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Question About “Render Lines”??
I notice that the “render lines” or “render bars” have different colors and a different message for various clips.
To wit: Some clips have a slate grey render line and the cursor displays: “Video: Rendered”.
Other clips have lite grey-green color and the cursor displays: “Video: full”.
(These colors are default. I never changed anything.)
The files all play perfectly in FCP and no “render warning appears” (the clips were rendered when they came back from Motion).
Why are these clips different and does anything have to be done to use these clips?
Does this have any effect on using these files to make a DVD?
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Redford Givens
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Rather than me posting a long explanation here, have a look at the manual (accessible in FCP) -but just to say that both the bars you describe allow for real time playback, without quality loss, but in the case of the green bar, video will still have to be rendered (either when you export or before) before being exported in your chosen codec. You can use ‘auto render’ to make the machine do this automatically when you are away from the edit.
Finally, you’re better to do this separately before exporting, as if you let FCP do this on an export, the timeline will revert to its unrendered state after the export, meaning you’ll have to wait all over again for it to first render, then export, the next time.
Fortunately, this will also soon be a thing of the past…
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[Ben Holmes]
Rather than me posting a long explanation here, have a look at the manual (accessible in FCP) -but just to say that both the bars you describe allow for real time playback, without quality loss, but in the case of the green bar, video will still have to be rendered (either when you export or before) before being exported in your chosen codec. You can use ‘auto render’ to make the machine do this automatically when you are away from the edit.
Finally, you’re better to do this separately before exporting, as if you let FCP do this on an export, the timeline will revert to its unrendered state after the export, meaning you’ll have to wait all over again for it to first render, then export, the next time.
Fortunately, this will also soon be a thing of the past…
Thanks for the info. I found the fact that the color bars allowed playback without quality loss, but this is the first about auto rendering to speed things along.
I just want to eliminate any “undocumented” production disasters down the line.
Never Trust A Robot
Redford Givens
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