Render In->Out

[T. Payton]

You are correct.

However, as a workaround, use the blade to cut up your footage so that you can make a selection of what you would like to render. Then select that, and chose render selection. Then undo until your blade cuts are gone and you’re render will remain.

Good idea to add a feature request for that.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Bob Woodhead]

Thanks for confirmation.

Man, I want to like X, but keep running into things that make me go grrrrrrrrr…..

“Constituo, ergo sum”

Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
CMX-Quantel-Avid-FCP-Premiere-3D-AFX-Crayola
“What a long strange trip it’s been….”

[T. Payton]

Bob,

I hear you, it’s 2 steps forward and 1 step back for some things. For other things it is 10 steps forward. Hopefully you’ll find that the positives outweigh the negatives.

For my workflow I have pretty much two kinds of projects: render intense compositing projects and a edit intense projects. For those that need the render I turn on background rendering at .5 seconds. I’ve been pleasantly surprised that the rendering is typically done as soon as I am ready for playback. Switching to proxy can help speed up rendering also. For the edit intensive, I turn off background rendering, and if it can’t play back in real time for some reason, I’ll switch to proxy, which can handle a lot more stacked effects.

Hope this helps.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Eric Santiago]

If its a huge project, duplicate it and then select all > Compound Clip.
Cutting that with the blade is easier.
You can always un Compound the whole mess after.

[T. Payton]

Actually be careful breaking apart a compound clip, there are some things that won’t break apart the way you had them originally.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Bob Woodhead]

Yeah, and what I was looking for was for very short duration renders, just so I can make sure the transition or FX is good, then skip over the body of that clip to get on with cutting. Then let background render do the heavy lifting when I’m changing batteries in the mouse or the camera or the transmitter or the keyboard or the light or the phone………… (how in heck do we manage to get anything done???)

[Oliver Peters]

[Bob Woodhead] “very short duration renders, just so I can make sure the transition or FX is good”

So, select only the transition and render that selection. Or select a clip, let it start rendering and then stop it. The part that’s rendered, stays rendered (I think).

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Bob Woodhead]

That’s a good idea Oliver, but not for every situation; say you’re coming out of a long clip w/ fx, then a transition (or fx) then another clip. It’ll start at the beginning of the 1st clip (which might be a ways from where you need your preview).

But I guess marry your idea with a blade on the incoming clip, and it’s a workaround. (nasty word)

[Oliver Peters]

[Bob Woodhead] “But I guess marry your idea with a blade on the incoming clip, and it’s a workaround. (nasty word)”

It sound like part of the problem is X’s inability to play this stuff in real-time, unrendered. What sort of media and effects are you using? What hardware specs?

– Oliver

Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
http://www.oliverpeters.com

[Bob Woodhead]

I’ve got a beefy MacPro w/ a RAID, and X often keeps up, but not always. And when it’s an intensive transition (light rays, etc) between clips with something like Magic Bullet, it just ain’t gonna roll like buttah…