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Transitions render choppy in final output
I’ve been working on FCP for years but whenever this problem comes up it leaves me completely stumped:
I’m working on a documentary with lots of cross-dissolve transitions and fade ins/outs. Most of the time I have no issues but the problems begin when I get the light green “render all” line over my fades and transitions. They still play fine during playback but if I render them, the line turns to blue and the transitions become very rough and choppy.
Andwhen I export for final output, all of transitions appear choppy. I can’t figure out what to do! It’s so strange to me that it plays back fine with the “unrendered” line but when it gets rendered by me or automatically on final output it looks like crap… Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Make sure that “Full” is checked in the Render All drop down menu. Then re-render.
David Roth Weiss
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It is checked and it does show it rendering. The problem seems to be that it looks much worse after rendering. Once the green bar turns blue, the transitions look horrible. And this is every transition in my piece that is doing this.
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I had that problem once…I’m glad I haven’t seen it since..I was FULLY rendered and the same exact thing happened to me.
I gave up on going back and checking to see if there was even the most minor discrepancy between source and timeline or whatever. Based on other people’s advice for the sake of time, I put a “dummy” filter on the entire sequence – a filter that would force a full re-render, but with the attributes of the filter turned off. It was obviously some MORE rendering time, but it fixed the sequence for output.Chad Brewer
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Can’t remember though, as that traumatic experience has been removed from my memory…I may have also had proper results with exporting the project as a self-contained Quicktime which should also render/encapsulate your transitions if you pick the proper export settings in relation to what you’ve been editing with..???
I bet Shane Ross has some good input….
Chad Brewer
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Yeah I’ve tried rendering out to a self-contained QT and the same thing happens. What I really want it to do is NOT render those little green bars across the top of the transitions. When they’re green, they’re fine but when rendered the line goes blue and all hell breaks loose. I tried using a 3rd party (Natress) transition and I got a red bar. But when I render that, I’m back to the blue bar and the same problem.
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Stay green then.
As long as you don’t have video issues, it would be Kermit the frog’s humble advice to get the project out.Chad Brewer
Senior Tape Operator/Engineer
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Are you seeing this on your broadcast monitor, or only in the FCP canvas?
Arnie
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What format are you working in?
You aren’t dissolving alpha channel to alpha channel are you?
Have you put one clip over another and tried an opacity fade instead?
Or put on clip over another an dissolve the other clip on top of it?
Pictures are worth a thousand words so showing what’s happening might help as well.
Jeremy
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Did you try tossing renders with Render Manager and start again?
Jim McNally
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The line turns from green to blue? Blue? Grey means doesn’t require rendering…then there is the rendered PURPLE…but BLUE? What is that?
Shane
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