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Amazed at render mgmt – and a downside
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In looking deeper into the library bundle, I think the render files are actually attributed to events, not the Library. Within the library is a folder for each event, and within that a folder for each project, as well as a separate folder for render files. So the render files reside outside of the project, but within the event. My guess is that if you put your duplicate sequence into a different event within the same library, this new render file efficiency would be lost and each would have it’s own render cache within that event. But I haven’t tested it nor plan to. I don’t know why anyone would have separate versions of a project in separate events anyway, but some seem to use events more as organizational bins than others. I tend to have an event for sequences, and an event for media. But even that could be accomplished with folders and keywords.
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That’s great if it does. I used PremiereCC on a render heavy thing this fall and didn’t notice this behavior, but kudos if it does. It should.
So maybe the only app that still stinks in this regard is FCP legacy. As well it should. It’s a 5 year old app. As I’ve said before, one may not like FCP X, but if you’re still using FCP legacy, geez it’s time to move on to something else. Pick one. Of course this is a broad based generalization and I’m sure there are perfectly good reasons to still use FCP 7. But not 6. Can we all agree that FCP 6 is done? 🙂
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I just meant the render management. Not the whole app! EditDV, was just a cute little NLE that mimicked Avid’s layout, but none of the functionality like FCP legacy did. I’d hope that edit was light years ahead!
EditDV did have only a couple things I missed when I got FCP. You could digitize in time lapse off of tape. You could tell it to capture every Nth frame. Capture every 3rd frame, or every 100th frame, etc. So great when drive space was a premium and someone shot for an hour and you wanted it to take 30 seconds.
It also output to the client monitor frame by frame as it rendered. So the instant there was a screwup in your composite, you’d see it. After effects can do this and I thought Avid could too. Very useful.
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Autodesk Smoke also has great render management. Frame based rendering, change, undo back to rendered.
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