecode Reader effect. In the Sequence>Render All menu you can turn off ‘Full’.
  3. Rendering photos may be the source of the problem. If you are using static photos, you could nest a part of each photo in a subsequence, render that and copy it in the sequence for as long as you need it.

  Jaap
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  Tracy White

  November 5, 2008 at 4:11 pm

  Thanks for responding… to answer your questions:

  Yes, it is set to RT.

  I am creating a QT for the producer with a timecode burn-in as a reference… Does it not need to render before I create the QT? I thought it did need to… if not, wow, that would save a ton of time…

  and yes, I agree with the photos.. they are very large, on purpose of course.. 1200dpi, so I can zoom very far in.. but when I did a quick test and removed the tc reader… it took no time at all to render the photos.

  Tracy
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  Jaap Verdenius

  November 5, 2008 at 5:58 pm

  No you don’t have to render before export. Actually there is some kind of bug in the Export to Quicktime Movie routine that sometimes causes rendered parts of my timeline to show up with the text “unrendered” on the gradient. When it happens I need to get things unrendered in order to export properly. It is sort of against common sense… I would advice to export via Compressor, which is more reliable in my opinion.

  The fact that the TC reader effect would take much render time is a bit unexpected… I use it regularly, it plays realtime without any problem and renders very quickly. But there is an effect setting where you can tweak the background transparency and that indeed causes substantial render times. Perhaps that is the case?

  Jaap
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  Tracy White

  November 5, 2008 at 6:24 pm

  interesting… Yeah, I have never had this much trouble with rendering that effect..

  I will check on the opacity, thank you so much for all your thoughts.

  Tracy

  Tracy White
  Editor
  Wyoming PBS
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  Tracy White

  November 5, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  Hey, I just checked… I have the “Ignore Opacity (Faster)” checked… in the filters tab of the tc reader.

  just fyi.

  Tracy White
  Editor
  Wyoming PBS

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