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FCP wants to conform HDV material when rendering in timeline
Hi All,
A friend recently gave me some HDV footage on a DVD to mess around with while I prepare for an HDV online later this month. I’ve been tossing the footage around, trying to see what the boundaries and limits are.
So, here’s my issue. When I place any effect on the footage in FCP, then attempt to render it, it wants to conform the footage. I was under the assumption that FCP only conformed when going back out to HDV tape.
Could this be happening because I didn’t capture the footage directly to my computer? Does FCP create some sort of metadata file based on all the footage? Just hunting and pecking on that one…
FYI, I had FCP set to HDV and then changed the video preview to go out of the Kona 2.
System:
G5 Dual 2.5
8GB RAM
Kona 2
3.2TB SATA RAID
FCP 5.02
QT 7Thanks,
Michael -
4 Replies
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Michael,
Are you sure you are not setting off the render all command. I know it seems simple but it should not be trying to conform the whole timeline. It will on output though.
David
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Hi David,
Here is what I did –
1. Place HDV clip in HDV timeline.
2. Add G Film Effect (which requires rendering)
3. Select clip in timeline
4. Hit Apple-RNo matter what I do, it comes up with the window “Conforming HD Video.” The clip can be 5 seconds, 10 seconds, or 10 minutes. It still wants to conform it.
Once it’s been conformed, if I change anything in the clip it wants to conform it again upon re-render.
-Michael
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Had “Rendered Proxy” checked under the Sequences:Render Selection window. Once I unchecked it, all was good.
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This seems to be one of the cavates of working with HDV in the HDV codec. Maybe you can downconert to DV for the edit and apply effects and then only reconform the HDV master.
David
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