Real Time Effects Changed To Blue Effects

[Michael Hancock]

Check your effects in the effect editor and make sure you don’t have the HQ button selected.

Michael

[Terence Curren]

Either,

You have maximum quality selected in your “render” settings. Once you hit render, it converts all of your effects to HQ mode which takes years to render.

Or you were in draft mode and now you aren’t?

Terence Curren
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[Dave Schweitzer]

Go to the project window, switch to the settings tab and have a look at your RENDER settings. When you do a render in-out it checks there and applies your preference to the effects. IIRC, you should set it to reflect the quality set in each effect, or some such terminology.
By the way, the way render in-out works seems to have changed in that it now will RE-Render every effect in the range, as opposed to only the unrendered ones.

[Rene Spencer]

I am curious to know if the initiator of this thread found any of these suggestions fixed the problem. With the upgrade to 3.0.5, I’m having a similar, if not same, problem – not with HD, just plain old SD. That is, any effect applied is a “blue dot, must be rendered” effect.

I am not a technical guru but I know my way around a bit. I’ve researched everything I can and still come up with no results.

I did each and every suggested fix listed here (and also getting rid of pre-computes) and nothing has made a difference.

Even the most basic transition effect is a “blue dot” effect. This issue has sucked up monumental amounts of time on two projects, as you can well imagine.

So, if all of the above suggestions don’t get the lolly, any suggestions on something else that either might be wrong (graphics card/processor issues? I’m open to possibilities) or something right that I am not doing?

Please assist if you can.

[Dave Schweitzer]

My first thought is to check whether you’re working in draft mode vs. full quality mode. It’s the little box at the lower left of the sequence window. If it’s a solid green rounded rectangle, try clicking it. This will let you cycle between solid yellow (low res), yellow/green (high res video, low res graphics) or solid green (highest quality – must render all).
The second thought is to check your media creation settings and make sure the effects are set to the same resolution as the video. If the video is 2:1 and effects are set to render at MPEG50 you may be forcing a render because the format has to be transcoded.

Good Luck!

[Bronwyn Lamarque]

Hey everybody.

I’m the initiator of this thread. Thanks so much to everyone who responded… I’m new to this site and the quick and thorough replies were a very nice surprise. Good to know there are good folks willing to take time out to give a helping hand.

Shortly after I posted this, I decided to go back and check my settings… I had changed a few of them in the process of making my settings work for my new gig. And, sure enough, I had somehow changed my settings to render at “highest quality,” therefore creating the “blue dot” problem. At least that’s what seems to have fixed it as I haven’t had it since I’ve changed it out of rendering in high quality.

If anyone else out there is having the same issue. Make sure you go into your settings and check it out.

Thanks, again, for your time and replies!

[Michael Hancock]

Glad you got it sorted out, and thanks for posting your solution. It will come in handy if future editors come across this thread.

Michael.

[Rene Spencer]

Finally – success – but not from the normal suggestions…

Well… I had done everything suggested in these posts without any luck.

Then, providence happened along.

My deck was off for a while and when I launched Avid I got a message about not finding the deck, I knew I wasn’t using the deck for my activity so I clicked the skip this option…

Went into my project and lo and behold — I have green dots, not blue dots. I work on the sequence and it’s like the good old days.

This didn’t make sense to me (FX and deck seem entirely unrelated…

I put the situation to an Avid Certified Trainer I am fortunate enough to know and she immediately seized upon the idea that YES, IT COULD BE THE DECK — all relating to how deck, monitor and computer cables are set up.

She suggested I change the Video Display Setting – to DESELECT OUTPUT TO DV DEVICE.

I followed this incredibly simple step and sure enough, it fixed this agonizing problem. When it’s time to output, I’ll obviously have to change that — and I wonder what will happen at that time? All FX re-rendered I suspect.

I hope that this will assist someone else who may be experiencing the same annoying problem.

[Nick Link]

Just wanted to chime in a big thanks. I was having the green v. blue dots issue, googled it, found this thread, and voila… answers!!

my particular issue turned out to be my DSR45 DVCAM deck… so i just turned it off, back to greenies.

thanks guys.