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Fcp7 suddenly wants to render text and its slooow!?!
Hi I have been using finalcut since version 5 and I have never had this problem.
I transfered 30min footage from p2 cards and ingested them to fcp7. Then I did the first cut. After that I started to take in some text using fcp’s own text tool (just plain text) after half movie fcp suddenly wants to render where I put in new text. Not the one i just put in but new added texts. At the beginning I manage to move it up and down a layer and the “render status line” turned green again instead of yellow. But then after a while this “technic” was not successful anymore.
Since this was just a memmo with instructions from a client meting i did use a small drive for this and its only 2-3 gigs left on it. But I don’t think it has to do with that. I can always free up space if I need it on that drive but the cut is ready and I will export to another drive.
The project only have 4 layers of visuals. 2 used for video and 2 for graphic. It its always one layer of video and two layers of text.
I checked the sequence settings and it was set as it should with dvcpro hd 1080p but It was set to 10bit instead of 8bit so I changed it to 8. Don’t need 10 for this project. I wonder why it did use 10bit when it should have sensed the clips only has 8bit. Does that stick from the previous project that I haved open? since that was 10bit.
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Hi Dave, if I create a new sequence and simply drag one of your 1080 DVCPro HD clips into the sequence. It sure want to change the sequence to match the clip.
Then I get this settings:
https://www.joelarvidsson.com/autosettings.jpgI think it’s odd it choose the 10bit, before it always choosed 8bit YUV. Usually I choose 10bit when working with prores hq or change it right before final output.
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Also i tried putting in text int the new sequence after changing it to 8bit yuv. When I created the text I got the orange renderbar but it disappeared after moving the text up and down in layers a couple of times. Seams like some weird bug? After the line disappeared i stack three text layers on-top of the dvcpro hd clip without having to render. But as soon as I put on a fourth the rendersbars showed up again. Then I undo that fourth layer and keep the three text layers and ad an extra layer “dvcpro hd” layer. Still no problem.
Then I copy this section and start to paste it and after some paste’ing I start to get the renderbars again. The renderbar does show upp on all clip but after a certain time in timeline and continues.
If I copy only one text layer and paste it at the end I get renderbar. But copying one early text layer in timeline before the renderbar/lines starts it shows up fine.
This must be a bug. Should I trash the pref file to get rid of this? I have not done that in years.
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