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The unrendered files that were never there…
Hey all,
I’ve got a little puzzle for all of us! I can’t figure it out for the life of me, and haven’t really spent the time troubleshooting to find the answer because, well really, we don’t have time so we’ve devised some slow but working workarounds. As always, this is the best place to come for collaboration and help – thanks to everyone in advance!
We’re editing broadcast HD media shot in DVCPRO HD – editing FCP (whatever the lates one is now…5.1.4???) using AJA Kona3. One system is using a 2 TB SATA RAID, the other is using a 2 TB optical RAID and a 1 TB FW800 RAID (transfer rate is capable of DVCPRO HD playback) We need to deliver on Digibeta and HDCAM (for future purposes, but only the SD airs). Our sequence is onlined for SD delivery standards (since that’s the airing version), so we output our final sequence to DigiBeta. Then we nest our media and add an additional color corrector on the nest, just to bring the life back into the footage since it’s all now in HD color space. We render the entire sequence, and everything shows up rendered (I mean everything… our render flags are set to render all types of preview and RT). Everything plays back smoothly when rendered. Then when we go to ETT to HDCAM, FCP renders parts of the sequence for about another 10 min. There’s nothing in the timeline that needs to be rendered. If we cancel and manually try to render the sequence, nothiing will render because everything is already rendred (or is it???). Even if we jump into the nest from our SD export and render anything in there (Which shouldn’t matter anyway), FCP still needs to render on ETT. Even our slate is rendered. Could it be our bars and tone? Would that take 10 minutes for 30 seconds of footage?
On a side note, we left a bunch of sequences to render overnight (Auto render all open sequence with a 1 min wait time). When we arrived this morning, all render files were present and all sequences open sequences were fully rendered. We saved, did some other work in other sequences, and then came back to our rendered files were gone. We closed the files and didn’t save, assuming that we might have made some changes by mistake, opened our saved versions from the morning, and all needed to be rendered again. The same thing went for all Autosaves post rendering.
Any ideas on either one of these? Again, thanks so much. If you need more info, let me know.
-Ben
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Wish I did….but I use a different workflow for the same deliverable. We deliver D5 for their archive, and digibeta for air. I export my sequence as a self contained QT movie so I have one file to deal with. We output our color corrected DVCPRO HD timeline to D5, cross converting 720p 23.98 to 1080p23.98 using a Kona 3. Then, depending on the network, we either downconvert the D5 to digibeta, or I drop the self contained file into an 8-bit uncompressed SD sequence, add titles and then render…then output.
Either way I haven’t had any render issues. Not even the render before ETT…I used to with Print to Video.
Shane
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