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After Rendering All, Print to Video renders again taking the same amount of time
Is this normal or is the Print to Video process confused about where to check for existing rendered files?
jmf
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12 Replies
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Make sure that the sequence’s render settings are all set to high. Sort of sounds like you are rendering a lower quality, and when printing to video, FCP is rendering in a high quality…? If you perform an audio mixdown before you use the print to video or edit to tape command, you shouldn’t see even that render bar when you involk either of the commands.
Jerry
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If you mean the drop down menu in the left part of the sequence, it was set to “High.”
jmf
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IIRC (but CouldBeWrong), Print To Video has always required the creation of a completely new media file that includes the lead-in heads, slate, countdown, program content, and tails. That’s why most of us simply roll the recorder and then hit play on the timeline.
I haven’t bothered with Print To Tape since Apple broke the FW timecode functions for the lower-end DSR-11, those rat bastards.
bogiesan
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So, for purposes of Print to Video, I really doesn’t matter if the timeline is rendered or not, true?
jmf
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I have found the culprit of the “re-render for lay to tape” to be clips that are disabled. I took a sequence that was fully rendered out, everything set to high, ect ect. and even made sure my lay to tape wasn’t creating bars tone or slates… and I got the wasted minutes of “building video” for EACH time I layed it off. That gets annoying when you need to make 5 masters!
I don’t know how I figured it out.. but I went through and deleted all off my disabled (grayed out) clips. Hit print to tape.. and beleive it or not.. it just started right away!
Give it a try!
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That’s interesting. Did you find any difference in the rendering option used? Do you use “Render All” “Both?”
jmf
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In your sequence>render settings menu. make sure that all of the options are checked, including full. This will make sure that FCP is rendering even the real time effects. This is a good habit to get into. be sure to check the render all and render selection menus.
Jeremy
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“Full” was not checked. I will try it out tomorrow. Thanks
jmf
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That’s probably what it is. Even though it’s full resolution, FCP likes those rendered for output to insure that it won’t drop frames. This way, FCP is actually laying off hard media instead of a real time “vapor media” effect.
Hope it works out for you.
Jeremy
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Well it was weird. After checking “Full” in Render All and running “Print Video” it took twice as long. I did fail to render so the Print Video process went through the first time and rendered the sequence, which took a long time since it was doing a “Full” render, and then another time (even longer than the first) before it was ready to send it to the camera.
jmf
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