Motion 8 sec clip…12 minute render?!?!?

[Herb Sevush]

Walter –

While lasvideo might need more memory, that is not the cause of the problem. Many users are having this problem including me – and I have 5 Gigs in a G5 2.5 Dual. Files that rendered in FCP 5 in seconds are now taking 20 to thirty minutes. The same Motion 3 file that Final Cut took 3 HOURS to render was rendered directly out of Motion in under a minute. Something is definitely wrong with the render engine in FCP6.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[John Pale]

Grasping at straws….It may have to do with the location of your Motion content (which is different in FCS2)…which I assume is where your particles are coming from. Try resetting that and try repairing your permissions.

[Tom Daigon]

Prefs trashed and permissions repaired. FCP6 still has problematic long render of embedded motion file. As Boris said, this seems unique to FCP6, since FCP5 rendered this project at a much faster rate.

[Tom Daigon]

That may be true, but it doesnt explain how Boris has exactly the same issue with long renders with FCP6 and embedded Motion 3 projects… and he has 4 gigs of ram!

[Devin Crane]

It’s not prefs, or the card, or the ram, or anything other than FCP6 neeind to have this fixed. It is only utillizing 100% of the processors instead of 180%-190% like it use to use before FCP6. It’s the code.

I’ve had the same problem with a 4x3ghz Mac Pro 1900xt card, 4GB ram, Xserve Raid. And takes 7hours to render an SD 58:30 with 20 .motn files overlayed on the timeline. Use to take 1 hour.

[Gary Adcock]

The video card should have very little if anything to do with it.

but the graphics cards do in the new versions of FCP

I saw 5X faster difference rendering out 1080 444 content in Color with the x1900xt over the stock Nvidia 7300 in the same machine.

Motion is no different.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Devin Crane]

The card may have a difference in rendering but the problem is not with the card, I have the same card, but is taking 5x as long to render the same project in FCP6 than it did in 5.1.4

[Tom Daigon]

As stated by Devin…
“is taking 5x as long to render the same project in FCP6 than it did in 5.1.4”

Yes, this seems to be the crux of the problem. Excessive FCP6 rendering of embedded Motion 3 projects.
Tom

[Oliver Peters]

Does this behavior vary with the type of effects used in the Motion projects? Particles or not? What is the timeline setting and does the original Motion project match it or is there another conversion going on?

Sincerely,
Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Herb Sevush]

Gary –

For the record I have a Dual 2.5 G5 with 5 gigs and a Radeon X800 XT – which means I’m NOT underpowered in any way. And yet …

FCP6 is MUCH, MUCH, MUCH, Insanely Much slower to render Motion Files than was version 5. The only thing I’m not sure about is whether Intel Mac’s have this problem as well, or is it strictly G5’s seeing this issue.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions