disadvantages to editing with the “unlimited RT”???

[Tom Wolsky]

Dropped frames in video and audio during playback. The more complex the timeline the more you’ll get dropped frames to the point at which it’s unviewable, but you can play through Motion projects, LT projects, animations, anything.

All the best,

Tom

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[Scott Davis]

Your rendering days are not over. Lessened yes, over no. There is no drawback that I know of.

[Micah Ginn]

gotcha. thanks for the help!
micah

[Micah Ginn]

gotcha, makes sense.

thanks for your help,

micah

[Tim Baker]

One thing that I have found…to keep from so many “dropped frames”…go under the Sequence menu to Render Only then click Mixdown this does something to your audio…not sure what, but it has helped in the past if I was getting a lot of the dropped frames.

[Kevin Monahan]

Tim, it mixes down your audio.

FCP has two modes:
Unlimited RT for working with FCP when roughing in FX
Safe RT when you need to check quality

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[Bret Williams]

I haven’t touched SafeRT since it was released. SafeRT is no different from Unlimited RT except unlimited will TRY to play as best it can. Whereas safeRT gives you much less real time than your processor can actually handle. It plays it “safe.”

Since it’s best to render everything anyway before output, I always work in unlimited.

[Andy Mees]

ony thing to be wary of eith Unlimited RT is if you are playing out live from the timeline.
for example, if you use a Matrox MXO or some such to bypass the conform process, and crash record to a deck or play live to a sat. feed, then you need to remember that your effects are unrendered.

[Bret Williams]

Be wary of it with SafeRT as well. I don’t care what the timeline says about not needing to render things like jpegs, it always does. Render everything. Mix down everything. Output via either print to tape or edit to tape.