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really slow prores render
I’m running a 3.0GHZ 8 core mac pro, and I just completed a project that was 1080i ProRes HQ. We need to make a SD version to our post house to get output to digibeta. I dropped a self contained HD quicktime movie into an SD ProResHQ timeline and when I render it’s taking an hour to do a 30second chunk. When I drop this same 30 seconds into compressor it takes a minute and a half when using the virtual cluster on my machine. I know the virtual cluster will use the processors more efficiently, but this is a major difference in time. Any idea why Final Cut is taking so long to do this simple format conversion render? Thanks in advance.
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Matt,
FCP, because its optimized for displaying video rather than simply exporting video, is both rendering and exporting, a two step process….
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