Can’t get my timeline to render.

[Jerry Alto]

Carlos- Try Command (apple) A to select everything in the timeline then Command R- Render. If that doesn’t work leave everything selected and go to Sequence menu and try Render Selection>Video. If that doesn’t work try Render All>video. One of those things should throw it into render mode.

Hope this helps.

Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP5 Studio
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1

[Carlos Castro]

Thanks Jerry. I have already done all the things you mentioned. This is why I’m frustrated with this software. The same things you mentioned I do at work with Avid. I bought the Apple FCP system for a business I’m starting at home. I was able to render before, don’t know what I did. I was always having to render every clip, every edit, despite using the easy set up feature. Now it won’t render my video. I can hear it playing on the timeline but I see a blue screen with the word render on it. If I scroll with my mouse on the timeline I see my video, any suggestions? thanks

[Todd Reid]

sounds like you have some corruption.
do a search to find out how to trash your preferences.

I assume you have check marks in the appropriate places under
sequenece/render/render all/render only

Hang in there, I was on the AVID for several years, and fought the changeover, but I’ll never go back. I had several problems on regular basis with AVID too. We work on computers, and guess what, computers have (and develop) problems.

Consult t he cow, listen to the gurus, and move on to finish your project so you can get to the important part…..invoicing!

[Todd Reid]

Just thought of this too. You could have some problems with render corruption.

delete all the renders for this project, then re-render everything.

[Tom Matthies]

Two things. Actually three. Make sure that under the Sequence>Render All pull-down menu that you have check marks next to all the items that you want to render. When in doubt, check them all and see if it allows you to render your time line. Item two; Option R will render everything in your timeline without having to select the clips first. And three; unless you are layering a lot of effects you shouldn’t be getting the blue render screen at all. Check what you have your RT effects set to. Try Dynamic & Unlimited just for grins and see what happens. Also, make sure that your Sequence settings match those of your source material. Final Cut works differently than Avid. Avid generally converts all it’s incoming media to a single codec, depending on which Avid model you use. Final Cut does not. If you sequence settings match those of your source video, you shouldn’t have to render at all…unless you are layering several layers together.
I too w am an old Avid guy going back to the early 90’s in Chicago. Final Cut is not Avid and will take some “unlearning” to master but I prefer it over Avids these days. We are still running a pair of Symphonys that I still edit on from time to time, but for shear speed of getting things done, you can’t beat FCP in my opinion. Stick with it. It will be worth it.
Tom

[Carlos Castro]

Thanks to all for the responses. I finally got it to work. I did it in the pull down sequence options. I tried that yesterday and it didn’t work, go figure. I obviously missed something. Does anyone know if theirs a podcast some where that will run through a basic setup. No matter whether I use DV tape, imported Stills, or QT movie files, I seem to always have to render the clips when I pull them into the project, then when I used them on the timeline, I need to render them again. If I make any adjustments or changes [Transitions, splice edits, etc…] I need to render that section as well. I expect rendering but not with every key stroke. I’m on hold now with apple support for FCP, going on 1 hr. LOL, this is what it has been like for me,lol. I haven’t given up on FCP, I had some trouble originally with Avid as well. Thanks again all for the support and help.

[Jerry Alto]

Carlos- Good, you made it over the render stumbling block. You have a codec mismatch between your clips and your timeline. FCP is extremely codec sensitive. Easy setups are your friend. As soon as you launch FCP trash the sequence that is in the browser. Go to easy setups and select the codec you want to digitize AND edit in. Now everything you digitize and edit in your new sequences will match and you wont need to render.

Hope this helps.

Jerry

G5 Dual 3GB Ram
FCP5 Studio
External 1 TB SATA Raid 0
Kona LH, Second system w AJA ioLA
Sony Z-1

[Zi yun Wong]

i am using FCP HD. It was fine until i had reinstalled my computer and FCP. I cannot render the files in timeline. I need serious advice!!!. THanks