FCP – rendering

[Bret Williams]

What render settings do you have checked in the render menu?

[Matthieu]

I have checked everything in user preferences :

Filters, images fusion, animation fuzz (sorry for the translation from the french) ; frequency is 100% and so is resolution.

[Todd Beabout]

What happens when you press Option-R?

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Oliver Peters]

Are all the color selections checked in the pull-down menu for sequence render settings (from the top menu bar). If not, checked all of them and render the entire sequence. See if this works.

Sincerely,
Oliver

Oliver Peters
Post-Production & Interactive Media
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Olivier Jean]

Hi Matthieu,

Do not look any further, this is most probably the answer, especially if you’re new to fcp 5.

This is one of the most commun problem editors ( new or experienced ) ran into with this new version ( might even have started with version 4, cannot remember now).

Salut

[Oliver Peters] “Are all the color selections checked in the pull-down menu for sequence render settings (from the top menu bar). If not, checked all of them and render the entire sequence. See if this works.”

Regards
Olivier Jean
Video Sales Consultant
Apple Certified Trainer Final Cut Pro 5
Powermedia Systems
Sydney Australia

[Matthieu]

Yes, in the sequence bar for “render all”, all the colors are clicked.

When I want to render, a window appears just for one second. Nothing on it is written, only “0%”.

I use use FCP version 5.1.1 on OSX 10.4.6.

[David Bogie]

> When I want to render, a window appears just for one second. Nothing on it is written, only “0%”.< This would have helped if you had included this in the first post. You either have not set the render drive location correctly, there is not enough room on the render drive, you have no write privileges for the render drive or some other very subtle issues. Let's keep trying here. Does anyone have a three step experiment to run? Oooh, I do. Start an empty project. Create a single text item that is, say, 10 seconds long. What color are the render bars? bogiesan This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Todd Beabout]

If you are using 10-bit YUV you might run into this problem, especially if you have Motion Blur turned on. Right-click your sequence and go to Settings… Click on the Video Processing tab and select 8-bit YUV, then try to render.

Again, this is IF you are using 10-bit YUV (which is for the most part entirely broken if used for anything other than straight cutting). The more info you can give us about your project settings the better we can help.

-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios

[Matthieu]

Thanks. The color is “army green”