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Rendering causes video layer to disappear.
I am having a new problem with video layers after rendering.
At the head of each clip in my project I have four video layers. A Global title card which is a motion template I downloaded from Crumplepop, below that a text layer, then a black slug, then video footage.
Pre rendering I get the normal red line indicating that rendering needs to occur. If I place the play head over this are I can see all the layers properly in the Canvas. But when I render the clip the top layer disappears. If I double click on that layer it shows up properly in the Viewer. If I export the clip before rendering, it obviously renders on export and the layer disappears on the finished .mov file.I have tried re-rendering the clips after dumping the render files and restarting FCP.
I have tried reordering the clips before the render.
I have checked the opacity level.any ideas on why this is happening and how to fix it?
Running FCP 6.06, OS X 10.5.8 on a 2x 3.2 quad-core intel Mac with 8GB of Ram.
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3 Replies
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I’m having that same problem. I’m using FCP 7. Has anyone had a resolution to this problem?
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I kinda had a similar problem. I had 7 layers of video on my sequence with heavy time remapping and cropping. And when I exported the file, only the first layer showed. When I’d go back to FCP, only the first layer was showing. And then when I’d click on the “hide layer” button of one of the tracks, they would all suddenly reappear, but I’d re-export and nothing would show but the first layer. I tried copy-pasting into another sequence and into another project, I tried deleting the preferences, repair permissions, heck I even unistalled and reinstalled Final Cut Studio! Nothing would work..
Then I started switching off effects and such, and I found out that when I reset the crop fonction, the layers would export correctly again.. Wich was a bummer, I needed the crop!. What I did was to export each layer separately, and crop them in a new sequence. I don’t know what was happening, but somehow the file was corrupted along the way, and the crop function was causing problems only in that particular project.
Any who… Switch things on and off and hope for the best.Cheers
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I had the same problem and found it to be with the filters I put on my video layer. In this case, the Conduit keying filter. All I did was remove all filters and then reapply and everything worked. Give it a shot.
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