Render Issues.. WHY WHY WHY???

[David Roth weiss]

[Conan Stott] “sometimes I can happily drop my footage into the timeline and work away without issue, yet other times im forced to render every little piece of footage I drop into the timeline!! What could be the possible reason for this annoying and expensive problem.”

“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare

My purpose for quoting Shakespeare here is not to make you feel bad Conan, but rather to encourage you to be a bit more introspective. A better approach for you might be to ask, what step did I miss in my training and what do I need to go back and learn that will make my time working with FCP more consistent and more efficient?

I say this because, invariably, people like yourself who have issues such as the ones you’re having, are not opening their project and setting it up according to the very clear and concise instructions in the user manual, which detail the proper procedures for project setup using the “Easy Setups,” which should be used every time a new project is begun, and which will absolutely, positively guaranty that your project settings will match your media type, which is the key to success in editing with FCP.

Fortunately, for those who don’t like reading manuals, Walter Biscardi created a truly handy video tutorial, which you can find at https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/realtime_sequences.php. I highly recommend you watch it, remember it, and follow the instructions precisely every time you open a project, and you will find that FCP will actually work consistently every time, and the annoying and expensive problems you’ve been encountering will simply disappear.

I hope his helps…

David

David Roth Weiss
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Los Angeles

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[Walter Biscardi]

Sequence Settings don’t match your clip. You can watch my tutorial on this to get a better understanding of how this happens, ever after you set your Easy Setup correctly.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/realtime_sequences.php

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.

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[David Roth weiss]

Isn’t that exactly what I wrote in my post above, including the link to your tutorial?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.