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Rendering
I am working on a dual 2 Gig Mac G5 with 3 Gigs of RAM on FCP HD.
I am working on a 720 x 480 project and also a full 35mm frame 1024 x 683. Mostly stills but also some video.
Not matter what I set things at, the 1024 project has to render every edit, dissolve, etc. So too deos the 720 x 480.
The manual is vague on the MEMORY/CACHE settings in the SYSTEM PREFERENCES. Should both be at 100%? Can I trim back the APPLICATION to a lower % and boost the STILL CACHE? And why do they add up to more RAM than I seem to have??? What about the RAM/DISK ALLOCATION Boxes? I have tried turning off frame bledning, lowering video display quality and so on, but I have to render a lot.
Any advice would be helpful, as I usually deal with mostly stills but also, now, some video, too.
Also: can I resize the 1024 x 683 sequence to 720 x 480, do my edits with less rendering, perhaps, then resize it back to the higher res? Do I lose quality changing settings like that????
I’d like to spend more time playing and being creative and less gaping at the render status bar! I would think with 3 Gigs of RAM I shouldn’t have to render so much???
Thanks,
Todd Gipstein
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1 Reply
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It’s a confusing thing, FCP. Especially if you come to FCP from another NLE that had specific or proprietary hardware support.
Your project settings must match the media settings or everything will be scaled or otherwise processed to fit when your drop it into your timeline. I do not know if your machine can do a full frame 35mm format project without extensive processing; my lowly G4s are several generations below your hardware so I cannot test it accurately.
Others will chime in, I’m sure.
bogiesan
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