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SLOW Render Time
I just started having this problem about 2 days ago with my Final Cut Pro 5.1.4
When I go to render out a file, lets say this 12 second file, it says estimated time is about 34 hours!!
To my knowledge, I have plenty of memory, plenty of ram… What should I do? Like so many others, I’m trying to meet some deadlines and that’s looking like it will never happen…
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4 Replies
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We need more information to help you.
What are your machine specs? RAM? OS? QT version? Processing power, etc?
What are the video specs that you’re working with? How did you ingest?
What’s your timeline sequence compression at?
What type of drives are you working off of/what type of connection is it?And have you trashed the preferences lately?
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what is it your rendering?
what kind of footage and codec?
what resolution?
HD and HDV footage can take quite awhile to render.
motion .motn files take extremely long to render (a buggy problem that began with 6.x though)
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I’m working with Mac OS X, ver 10.4.11
Processor is a 1.8 Ghz PowerPC G5
Memory is 2.5 GB DDR SDRAM
My main internal drive is an internal terabyte
The piece I’m trying to render is a still image, with an image on top of it that slowly zooms towards camera. They’re just jpegs.
To my knowledge I haven’t trashed any preferences.
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I would start off by trashing your preferences- FCP Rescue works well on the 10.4.x systems/Power PC.
Make sure you have alot of free space on your internal drive. Make sure the scratch discs are set to that internal drive.How big are the JPEGs? What’s the ppi? As a general rule of thumb, I do not work with JPEGs in FCP. I make them TIFFs. Maybe it’s superstition, but I think FCP works better with TIFFs than it does JPEG. Try doing a conversion and seeing how that goes. Have you messed with the sequence settings/video processing and flipped the render settings to Best or render in something other that 8-bit YUV? What are your sequence settings and what compressor is being used?
As an alternate, I would suggest doing this in Motion or After FX, but not sure how viable an option that is for you.
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