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Does this sound right
First, welcome to Chris Poisson at the top of the page. And thanks to Tom Wolsky for all his contributions.
I have been working from HDV source material lately, which I bring in through Kona 3 as ProRess 1280×720. It seems that my exports out of FCP now are taking longer than they did before, when I was working with 720p native material. It’s not an exorbitant amount of time I’m talking about so maybe I’m just getting impatient…
I am running FCP 6.06 on an Octocore with a RAID array and 8 gigs of memory. My sequence settings are 1280×720, PAR square, just like the video material. I export “at current settings” and a 5 minute piece takes 8-9 minutes to export. As I say, it’s not long to wait but does it sound normal? It just seems long to me and I wonder if there’s one little setting that’s slowing it down.
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That doesn’t sound too bad to me, but you might try doing a prefs trash, permissions repair and clean your caches. Then do a restart.
Oh and thanks for the welcome!
Have as good a day as you can.
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Thanks Chris. I’ll do that. I already do regular trashing of the prefs and it’s time for me to repair permissions. But I’m afraid that I’m not informed about cleaning the cache. I thought I knew most of this stuff! And that sounds pretty elementary. What is that?
Thanks.
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Is everything fully rendered? Are you exorting a reference or self contained? You are editing in a Prores timeline, right?
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Hi Jeremy,
Yes, everything is fully rendered. I am exporting self-contained. I did a brief test at exporting non self-contained but it seemed to be taking just as long so I went back to self-contained. And yes the timeline is ProRes.All good questions!
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Are you sure everything is rendered? Is the full option check in the render options?
It shouldn’t take that long, which seems to indicate a mismatch or re-encode.
Jeremy
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I use Leopard Cache Cleaner, it’s a free program.
Have as good a day as you can.
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How full is that RAID, Ron? And can you double check / list for us the full details of your sequence settings … might be something in there you’ve missed or that will ring a bell for someone else.
Best
Andy -
Thanks for all the thoughts. My settings are listed below and I do appreciate any advice about whether any of them look inappropriate. First, I’ll note that I noticed that my Video Processing settings were to render in YUV. I changed that to RGB and, in fact, that did speed up the movie export. It’s now taking about 6 minutes to export a 4 minute 720p video.
I’ll also note in answer to Jeremy’s question that “full” is checked in the render options. And my RAID shows a capacity of 2.73 TB with 1.43 TB available. Here are my settings:
Video settings shown in the Browser as 1280×720, 59.94, Apple ProRes 422.
Sequence settings are 1280×720 (HDTV 720p (16×9), P.A.R.: square, timebase 59.94, compressor: ProRes 422, Quality: 100%.
Video Preferences/Render Controls show “Frame Rate 100% of Sequence Timeline.” Resolution 100%. And Codec: “Same as Sequence codec.”Anything look odd?
Thanks again.
Ron
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[Ron Craig] “First, I’ll note that I noticed that my Video Processing settings were to render in YUV. I changed that to RGB and, in fact, that did speed up the movie export.”
You should be in YUV. I don’t see how changing to RGB will speed up an export as you will have to rerender.
FIle > Export > Quicktime Movie.
Jeremy
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Yeah, I figured YUV was right but some of my research about this indicated that I might be better in RGB. Surprising, but I tried that and actually got somewhat faster results. Odd.
I guess nothing else jumped out at you in my list.
Well, I trashed prefs, repaired permissions, cleaned cache, ran DiskWarrior on everything. And no hardware seems to be obviously working improperly. So I guess my renders are just going to be what they are…
Thanks for checking in.
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