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Abnormally Long Rendering
Very simple things are taking a long time to render.
I have Final Cut Pro 5 and a PowerBook G4. I use an external hard drive with plenty of space (80G).
I’m working with HD video and I put in five seconds of stationery text and it takes more than five minutes to render. More complicated things like working with key frames take over 20 minutes to render. I know from experience that this is way too long and has become an issue in the past few months.So, why is this simple rendering taking so long?
And what can I do about it?Thanks
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6 Replies
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Hi,
There are a lot of reasons, some of which may have to do with the codec you’re using, but the most important is the processor. Lets say you have the fastest Powerbook that was made, a 1.7 gHz G4. On primatelabs.ca it rates at 859. The fastest computer, an 8 core Mac Pro, is literally 10x’s faster at 8565. You can check out other ratings here:
https://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2008/06/mac-performance-june-2008/
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thanks
yeah, I do have a laptop from early 2006. Is there any way to speed up rendering. I have a friend with almost the identical laptop (same processing) and his rendering seems to go much quicker.
Also, is there any standard of how fast certain things SHOULD render (or optimally render) on Final Cut? -
Well, you said you are working with HD but not what format of HD. Also what hard drives are you using? And do your sequence settings match your clip settings?
Shane
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[David Distenfeld] “I know from experience that this is way too long and has become an issue in the past few months. “
If you’re editing the same way now as you have been for the last several months using the same hardware and with the same type of footage, project file sizes, media hard drive space etc. and you’ve been experiencing a gradual reduction in performance then it’s most likely a system maintenance issue.
– Repair permissions on your startup drive.
– Get DiskWarrior to rebuild the directories on all your hard drives.
– Use a system maintenance program like Cocktail to get rid of bloated log and cache folders that are slowing down the Mac OS.There are some high mileage FCP houses that wipe their system drives every 6 months and re-install all the pro apps for the very reason you’ve described.
– Don
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As Don mentioned system maintenance is important, as is the codec and sequence settings. This article was immensely helpful to me for the settings that ‘should’ be the fastest way to work with HD:
https://edu.moviola.com/hdv_prores#new_easysetups
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I was having the same problem when I trashed my FCP preferences. I noticed every time I put a simple filter like a glow or whatever it was giving me the red render bar. I switched my RT from safe to unlimited and that seem to solve the problem.
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