Pre-render for Final Cut?

[Shane Ross]

[Jennifer Arani] “I have some sequences where I add the beauty box filter. Well this tends to cause a LONG render. Like a 4 minute timeline takes 4 hours. I just can’t take that long to output drafts for my clients. “

You should look at Electronic Makeup Artist by sheffieldsoftworks.com. It does a very comparable job, and the renders are TEN TIMES quicker. I passed on Beauty Box when I demo’d it and was hit by those render times. I just don’t have the time. I have large chunks to render, and when 2 min sections take well over an hour.

[Jennifer Arani] “Does Final Cut have a Pre render option like there is in After Effects?”

No.

[Jennifer Arani] “Can I have Media Manager recompress the clips on the time line?”

What will that do? If you have the filter applied then FCP will need to render it before it recompresses, so again, long render times.

[Jennifer Arani] “ny suggested workflow would be wonderful. “

Get a different plugin.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

There isn’t that convenient feature, but after you render, you can export the clips as self contained movies, then Reimport and reedit the clips in to your timeline. You can out them on a layer above and disable the filtered clips underneath.

It adds time to your workflow, but will save tender times. You will also be locked to the length of your exported clips.