Are flop’s really that complicated?

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

If you encounter what you think is a “too-long-render”, did you ever stop it part-way in and then start the render again.

I do this, and many times find that it will jump to a much faster render speed (no, and not just because it has a “shorter way to go”.)

This is actually MY further question about this.

Does anyone else encounter these “dual-speed” renders?

BTW, if you’ll consider that a flop repositions each and every pixel it might take a bit of time to render.

And weekends have a rather low-readership on the COW, so the answers may be a bit sparse.
(Probably due to fewer cowhands sittin’ around waitin’ for RENDERS to finish!)

[Gary Adcock]

[Matte] “BTW, if you’ll consider that a flop repositions each and every pixel it might take a bit of time to render.”

Also note that you can do this 2 different ways – via the motion tab (faster) or the flop filter (slower)..

and welcome to 10 bit 1080 footage — without spending $100K on hardware it is really hard to get it in realtime, but do your offline in DVCproHD – much better than going the SD route.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[David Rowan]

Yes, I get the dual speed renders, too.

Now, I’m one of the anal-compulsives who actually quits one program before opening another (unlesss I need them together). I still can’t help wondering if the little gerbil inside the shiny box is thinking about something else, and when I quit and restart a render it gets her attention again.

One thing thats messed me up; if I do a “Render All” and there is something outside of my view on the timeline that has to get rendered before the bit I’m working on. So I’ll quit the 11 minute render after a minute or two and “Hey, You didn’t do anything!”…then its “Oh wait…thats what you’ve been working on.”

DWR

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

[David Rowan] “One thing thats messed me up; if I do a “Render All” and there is something outside of my view on the timeline that has to get rendered before the bit I’m working on. So I’ll quit the 11 minute render after a minute or two and “Hey, You didn’t do anything!”…then its “Oh wait…thats what you’ve been working on.””

Sure, that happens all the time.
The nice thing about FCP is that even if you DO (accidentally or intentionally) stop a render, it KEEPS what you’ve done up to the point of the stop. So you don’t lose any time for stopping.

But there are many times, when there is only one effect chosen or there IS only one un-rendered effect, and it seems to take eons to render, that if I stop it and immediately start the render again and FCP then takes off like a rabbit.
I can have various other apps open, or not, doesn’t seem to matter.
(I think that just alerts “Mac” the Gerbil to the fact that I want my render… NOW!!)