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Timecode Window Display
I have three projects running at the moment, all with clients requesting a Timecode window copy of the edit on DVD.
Now to get a timecode window of the sequence, I nest the master sequence inside another sequence, then drop the Timcode reader filter onto the nested master sequence.
This initially appears to be fine, and plays back in realtime. Then I go to export a quicktime reference movie to send to Compressor for authoring. All of a sudden, I am seeing the time to export as about the same time it took to render the Timeline in the first place. As far as I can tell, the system is happy to play back the timecode window in realtime, then will re-render the whole lot when you go to export to quicktime.
Is there a way to disable the realtime nature of the Timecode reader filter, so that it will actually render on the timeline as part of normal rendering?
Reason for this :
– you can start and stop a render, but not an export
– I allow for my renders to be long (ie. walk away from the computer), but generally need my exports to be quick.Is my workflow completely back to front here?
Is there some way of invoking the Timecode reader as part of the encoding? (in the same way that you can do a text overlay or similar during encoding.)Thanks
Alister
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3 Replies
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To render the timeline with the reader before exporting you should go up to the sequence menu and make sure ‘full’ is checked under render selection render all and the other option (the name is escaping me now). When you go to hit render all, everything should now render, even real time effects.
Jeremy
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Cheers for that.
Alister
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Don’t make a FCP movie which is self contained instead uncheck the self contained option and make what is called a reference movie. In other words a pointer back to the sequence and files.
Export that to compressor and it will take a hell of alot shorter for the export.
You can do the same thing for the window burn instead of a nest.
FYI the window burn happens via RT extreme which if you are using FCP 5 is dynamically controlling the RT capabiility.
Using reference movies is a great way to export stuff quickly. The only requirement is that you are the original media is on the same computer or drives which can be accessed by the other application which you are exporting the movie too.
This means you can’t send a reference movie across town because the other user does not have the media to reconnect the pointers too. In this case you need to export a self contained movie.
Tony Salgado
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