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render files
I have a 15 min project that I edited in Final cut and did color corrections in Color. I did not have room on my startup disc for the usual place I would save these files so I changed the render file to one on my second drive. There was no problem rendering the color project and everything played fine in Final cut except a message that 45 color files were offline. This did not seem to be true or effect the sequence so I assumed that this was perhaps reffering to a earlier attempt that had been messed up due to sync problems as this was a PAL project and I screwed up the settings.
I then copied the file to a external hard drive for someone else to view. When I checked the files that I had transferred to the external drive everything was fine and played as it was on my drive. Problem is, when she trys to view it she gets a message that 165 color files are offline. Is this because of the render file location on my second drive seperate from the fcp project folder on my start up drive?…and if so, why would it have played fine for me?…Also, I thought I would just copy the render files to a flash drive but found they are 160GB!! …any ideas why this is so huge?
Thanks for any help.
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When working with Color, it’s a very bad habit to move your Color Rendered files around. What you should have simply done was re-sent your project from Color to FCP to relink the media correctly.
As for the 160GB for 15 minutes, depending on the format you rendered to, sure, that’s entirely possible. Video files are very very large.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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Walter, thank you for your reply to my question.
When setting up the render directory this is the only change I made. I did not move the files. Could you clarify that I should not have changed the render directory to another drive?
Also, to reduce the file size should I have rendered to Apple Prores 422? The only option available to me at the time was uncompressed 10 bit.
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