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How to unrender clips
If you want to render clips piecemeal (in dv sd) until you are done with a sequence, then unrender everything and re-render in Prores–how do you do the unrendering from within FCP?
And a followup Q: is there a way to find a render file on one’s hard drives by clicking on a rendered clip?
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10 Replies
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Your render files are located where you tell FCP to put them.
System Settings under Final Cut pro menu.
Now, when you edit is locked. Go into Sequence settings and change the compressor setting to what you want.
Then you have to re-render all @ that point. Just make sure you are rendering all.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Thanks. Will the clips render anew, i.e. from the original media files, in this process so that this will not be a second re-digitization? I seem to recall there is a single control click on the timeline that will unrender.
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HI Walter,
Once you choose a NEW codec for your sequence, FCP will update and un-render everything that will need to be render with the new codec. So anything that will need rendering will be an original render.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
Television Production -
If you’re asking how to delete all of your renders at once, just use the Render Manager within FCP to select which you’d like to delete and it’ll get rid of them all at once. Never delete render files directly from the actual folder on the drive, manually. Especially if you’re ever going to open that project again. World of hurt!
Tony Brittan
Owner, DP, Editor, Post, VO Artist – Island Shore Productions -
Hmm. What happens when you do it by just trashing the files from the HD?
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Well, when I did it, it completely hosed a project I was working on for national broadcast. Everytime I opened the project, it would look for the renders and I couldn’t get it to “forget” them. Then, every project I tried to open…or even just open FCP at all, it would look for them. I ended up doing about two days of trouble shooting and was able to get things working again. One of which was by deleting all of my thumbnail cache files. But every time that client wants a revision on that spot, I cringed because opening it would bring the problems back. I had to do a new project and re-build that commercial to stop the issues.
Bottom line is that you should always use tools within FCP to do things that FCP is involved with or you’ll be in for trouble. Lesson learned the hard way!
Tony Brittan
Owner, DP, Editor, Post, VO Artist – Island Shore Productions -
Hmm. I’ve trashed renders on the desktop (iMac OS 10.5, currently FCP 7) for years. Guess I’ve been lucky. Thanks for letting me learn the easy way.
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Not clear how to do this. My FCP 7 Render Manager allows me to “include render files” when deleting media, but I don’t see how to delete ONLY render files. At best, for me the Render Manager is ALWAYS scary.
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Tools > Render Manager Once there, click to put a check mark in the column where it says “remove”, then click ok. Dialog comes up saying “this operation will flush your undo queue. Would you like to proceed?”. Click yes. This deletes the selected render files and FCP remembers you’ve done so. It’s the proper way to do it. If your not seeing this, you’re probably not doing it correctly. I’m on FCP 6 but I haven’t heard og it changing in 7.
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Ah, veddy nice. (The RENDER Manager, not the MEDIA Manager, of course.) And now……please see the next thread: Renegade Renders
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