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Rendering Nightmare!!!
Tell me if this is normal:
I am running a dual 2.7 G5 maxed out in ram (8 Gigs) – G-Raid 1TB external drive – X800XT graphics card – Blackmagic SP capture card.
NOW…I cut a segment for a show we are putting on soon that is only 30 minutes in length. It’s all just basic DV video, but I scaled it down so that it is on top of a background. The ONLY effect I have added is a basic border to the video, and a drop shadow. It has been rendering for over an HOUR!!! I am over $10,000 into this system with everything and my stupid PC with Premiere Pro will do the job in a fraction of the time.
Am I doing something wrong, or is that the joy of using a Mac?
Brian
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5 Replies
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Is your sequence set to DV? I just loaded up a similar timeline and it was real time (no rendering needed) until I added the border and shadow. It was a short clip but it rendered in close to real time, i.e. 30 sec. sequence took ~30 seconds. Your 30 minutes on my system would take about 30 minutes. We do have X-Serve RAIDS here though. If your background clip (maybe a Jumpback) is not native DV, it will take longer too.
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yeah, the sequence is set to DV. No rendering is needed on my system until the drop shadow is added. That just seems like an aweful lot of render time for one small effect. The background is actually just a still jpeg image.
Thanks for your response.
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Adding a drop shadow to your work will require FCP to render everytime. Talked to Apple about it at NAB last year and they know a simple drop shadow will bring FCP to its knees. Hopefully they can find a solution.
Andy
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I’ve never tried this in FCP, but what about creating a black solid in PhotoShop and putting it under your reduced image layer (but over the background). Make it the same size as your image then offset it right and down and you have a drop shadow. You could also affect its opacity, although, that might cause a render. Just a thought.
John
Dual 2.5 G5 4 gigs RAM OS 10.4.3 QT7.0.3
Dual Cinema 23 Radeon 9800
FCP Studio 5
Huge U-320R 1TB Raid 3 firmware ENG15.BIN
ATTO UL4D driver 3.50
AJA IO driver 2.1 firmware v23-28
SonicStudio HD DAW, Yamaha DM1000, Genelec Monitors -
Good suggestion John, but Brian could take it even one step further since he is using a still. Add the shadow to the still in PS and no rendering! You could even do this right on the timeline. Setup up the shadow (or matte) and border the way you want, hit Shift-N and create a Freeze. Now drop that down as your background and put the squeezed DV footage over that without a shadow or border.
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