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27 hours to render???
Hello – first time posting here so please bare with me.
I just got Final Cut Pro 6.0 the other day after using it constantly in school. However, my first experience so far has been a disaster. I imported 20 minutes of footage (didn’t render it immediately) in order to crop it a little bit, scale it up, and move the center, it takes 27 hours (or at least that’s what it’s telling me.) Oh scratch that – it just increased to 31 hours!
System specs:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac7,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03
SMC Version: 1.20f4I also made sure my sequence settings and clip settings are the same.
–Clip Format–
Vid Rate: 30 fps
Frame Size: 1679 x 1049
Compressor: MPEG-4 Video
Data Rate: 1.1 MB/sec
Pixel Aspect: Square
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–Sequence Settings–
Frame Size: 1679 x 1049 (…Custom…)
Pixel Aspect Ration: (…Square…)
Field Dominance: (…None…)
Editing Timebase: 30
Compressor: (…MPEG-4 Video…)** Words surrounded by (..parentheses and periods…) are in drop-down menus.
*** The Editing Timebase in sequence settings can’t be changed.Is it supposed to take this long? Someone help! I did watch Walter Biscardi’s Secrets for Real-time Sequences, so please don’t refer me to that unless you truly think I forgot something.
Thanks!
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3 Replies
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Can’t edit MPEG-4 in Final Cut. Convert it to an editing codec (use QT Pro or Compressor) then bring it in FCP.
Sean
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Where did your footage come from?
How long of a video is it?There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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The mpeg4 issue was the one that did it. Thanks for the help!
In response to your question Dave, it’s footage taken from a screen recorder… needed it for a film to show what was on the screen. I had 20 minutes recorded of it even though I only needed about a minute….
Anyways, thanks for the help!
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