Does this sound right

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Ron Craig] “Yeah, I figured YUV was right but some of my research about this indicated that I might be better in RGB. “

Most video is YUV and FCP captured video in YUV, so you should render in YUV to avoid any color shifts.

From what you posted, the videa you captured and timeline look to be the same.

I just exported a fully rendered ProRes 23.98 5 minute seqeunce and the export took all of one second. A self contrained file took about 30 seconds.

Something is not setup correctly on your end.

Jeremy

[Ron Craig]

Jeremy: Something is not setup correctly on your end.

Well, that sure does seem to be true! I alternate between resignation and gnashing my teeth. Wow — Your 1 second to render versus my 5 minutes!

I’ve posted everything that I thought would affect render times. And if none of that looks amiss, can you think of anywhere else I might look to find another important setting?

Thanks.

-Ron

[Jeremy Garchow]

You have recompress all frames checked?

[Ron Craig]

You have recompress all frames checked?

I wish I could say that I did. But, nah.

Thanks, Jeremy. I’m going all through every setting, trying to find something like that.

-Ron

[Ron Craig]

Well, it seems to turn out that there was not one little checkbox that wasn’t getting checked…or something like that. My problem was my selection of parameters in the Kona 3 control panel. I know all the sequence and preset settings looked right and FCP was not requiring rendering of the video that I was capturing. And I don’t precisely understand the inner workings of all this. But anyway, I reset my Kona 3 settings to give me 960×720 dimensions of my incoming video and I switched from a ProRes Easy Setup to a straight AKA Kona 3 720p DVCPro HD setting.

I’m now getting renders that are somewhat faster than realtime — but definitely nowhere near as fast as the few seconds Jeremey reported for a 5 minute video. Really, Jeremey?? A few seconds to export 5 minutes of high def material?

Anyway…things are better for me now. Thanks for all the suggestions.

– Ron

[Rafael Amador]

[Ron Craig] “Jeremey reported for a 5 minute video. Really, Jeremey?? A few seconds to export 5 minutes of high def material? “
Yes. When everything is already rendered FC just write together all the renders in a long clip.
Is a read&write operation. It shouldn’t be any slow.

About the “Recompress all Frames”, you must have it UNCHECKED, otherwise FC will re-render everything on exporting.
Cheers,
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Ron Craig]

Yes, thanks Rafael. When I wrote that I wish I had that checked, I meant that it would have been an easy thing to fix. Not that I thought it should be checked. I always have it unchecked.

But it’s a good point! Thanks.

– Ron

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Ron,
You should check (Activity Monitor) how much CPU Final Cut is using while exporting. This would helps you to know if FC is using the already rendered files, or if is in the process of rendering.
Have a look as well at the Disc Activity> DataRead/ Data Write.
I would recommend you to run DiskWarrior, TechTools or any other application that rebuild directories.
Cheers,
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yes, really. A refernce movie exports in a second and a self contained movie in less than a minute. 720p ProRes HQ. It will work on your system as well once you find the mismatched settings.

[Ron Craig]

It will work on your system as well once you find the mismatched settings.

Yeah, right. Well, I guess that’s obvious. There are only so many settings and I’m running out of possibilities on those. I’ve posted all I can think of. And appreciate the help trying to run this down.