Constantly Rendering

[David Roth weiss]

What variety of HD footage are you editing, and what type of media drives is your video residing in and playing from?

Constant rendering typically is indicative of sequence settings and media type not matching.

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[Kyle Ferris]

I’m working with HDV footage and .tif photo files and I’m saving it all to a removable 500GB, CalDigit SATA RAID drive.

Thanks for the response

[Shane Ross]

#28 Having to render every clip in the timeline

Shane’s Stock Answer #28: When I put a clip in the timline, I have to render it before it will play. Why?

Your clip settings MUST match your timeline settings. If you have DV/NTSC material, you need a DV/NTSC timeline. The frame rate, audio rate and dimensions (4:3, 16:9) all need to match exactly. In Final Cut Pro 6, this is easy, because when you drop a clip into the timeline, it asks if you want to set up the timeline to match the settings of the first clip you drag into it. Click YES and you are ready to go.

However, in FCP 5.1 and earlier, it is a bit trickier.

The most important thing you need to do is properly set up your project from the start, and the best way to do this is to choose a setting from the Easy Setups, located under the Final Cut Pro menu.

Once you do this, you’ll need to create a new sequence. This is because the sequence that is already in your new project is setup for the typical default setting of DV/NTSC, or for the settings of your last project, which might not match what you are currently working with. So delete SEQUENCE 1 and create a new sequence:

This new sequence will contain the settings you chose in the Easy Setup menu, and should match the format you captured.

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[Jeff Greenberg]

It sounds like a mismatch between your timeline and your raw (video) clip.

I can’t recall if it was FCP 5 or 6 where FCP would automatically ‘switch’ the timeline to match the footage on the VERY FIRST clip to hit the timeline. Try this method first:
Create a new timeline (nothing special), drop a video clip into it…and it should offer to switch the timeline to match.

If not? We need the timeline and the video clips to match
Hit CMD-Shift-N; and FCP will give you every type of timeline you can create.
I’ll assume it’s a HDV 1080i 29.97 (Pick that.) If you drop footage in it, it should just ‘work’ if it was matched correctly.

Best,

Jeff G

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[David Roth weiss]

[Jeff Greenberg] “I can’t recall if it was FCP 5 or 6 where FCP would automatically ‘switch’ the timeline to match the footage on the VERY FIRST clip to hit the timeline.”

Sorry, but that came our way in Ver. 6.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

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[Jeff Greenberg]

[David Roth Weiss] “Sorry, but that came our way in Ver. 6.”
Don’t be sorry! Collective memory and all that!

Best,

Jeff G

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