fcp5 won’t let me render

[Jerry Hofmann]

Try opening the project again, and turn ON the delete render files. FCP 4.5 used the “fast” setting (lowest quality) new to FCP 5 is the normal setting (better than before) but you should trash the older renders and re render. Then there’s highest qualtiy, which again you should trash the old renders (there’s a checkbox in the bottom of that window to turn on for this during the update procedure). Each of the two higher quality render settings will take more time (more computations for better quality). Otherwise, if you set it to fastest, then don’t delete older renders, it should open with the old renders intact. BUT you probably have already trashed these old renders the first time you opened the file. but it might be worth the try to make sure that the delete render files option IS turned on, that way the system thinks that the sequences need to be re rendered and will do so. It sort of sounds like, it thinks those old render files are still there, when they really aren’t.

Jerry

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[Phillip Van west]

Are you sure you have all the render types checked in the ‘Render’ and ‘Render All’ submenus under the Sequence Menu? You probably do, but it never hurts to ask…

pvw

Phil Van West
Terra Nova Productions LLC
Denver, CO
Video Production/Post-Production

G5 DP 2.5GHz / 4.5 GB RAM / 2x250GB SATA / OS 10.4.1 / FCP 5.0 / QT 7.0.1

[Andy Mees]

this can sometimes be an issue with incorrect permissions on your render directory.
if you’re in a multiple user setup, make sure that you have Read & Write access for the enclosing folder of your Render Files directory.

cheers
Andy

[David Rowan]

In FCP 4.5 I rendered all by hitting “Apple-R” I was baffled when this didn’t work in FCP 5. It turns out that now I have to hit “Option-R”.
I also had to make sure that under the menue for Sequence-render- That all the choices were check marked. Sometimes they are not all checked, so nothing happens.

DWR