Transition Rendering & Drop Frame issues

[Quinimine]

Hi David
if possible can you reply to my follow up post about converting footage with Animation or Avid Meridien codecs to DVCPRO50. Just want to know if converting at this level has any effect or does it still retain the properties of how footage was originally output

thx
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[Ron Moody]

Im using an Imac Core2 Duo 2.33 with 3GIG of Ram and a 500GB Hard drive. While I understand that to get real-time output, I need an external drive, here’s my question.

When I output a sequence to a movie file, the movie file has a couple of unrendered frames in it. I don’t get it. Prior to outputting the movie, I have used the command D keystroke to render all clips and transitions. Yet when FCP outputs a movie file, not all transitions are fully rendered. If I were trying to output to tape live, I could understand dropped frames, but I’m not.

My background is Premiere and in that program, even if you don’t render the timeline, it renders it to the output file. I can’t think of a single reason that FCP should give me this result.

Any ideas?

Ron from Mai