clips coming un-rendered

[Simon Ubsdell]

This is a serious piece of advice:

Don’t render, ever, unless you absolutely have to in order to be able to navigate your edit.

Exporting an unrendered timeline is many times faster than rendering it before export.

Rendering is very slow – and generally undesirable. One the many reasons is that your renders folder can’t quickly get clogged up with an impact on performance.

Simon Ubsdell
http://www.tokyo-uk.com

[Rich Hawksworth]

Thanks for the advice – is it necessary to tidy-up the render folder if I’ve already done many renders? My performance, as you might have assumed from my OP, is miserable.

[Steve Connor]

Simon is right, only render when you have too, don’t use background rendering and use the File>Delete Event Render files command for unused render files regularly.

Also trash preferences and repair permissions every now and again for good measure!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Professional”
Adrenalin Television

[Mark Morache]

and put your hands on your head, twirl three times and click your ruby slippers together.

Yikes.

I am having the unrender bug hit me frequently as well. I wish we could figure out what’s getting unrendered and why.

I agree with the no-rendering plan. Since I’m editing on my MBP I frequently need to render things in order to see them, so I selectively render bits of the timeline.

There should be a low-res render that works quickly and gives us a sort of proxy render.

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Don’t live your life in a secondary storyline.

Mark Morache
FCPX/FCP7/Xpri/Avid
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[Bill Davis]

Where are you guys keeping your projects and events?

In my workflow, I con’t keep any of them on my primary drive. I use Firewire 800 drives to hold my events and projects and just keep the App on my laptop. That way all the render files, transcoded media and proxys disappear when I detach the drive. After I finish projects, I MOVE them to external multi-terabyte storage drives. Mounting the drives, makes the projects and events on them “come alive” in the X interface, but my root drive stays pretty clear.

That plus the “disk image” thing for field footage storage seems to be working really well for me – with no need to flush too much other than doing a render queue flush now and again to reclaim space on the Firewire drive.

YMMV.

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