Rendering Issue

[Xinlai Ni]

Have you checked the “Render Settings” options of your render queue item? I think it will by default render your work area unless you manually override it to the range you want to render.

Xinlai Ni

[Danny Soderberg]

Thanks for the idea, but I will set the work area I want it to render and I set it for more than 3 seconds.

[Danny Soderberg]

Thanks for the post,

Open GL was turned on but when I turned it off it changed nothing.

I do work with HDV footage straight from the camera but it looks like you forgot to put something after “Read this”

Let me know of any other information that would help.

Thanks,
Daniel

[Danny Soderberg]

Thats very good to know! What should I convert the files too?

Thanks,
Daniel

[Danny Soderberg]

Dave,

Again I wanted to say thanks for the tip. I was wondering though if you either knew of a step by step explanation of how to conver the files or if you knew a good way/codec yourself.

Thanks,
-Daniel

[Danny Soderberg]

And to do the conversion, do I just bring the HDV file into AE and export the whole thing as uncompressed AVI. Then import it back in to start editing?

Thanks,
-Daniel

[Danny Soderberg]

Haha yeah… Do you know a good converter for a PC (that’s what I run on).

Thanks,
Daniel

[Danny Soderberg]

I’ve done a little research and I am finding it hard to find Adobe Media Encoder. It says it is a stand alone application, but it says you use it by exporting from Premiere Pro? Is there anyone else that can help me with this?

Thanks,
Daniel

[Marcello Mazzilli]

MPEG Streamclip is free and also for PC.. you can find it here…
https://www.squared5.com/

I don’t know what format it allows you to convert MPEG2 to but it should use almost any AVI codec you have installed on your machine. If the purpose is to actually work with the clips (maybe in realtime in Premiere etc..) you should change MPEG2 from HDV in Cineform (500$)… If you can manage to edit slowly and you have plenty of space you can just use “no-compression” settings in your AVI. There are other free codecs you can install and use.
I think installing from here should give you a good range of choices…
https://www.free-codecs.com/download/AVI_Codec_Pack.htm
Still.. by manual you should not convert at all (to keep all information) or use no-compression settings.. allthough CineForm is virtually lossles

PS Your 3 sec problem could come from somewhere else. If the project is kind of complex, or your computer to small (to little ram).. After FX can give that kind of problems. There is a secret keycombination to reveal an extra setting panel in the preferences to force it to discard cache every so and so frames.

hold the shift key, go to edit > preferences > memory & cache and you’ll be surprised to see a new entry in the drop down menu called ’secret’: the most interesting setting is the one that you can clear the memory after a specific amount of rendered images: ‘disable layer cache’

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Corporate video productions in Italy
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[Danny Soderberg]

Thanks for the info.

So what you are saying is, to keep the HDV footage totally full quality, I shouldn’t touch it at all?

My comp has 4gb of RAM so I don’t think that’s an issue.

In the secret menu, can you explain what exactly I should change?

Thanks!
-Daniel