Whats the best way to edit 1024×768 footage?

[Ben Holmes]

Animation codec is a heavy duty high bitrate lossless codec used for exporting graphics elements with an alpha channel – it’s very hard to play it back on any system without rendering it out, and having it at 15fps is also a bit bizarre.

If you just want to edit with it then transcode it using compressor into ProRes or similar. If you have FCP7, you can encode it as ProRes 4444 and keep the alpha as well. Unfortunately every method requires a render.

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[David Roth weiss]

[Milton Hockman] “Every setting i try is super slow on export. a QT ref is taking 20 mins for a 7 min rendered video.
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Milton,

It certainly sounds as if your timeline isn’t fully rendered before export, which does take longer because FCP is rendering and exporting simultaneously, rather than just rendering.

So, make sure that “Full” is checked in the Sequence>>Render All dropdown menu, then re-render. Full is not checked as the factory default for some ridiculous reason, so you need to do it manually and check to make certain it’s checked in every new project.

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