FCPX Render times

[Bill Davis]

One other thing I forgot to mention,

Since X became essentially resolution independent and “re-plumbed” for Core Video and AV Foundation, it appears to try to maintain the maximum resolution possible in all it’s compositing and layering work.

So I’ve found myself in situations where I set up a stack of effects over a scene – particularly things like titles and transitions with a lot of transparency in play and watched as X took a LONG TIME to calculate it’s final frame states.

That seems to have gotten a LOT better in recent X updates, but I’m still warry of building stacks of effects as discrete elements over a timeline. When I want to stack effects, I tend now to make the whole effect stack a single compound clip prior to rendering – because it would sometimes cut a render down from hours to a few minutes.

Again, this might be problems I remember from older builds of X. And might not do anything for you. But it’s worth a shot.

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