Edit to tape makes me render

[Mike Kahn]

I am dragging the sequence from my browser window into the ETT window.

[Jeremy Garchow]

Must have something to do with that nest.

Jeremy

[Chris Poisson]

I have NEVER had to render on Edit to Tape, Print to Video, yes, but not ETT. 99% of my timelines are 8 bit uncompressed going to Beta SP, perhaps that is a factor, but never had to render, even with extra clips in the timeline.

But, yesterday I did have a strange behavior with ETT, it was all working fine but I got no video on the tape, only audio. Ended up having to make my dubs on the fly. Dunno, never seen that before.

Have a wonderful day.

[John Christie]

Make sure you have no empty tracks in you sequence. IE: if you have video on Track 1, make sure your titles on track 2. I don’t know when I discovered this, but it always works for us. For some reason when FCP sees an empty track it needs to render the information above that track.

Cheers

John Christie

[Bob Flood]

Mike

what happens if you switch off the record to tape high quality ie under the RT tab on the timline, there is a selector for Record to tape. Set it to “use playback settings”

if you still have to render, then try switching the playback from safe to unlimited but high quality

the next thing to do would be to change your timline settings to match the format of video you are putting out IE forget the Pro Rez and set the timeline for 1080i at waht ever frame rate

(it sounds like FCP does not think your timeline is “native” enough, hence the rendering)

hope this helps

hope this helps

“I like video because its so fast!”

Bob Flood
Greer & Associates, Inc.

[Lance Bachelder]

You’ll always have to render the broadcast filter 1st. Are you rendering during Edit to Tape?

Make sure you render 1st – save – so you don’t lose your render for future – then go into edit to tape.

Lance Bachelder
Southern California

[David Bogie]

[Jeremy Garchow] “For what it’s worth, I never have to do this render step unless a clip is disabled in the timeline.

Opposite of what Bogie says, but true for me.”

You know, come to think of it, I cannot recall using any of these processes in years, probably not since v4.5. I should have checked my system first.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Mike Kahn]

I spoke with a friend and he told me that nests and ETT do not get along. I had two options, I could unnest everything and rerender or I could export as a self contained animation with an alpha since they were titles. I went with unnesting and rerendering since it was only a broadcast safe filter that I was trying to apply.

Mike

[Jeremy Garchow]

Did it work for you? You can copy and paste the broadcast safe filter on all the clips you need to without nesting.

[Mike Kahn]

I know I can apply it to all my titles but some had transition effects on them that needed the broadcast safe filter on it as well. For this show I didn’t have that but in the future I might and I’ll have to make it an animation with an alpha channel and render.