[David Roth Weiss] “[Ben Holmes] “However, you could probably have avoided this re-rendering if a) you hadn’t altered the easy setup – you only needed to change the capture preset to HDV and b) you used the ‘undo’ key when you get this issue.”
Ben has hit the nail on the head. Easy setup changes the entire project, and so changing the easy setup from 8-bit to HDV will discard the 8-bit renders because its programmed to do just that.
By virtue of the fact that FCP doesn’t change the settings for Seq 1 in a new project when changing the Easy Setup, you would think that changing Easy setup should not effect cuts and renders on other open timelines, but it does. It could have been programmed differently and maybe should have programmed differently, but thats how it is programmed.
DRW”
In this particular situation since most of it is 10-bit uncompressed and there are a few hdv clips, I would have:
1) opened a separate fcp project to capture the HDV.
2) converted the HDV clips to 10-bit SD clips to match the easy setup(using mpeg streamclip)
3) dropped them in the 10-bit timeline and be done with it.