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Motion renders taking too long
Hi There,
I just installed FCPS 2 and Motion seems to be taking too long a time to render what I would consider to be a simple effect. Basically, I have text on one side of the screen with an image on the other. they are both angled in at about 30 degrees with a slow growing behavior. The renders start off ok, doing about a frame per second. Then after a while they get bogged down to the point where it takes about 30 seconds to render a frame, despite it being no different than the first few frames. this happens regardless of whether i render in FCP or motion, or on my MacBook Pro or my G5 (Macbook Pro is running Leopard, the G5 is running the previous OS – can’t remember which jungle cat it is). Each have the required 1GB of RAM.
Does anyone out there have any idea what is going on?
Thanks in advance
Chris
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3 Replies
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The images are still images with a frame size about 800 pixels wide and the video is DV. I am rendering to QT – DV codec
Thanks again,
Chris
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We have an Apple Motion forum, please move this thread over there.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Chris Monette] “Does anyone out there have any idea what is going on? “
FCP integration with Motion is terrible. One work around I found that speeds things up is to export an uncompressed QT Animation and manually import and place it into your FCP sequence. The rendering takes about one quarter of the time it take to render a Motion file.
Im hoping that the latest updates for FCS will fix some of the many integration and memory issues but I’m not holding my breath.
cheers,
Greg NosatyCinemontage Productions Inc
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