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ProRes 422 Rendering Video Transitions
Hi,
I converted my Canon 60D footage to Apple ProRes 422 using Mpeg streamclip. I imported it into FCP 6 and matched the sequence setting to the source video. It edits great, with no rendering, except for any effects, such as a simple dissolve. A single cross dissolve takes a good 15-20min to render. Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong?This is my first post on this forum. I did search for an answer on previous posts but didn’t find one. Apologies, if I missed it somewhere.
Thanks,
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John,
Try selecting the cross dissolve transition and do sequence, render selection. Also, what are your computer specs?
Mac Pro 2.26GHz 8 Core
16 GB 1066 MHz DDR3
Final Cut Studio 3
Adobe CS5 Master Suite
Panasonic HVX-200
Canon 7Dhttp://www.codywaltersvideo.com
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Hi Cody,
Thanks for the response. I changed the RT to Unlimited and that seemed to do the trick. When I had the RT on Safe, ‘render selection’ wouldn’t render the dissolve and I had to chose render all, which took forever. So now that it is on unlimited, I can view the dissolve without rendering at all, although the ‘render all’ still takes a few hours for a 10min prores 422 HQ sequence, which may just be because I am running FCP 6.0.6 on an old 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 with 4BG of DDR SDRam on MacOSX 10.5.8.
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[John Sackman] “the ‘render all’ still takes a few hours for a 10min prores 422 HQ sequence, which may just be because I am running FCP 6.0.6 on an old 1.8GHz PowerPC G5 with 4BG of DDR SDRam on MacOSX 10.5.8.”
HQ is really overkill for Canon footage John, especially with your rather antiquated Mac. So yes, your long renders are because of the HQ and the older non-intel processors. Some of it would have preventable if you had used ProRes 422 or possibly even LT, but it’s only time.
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Hi David,
I originally used ProRes 422, which was certainly faster but still took a long time. But since the project wasn’t shot very well, I had to zoom in and re-frame a lot. I noticed a visible quality difference on the zoomed clips with the 422 HQ versus the plain 422, so I decided to go with that. But yes, a lot more time.
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