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Keeping working without rendering
I’m trying to make a small movie in Final Cut Pro 6 using just stills (jpg, 2560×1440 pt)) and some sound-clips and there is a problem that I’ve not been able to solve.
I would like to keep working all the time without having to render; I mean, doing the rendering once I’m happy about the result. Now I’m constantly confront with red bars over the timeline every time I do some editing or changes.
I’m been reading about in the web and, apparently, all I have to do is going to RT on the top-left-corner of the timeline and choose for ‘dynamic’, but such a word doesn’t appear in the list; just ‘Play base layer only’, ‘Use Playback settings’ and ‘Full quality’.
What do I have to do in order to make the red bars dissappear without having to render?Another thing I would like to do (if is there a methode for) is, once the film is ready, to reuse all the settings, effects, levels etc frame-by-frame but with a different set of stills (same size jpg) and sound-clips. Is this possible?
Any answer would be appreciate. Thanks very much for reading me.
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If you don’t see the RT settings (SAFE, Unlimited and then settings for quality and framerate, your sequence is not set to the right codec and resolutions. You have to be using a RT friendly codec like ProRes for the compression and a video resolution like 1920×1080 (or 720p or 480)
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Thank you, Michael, for your answer.
I suppose I have to start again from zero and going through all the settings that, I don’t think I’m going to be able to understand.
What would you suggest to be the right settings for a movie with just jpg-stills, size 2560×1440 px? The movie won’t go further than YouTube and family & friends TV’s, but I intend to make it looks like a little professional, with a variety of effects and creative transitions. -
I believe YouTube maxs out at 1280×720, I would use a ProRes 720p @30p sequence.
I would test out a pic converted to tiff or png to see if that gives better RT playback over jpg.
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You don’t have to start completely from scratch. You can use copy and paste (like in a text document). Select all your clips in your timeline, copy them, open up your new RT friendly timeline and paste the clips.
You will lose any rendering you’ve done so far but they were rendered in the wrong format anyway.
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it’s actually 1920×1080 now.
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Thanks again, Michael, for your input. Also to you, Andrew and Gary. It really has helped me.
As told you before, I decided to start the project again from zero, but not before writing down all the details about how the editing was happening, so I did not have to try out things again. But now, with the explanation of Gary, things have gone really smooth
Instead of converting the jpg’s to tiff’s, what I have done now (in a parallel project) is importing the jpg’s in a multilayered PhotoShop doc; then importing that doc into Final Cut Pro, having then all the formal jpg’s as transparent clips, which will give me extra opportunities for the final touch of the project.
It was a pleasure having your answers. Hope I would one day been able to help you in return.
Fernando
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