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Render Files Management / Avoiding Re-Encoding from Render Files During Export
Hello,
please do anyone know for sure how FCP-X handles render files?
(Nothing found in the manual nor in the forums…)
To be more specific:Under which circumstances will FCP-X re-process every frame during export?
To explain what I mean:
If I have a ProResHQ project that needs to be rendered,
the project is already rendered and I export directly into a ProResHQ file,
then I would assume FCP-X takes the rendered data and copy it into a new quicktime file
without to process and re-encode all the frames again.BUT:
If I export into a different codec than the project is:will FCP-X re-process all the frames (without encoding ProResHQ render files),
and encode them directly to the target codec?OR
will FCP-X take the rendered ProResHQ data,
decode and re-encode them to the target codec,
leading to a (in this case rather small) quality loss?Thank You and kind regards,
Bernhard -
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I’m not sure of the specific answers regarding renders, but there is no longer a project format setting as there was in FCP 7. There is a render format, but you can now have different native codecs on the same timeline (like a mixture of various ProRes codecs) and you will not need to render. I presume when you export this sort of a timeline as “current settings”, they will be encoded to the format specified in the render option the project settings.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com -
Thank You!
Seems I need to do some testing…
Best regards,
Bernhard
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