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moving clips around screen & rendering
hi there, i just got 2 simple questions:
– is it possible to easily move videoclips around the screen? i’d like to have two videoclips displayed side-by-side, running in tandem. i tried the cropping feature, but it isn’t very intuitive/easym it would be a pain to edit that with alot of clips.
– how do you “render” a sequence for preview in the timeline? i just couldnt find it. in premiere pro, you could just hit “play”, and you would get a realtime preview. in final cut pro, i get a screen saying “unrendered”.
cheers!
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3 Replies
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Switch the canvas to image+wireframe and you can scale, crop, rotate and reposition the clips however you like.
Cmd-R will render selected items. Opt-R will render all. You really should do the tutorials, read the manual, or a good book or other instructional materials on this application.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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thanks for the response, it really helped. yes, i’m going to get into doing those tutorials when i find a copy.
i was wondering how long renders should take? because i’m trying to render a preview, and, according to the previewing bar, it’s taking 19minutes to process, for a short 1 min video. the clips are in quicktime. i’m using an old g4 500mhz, 514mb ram.
thanks
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QuickTime can be a lot of things. What sequence settings are you using? What’s the codec and specifications of the QT material? What version of FCP are you using? What are you doing to the material that requires rendering? That’s the absolute minimum specs for running recent versions of FCP.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” DVD
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