• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP on a Macbook Pro

  Posted by Frederico Silva on March 19, 2010 at 4:13 pm

  Hi there

  I have a Macbook Pro with 2.4Ghz Core2duo, 2GB ram.
  I have a sequence with 920×720 with a video(originally 1920×1080)
  the Video has 1min and 21 sec.
  And just a few effects like: 3 color balance filter, 1 -Sharpen, 3 Magic Bullet filters(LS bleach, LS Nº 85, MisFire Vignette), Color corrector 3way, Frames(Magic Bullet de-interlace filter)
  it takes like 10 hours to export to quicktime(current settings)

  I dont have experience in editing HD, and using color filters. Is this a acceptable rendering time?
  What is your experience with a similar system and FCP color adjustments or AE in terms of rendering time?

  Thanks

  Fred

  Sam Ellens replied 16 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  March 19, 2010 at 5:32 pm

  You said the dimensions, but NOT the codec. What codec? DVCPRO HD? ProRes?

  [frederico silva] “I have a sequence with 920×720 with a video(originally 1920×1080) “

  Those are VERY odd numbers. Not a normal ratio for FCP. If the sequence settings and footage doesn’t match something you find in the Easy Setups, then yes, they can take a long time. But also, you have a LOT of render intensive filters, like FRAMES. That does take time too. You have a lot of factors that are adding up to a long render time.

  Shane

  

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  Sam Ellens

  March 20, 2010 at 12:33 am

  The only 960×720 footage I’ve seen came from DVCPro HD 720, but I rarely get 720 footage.

  and I love that this is considered a small number of filters by some. renders take a long time, and they take even longer on a macbook pro.

  Sam Ellens
  Intern – Zamasti Films
  4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

  My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB

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