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Render Files Offline- Can I just re-render?
In short- I have a project with about 500 render files off-line…my question is, do I need to re-link these files, or can I just re-render my entire project and use the newly created render files to playback/print to tape? Do the off-line render files even matter if I re-render or play a part in off the current media at all then?
A little background on the situation-
Trying to lay a hour and a half feature to tape, and during the process, it would drop frames at the same scene (we tried printing the trouble scene, and the media was fine), so we have determined that our render files are too far spread apart.
We were running an external firewire (drive a) with all the media store on the drive and scratch disks and it eventually reached capacity, so we reset the scratch disks to another firewire drive (drive b) and started writing rendering out to that drive.
We determined this may be the problem (trying to read render files off a different drive), so we consolidated our project media to another external firewire (drive C) using media manager, ONLY copying over the files that exist in our final sequence (not the render files).
So, I re-linked all the media that was copied to Drive C, and eliminated Drive A and Drive B, which is holding the missing render files.
Obviously I now need to re-render the entire the final sequence…so sicne I am re-rendering, are the off-line render files needed?
Also small side question- My render command (command R) does not render…I hit the shortcut, and a short message comes up as if it’s going to render, but I get nothing…I need to render using Option R…has this happened to anyone?
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3 Replies
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You have to read the manual. Command +R works great on a selection, but you must select something. Render files can be deleted, misplaced, destroyed, flown in to space; but if they are not there, then you must re-render. It will not hurt your project, nor will you lose anything other than precious time. So I say, render, delete, render again!
Seriously, you are going to have to read the manual, purchase a book, or meet with a tutor. Best before asking simple questions on a subject you should already know.Tim
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Sorry, I should have been more clear.
Yes, a clip is selected when I go to press Command R, however, it does not render the clip (even though it obviously needs to be rendered). I get the “writing video” message, but it dissapears so quickly, I can’t even read it, and the clip stays unrendered, even those the command has been hit.
I can only use option R to render all. I can’t render a single clip using command R
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Check under your (menu bar) Sequence–>Render From there, you should be able to check which items to render. (proxy, preview, etc) From what I gather, it sounds like you don’t have the correct render setting checked for what you you need rendered. Hope this helps
Tim
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