Ridiculous FCP Render Times – TWIXTOR

[John Pale]

Thanks for figuring this out. Great info.

[Walter Soyka]

[John Pale] “Thanks for figuring this out. Great info.”

Thanks, John. Ordinarily, I’d never suggest frame duplication as the solution — but since this is FlipCam media, there are bound to be larger QC concerns than one little frame here or there, right?

Josh, good luck with your project.

Walter Soyka
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[Hunter Julius]

Bob – this was all the band had. Contrary to the belief of most on this forum, not everybody has excessive amounts of money to spend on equipment that isn’t even pertinent to their job. I am sixteen, and therefore don’t own obscenely expensive equipment, therefore forums treat me like I am comparatively worthless merely because of my financial situation. I’d urge you to meander over to Jerry Hoffman’s blog concerning technology vs. art. It’s quite thought-provoking and is a testament to the importance of content rather than technological perfection.

[David Roth weiss]

[Josh Celli] ” I am sixteen, and therefore don’t own obscenely expensive equipment, therefore forums treat me like I am comparatively worthless merely because of my financial situation.”

You’ve been hanging on the wrong forums Josh.

Congrats on being sixteen, and congrats on learning this stuff at your age. It will serve you well.

Meanwhile, the fellas here had no idea you’re just a baby, and they most likely assumed you were a semi-pro who needed a good whoopin for shooting with different frame rates. We do see it all the time here.

Just do keep in mind, it’s not a cost saving by any stretch to shoot with mismatched cameras. Always shoot with the same frame rate and the same frame size if you want to save money.

Learn the lesson now, and don’t use the we didn’t have $$$ in the budget excuse, because it always costs more to fix it in post. For the record, post is typically 60 to 65% of the cost of total production, compared to 30 to 35% for production. So, the old fix it in post thing typically costs 1/3 more right from the get-go.

David Roth Weiss
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[Bob Tompkins]

Josh you are very smart for a 16 year old. Keep up the good work. Just trying to help you with some of the things we have learned over 30 years. Unfortunately the band is not going to understand why you can’t complete their project so it becomes your problem. When you get paying customers it will be your job to control as much of the process as possible. I agree with cutting the program as a two camera concert and adding in as much “b-roll” from the two Flip cameras as possible. The more time you have the more you can do.

[Mac Mcdougal]

Hi All, I’m also experiencing long render times in FCP7. I shot everything on a Canon Vixia HF20, whose “standard” frame rate is 60i. I’ve never figured out how to import this footage directly, so I import it first into iMovie (now FCP X), then import from Events into FCP7.

The sequence settings I’m using for the entire project are:

Frame Size: 1920 x 1080, HDTV 1080i
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square
Field Dominance: Upper (Odd)
Editing Timbase: 29.97
Compressor: Apple Intermediate Codec

This is an online course with video and 2.5D animation. I’m sure I’ve done something stupid, the question is What?