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FCP 7 & Rendering
Just purchased a 27″ iMAC, i7 Quad, 8GB RAM and FCP 7 Studio. I have files from a Panasonic HVX-200. After 1 hour of rendering to an MOV format it is telling me it will take 14 hours to render a 1 hour video. I upgraded from an older MAC G5 Quad with FCP 5 and was having this same problem. This is why I upgraded. The video card has 512MB of on-board memory. I must be doing something wrong or I have something set wrong. Does anyone have any advice on how to speed up this process? Thank you.
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Explain what you are doing in finer detail.
Are you adding filters? If so, what filters are you using. Are you converting your video into another codec or are you just exporting to a Quicktime file?
You video card ONLY applies to FX plugins, not to rendering your timelines. That is based on the CPU, not the GPU. Your computer specs are fine. It has to be something in your workflow to cause such a problem.
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Wayne Carey
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I am adding only a Time Code to raw P2 footage. I am rendering to “Using QuickTime Conversion”. Thanks for your help.
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By “raw” P2 footage, do you mean that you are editing the raw MXF files or are they files that have been brought in by Log & Transfer? And… How are you adding time code? Are you using the Timecode Generator plugin? If so, this will make you render.
I need some more info to help you out.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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The files were imported using Import & P2. I did use the TC Generator. John
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Well, the timecode generator alone will cause you to render.
But I have to ask, why didn’t you import your footage using Log & Transfer?
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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These files are coming off of a Focus Hard Drive on the Panasonic camera. This is how Focus documentation says to bring them into FCP. If there is a better way I am very open to it. I am not a professional by any stretch of the imagination, so I am open to all of the help I can get. I have gone through Larry Jordon’s training on FCP5, but did not see anything on transfering files. I just installed FCP 7 so I have not had the time to go through his FCP 7 training.
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Ok… Now that is making sense to me, now. I have to assume that your drive is setup to record straight to Quicktime. Good. That makes working and backing up easier.
You are backing up these files to disc, aren’t you? Please don’t say that you are keep ing these on hard drives. Hard drives do and will fail. DVDs or BluRay discs are much much more reliable.
Usually when one will say that they are using P2, we are meaning that the media is coming off the P2 cards. In that case, you have to use Log & Transfer to do this. Its just like Log & Capture but its meant for P2 and other file based mediums.
But to solve your rendering issues… Why do you need to add time code? If your Focus Enhancements’ hard drive is setup properly, it should record time code from the camera. There should be no need to add time code to anything except maybe old VHS footage.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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The hard drive is setup to record to P2 format not Quicktime. When I have added TC to the hard drive footage I can not remove it from the footage. So I recorded to the HD in P2 format with no TC and added TC through the TC Generator in FCP 7. This footage was initialy imported into FCP 5 from the HD. Since I have upgraded to FCP 7 I am editing them there. These files are currently stored on my scratch drive which is an 8GB Drobo drive connected through FireWire. I have a backup unit and I am saving to a server which is backed up every night.
the reason for the TC is so a manager can review and tell me what parts of the footage he wants edited and made into a video.
Thanks again!
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