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Unrealistic rendering times in FCP6 PLS HELP DEADLINE!
SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP!
OSX 10.4.11, 1.67 PowerPCG4 laptop 1GB SDRAM
Have an URGENT deadline a & am having extreme difficulties rendering. DV timeline, mixed format media (some uncompressed etc.), media on external terrabyte, drive firewire 800.
Something which should take less than a minute is suddenly taking 36 hours? Set to safe RT and autorender last nite hoping it would just go ahead as per usual & render open sequences while I sleep. No progress…
Can’t work out what the problem is, although not as fast as my other workstation – never had difficulty with this before. Any ideas and thoughts on this most welcome?
Thanks in advance 8)
Karen
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7 Replies
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Got any stills in your timeline? I had preposterous render times which never completed recently…turned out I had a CMYK still or 2 in the timeline by mistake.
Always Learning!
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Might also try clearing render files via render manager.
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1- Your external drive may be too full. 80% is a topoff point.
2- How much “uncompressed” material on your timeline? Convert those clips with compressor to the native timeline settings and then reconnect those versions. Same with other render-heavy / off-format clips.
3- If you are setting your whole timeline to render and then walking away, it may be just one or a few clips that are the problem. Consider rendering one at a time, or at least one at a time of the off-format clips or stills, to see which may be hanging up the whole project.
4- Make sure your render folder is on your external drive, if you didn’t set it up that way the default is your internal.
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Thank you for your quick response. Much appreciated. I worked out that the problem is the mp4s which I ripped from DVD. Everything else is fine. I had tried different formats using Media Cleaner but it took just as long for some reason & I didn’t even think to use Compressor for anything other than creating DVDs, so I am taking your advice & using compressor to convert them to H264 codec for DV timeline…cross fingers!
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Glad to hear you are having less problems.
Again, all audio and video elements are best converted to the chosen format of your timeline. H264 is not an editing codec. Placing H264 on your timeline will require Final Cut to render it anyway. So why not convert your mp4 to DV and place THAT in your DV timeline?
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Tks again William, you are right & FinalCut didn’t recognise the H264 files. I tried converting to DV through media cleaner which saved them as Quicktime.mov files. I didn’t see the DV option in Compressor. Think I might need my eyes checked instead!
8)
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You’re welcome.
Just remember that a Final Cut timeline is happiest when the media in it matches its settings. There are plenty of tools out there to convert clips, including Final Cut’s good friend Compressor, as you’ve found.Best of luck..
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