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Rendering with Edit to Tape at Full Quality
I have a DVCProHD 1080i sequence that I am trying to print to tape. I have rendered everything in my timeline at full quality (everything set to the hisghest qulity it will go) and my Record setting is set to full quality. Why is it then, that when I edit to tape, it insists on rendering something that takes 15 minutes before it will actually print? There are no segments in the sequence that are unrendered. My playback looks great straight out of the timeline. If I set the Record setting to Use Playback Settings, it doesn’t need rendering but it chokes on the Final Cut countdown. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. Please help before I go insane.
Dax
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All preshow elements need to be rendered as well. Can’t get around that.
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Even if I turn off all leader elements it still does it. And it is not the mixdown audio. That would be quick. It seems like it is rerendering every effect and transition. Would it have anything to do with me rendering in 8bit YUV instead of High precision YUV?
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This happened to me a month ago. Everything was rendered and edit to tape
insisted on re rendering. I put the question on here and got a answer that worked for me.In my sequence I had a video track which I had turned off, but left in the sequence.
For playback and rendering this was fine, but when I dragged the sequence to
edit to tape, the rendering problem came up. I copied the sequence, (because I wanted to
save the sequence and use that turned off track later….an 800#) and then
removed that turned-off video track, then rendered, then edit to tape DID NOT
re render. There is some kind of bug in FCP that makes this happen.
Hope this helps.Dan
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Also, set your Auto Render in your prefrences to one minute before you’re ready to edit to tape. Even though you have everything rendered if there is anything in your timeline that Edit To Tape needs to render, Auto Render will render it. Not sure why, but it works.
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I don’t follow.
“One minute before you edit to tape”?
Actually set the prefs one minute before you output to tape, in real time?
Is that what you are saying?And what if edit to tape wants to render something that took you 6 hours
like some of my sequences with Boris chroma keys and other noise
reduction filters will result in?Just want to understand what you are saying.
If there is a bug I don’t know about that I can work around with your info,
then I’m all for it.Dan
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In your FCP prefrences there is an item called Auto-Render. I think the default is 45 minutes. In other words, if you step away from your workstation and nothing happens for 45 minutes you will see FCP start to render your sequence (if there are items to render). So, I just set my Auto-Render to 1 minute and wait to see if there are any items it needs to render before I output to tape.
To be honest, I’m not clear myself what it renders (especially when there are no red or green lines for audio or video). However, what I do know is that I’ve experienced the exact same thing that you are struggling with and when I started letting Auto-Render do its thing the problem went away. I started doing this with FCP 4.5 so it’s not something exclusive to FCP 5. I hope this helps.
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This makes sense, I do have a video track that is turned off in this particular sequence. I discovered another way to fix this before I read your post, and that is to just embed the sequence in another sequence and then output that to tape. When I did it this way, it also did not require a render. Thanks for the input. I’m glad it is a legitimate bug and I’m not just going crazy. 🙂
Dax Bedell
WEDU-TV Tampa, FL
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