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Render Woes…
I have about an 8 min. section of video and audio that contains about 20 or so individual clips inside. On each clip I have ‘color correction’ a ‘deartifacter’ (Magic Bullet) and on some a ‘chroma key’ and ‘color smoothing’. The “woe” is in that it is taking like 3 hours to render on my G5 dual 1.8ghz only to find that the render setting that I used wasn’t very good and it looks like crap.
The original shoot was on a PD-150 in DVCAM Progressive. So what would be my best choice for A) settings for a final render to go to DVD (doesn’t matter on the render time here, just looking for the best quality AND B) a way to work with my timeline where I do NOT have to render everytime I move a clip .000001 samples to the left… ARGH!!
Thanks in advance!
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4 Replies
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DOn’t want to render whenever you make a change? Don’t add Magic Bullet to the clip until you are done.
Magic Bullet has a NOTORIOUS render time…the only way to speed that up is get Magic Bullet Editors 2, a faster machine and a really good graphics card.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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So was I wrong in thinking that RAM will make the render go faster? (I have an X800XT card and 4.5 GIGs of RAM that we’ll be maxing out to 8 soon). We have Magic Bullet Editors 2 as well, and it’s done a good job of crashing FCP 9 times out of 10.
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At the moment, any given app can only use 2 Gig of RAM at a time. So with 8 Gig, you could have 4 different apps all maxing out the RAM at the same time, but I don’t think it will help your render times. A faster Mac will though! =)
-Todd Beabout
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I thought that FCP would eat as much RAM as you could throw at it? BTW, what page of the manual is this all listed on? I hate wasting people time here. (I assume it’s early on).
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