Exporting Reference Movie (not acting like it should)

[Shane Ross]

You need to render the sequence first. If it isn’t rendered, than any part of the sequence that needs rendering will be added to the reference file. However, if you render it and put the render files on your Media drive, THEN export the movie, the REF movie will reference the media on your media drive, renders included.

Shane

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[Nate Hanson]

Hi Shane,

I think everything is rendered. There are no red bars at the top of my timeline. And when I “Render all”, nothing happens. So it should all be rendered, right?

Nate Hanson
Pilothouse Films

[Shane Ross]

There should be no GREEN either. Not light green, not dark green. Either grey or purple (purple means rendered). And unless you have RENDER SETTINGS set to render dark green…it won’t.

Shane

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[Nate Hanson]

Timeline has all grey (media files) except for two very small purples (rendered). When I mouse over the render bars in the timeline, the yellow box that pops up says:

Video: media file
Audio: media file
RT Extreme does not support this sequence
Does that have anything to do with it?

Sequence settings are as follows:

1440 x 960
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square
Field Dominance: None
Editing Timebase: 30
QuickTime Video Settings – Compressor: Animation

Nate Hanson
Pilothouse Films

[Andrew Commiskey]

Nate,
The settings have me perplexed. The animation setting (Quicktime) is used for graphics mostly and compatibility between multiple edit systems. It is not a realtime codec. With the sequence set up this way everything has to be converted to the animation codec to output. Where did the source material come from?

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[Nate Hanson]

Hi Andrew,

Video media came from two sources:
1) Screen capture from iShowU HD Pro (captured in Animation)
2) Motion graphics from After Effects (also Animation)

Nate Hanson
Pilothouse Films

[David Bogie]

Try exporting self contained. This will simply copy the disparate existing rendered media files to a new coherent file. If you are really using Animation files and have a sequence based on Animation, the resulting file will, of course, be freakin’ huge.

But using the Animation codec is where your problem is entering the mix. If you’re able to view the sequence in real time using Animation, you either have a monster machine, a proprietary card that supports Animation, or some other voodoo.

bogiesan

[Nate Hanson]

Well, I am out of room on my hard drive, so I’ll have to clear some space for a self-contained export.

FYI: even though the media files are in Animation, the file sizes are not extremely large. If the image doesn’t change much (as in a screen capture), there is a lot less data to record, so using Animation doesn’t result in gigantic file sizes. I’ve got a clip that runs 11 minutes long and it only weighs in at 279 MB. That’s at 1440×960.

I’m using an iMac with a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 2 gigs of RAM…seems to be running smoothly enough.

Nate Hanson
Pilothouse Films

[Andrew Commiskey]

You can try changing the codec to Prorez and re-rendering or export as prorez and it will be smaller. Just out of curiosity, where is this going?

Chaos is the beginning of everything.

[Nate Hanson]

Andrew,

This is going to be a video tutorial. I teach high school multimedia classes and when kids are absent from class it is a nightmare to get them caught up. So I’ve been making video tutorials of what I covered in class.

I’ve made several that have worked out great…but I was trying to improve the process (I was trying for a bigger capture size so I can zoom in and maintain quality) but I got all hung up on this one.

I really appreciate everybody’s input.

Nate Hanson
Pilothouse Films