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possible to render effects added to source clips?
Hi,
I have just shot a music video on HDV, and imported it into my dual 2.5ghz powermac, with 5gb ram. I thought i would be able to edit without problems, but have encountered some.
I have had to add a rotation of 180 degree in the MOTION tab in the viewer, directly onto the source clip, as i filmed it with a lens adapter, which means all the footage is upside down. When i then drag this down into the sequence, it has the orange render line displayed. after rendering i can edit perfectly well of course. But, i would ideally like to render this 180 rotation effect that is on all the source clips, without having to bring them down into the sequence first. as then i would have to basically use sequences as bins, in order to bypass the lagging of this unrendered clip. I would also rather not mixdown all the video if possible.
I shot on the sony HVR FX1, HDV, PAL. maybe my sequence settings are wrong also? if someone could also advice me on the best sequence settings for this it would be greatly appreciated…
MANY thanks for your time…
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This isn’t something I’ve needed to do before, so there are I’m sure other ways to do this.
The best way I can think of is to drop all of your clips onto a timeline. Then apply the rotation to the first clip and copy that clip. Then highlight all of your other clips, press option+V and tick the box that says ‘Basic Motion’. This will apply the rotation to every clip on your timeline.
Next, in the browser window, select your sequence and go File>Media Manager. On the first drop-down menu select ‘Recompress’, and recompress media using 1080i Apple ProRes (assuming you shot the HDV at 1080i). You could also recompress using HDV, but there’d be a slight quality loss and HDV isn’t a great format to edit with anyway. ProRes will keep the original quality and render faster when you come to edit it, although file sizes will be a lot bigger.Un-tick all the boxes under the Media menu. Under the Project menu, tick ‘duplicate selected items and place into a new project’. Under Media Destination select where you want the video files to be saved (making sure there’s lots of free space on whatever disk you choose).
CLICK OK.Final Cut will hum away to itself for a while, and then when it’s done a new project should open with all your new files there, ready-flipped.
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thanks so much, will have a go at this….
ian
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