Dennis Leppell
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you need to upgrade your Flip4Mac. The free version will only give you 15 seconds. You’ll need at least the Studio version.
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To answer the core question, here’s how you find where your system is choking on the render time.
First….observe your timeline. If you’ve got parts that are 37 layers thick, and half of them have some sort of compositing mode set, and the other half have keyframes set for motion, scale, et al,….that’s gonna slow things down.
Second….highlight your timeline in 15, 30, 60 second chunks and render just those. If they go, that’s not the problem. If the are going at a good clip, then seem to stall out, cancel the render, and check where the render progress stopped at (those colorful thin lines at the top of your timeline….if it’s bluish, it’s rendered. The ones you’re looking for are going to be orange or red). Where the render stopped is where you’ve got a troublesome render spot. Nest it, and render so you don’t have to rerender if you accidently bump something by a frame or 3.
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Sounds to me like the computer is choking somewhere with the ProRes HQ, but I could be wrong. Can you use the other ProRes setting without an issue, or at the very least capture the clips in HDV and converting to ProRes with Compressor.
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what codec did you render to from AE, what’s your FCP sequence settings, what’s the final delivery format, how long is the title sequence, and what are the dimensions of the video.
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Nope, you’ve got the right steps. Drop your files into DVD SP, and burn away. Your computer will interpret the DVD properly to make it look as good as it can, as will your DVD player at home. Don’t necessarily fear what the end product will look like till you actually see it in the setting that it’s intended for.
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just an off the cuff thought, but check the log/capture, make sure it’s not set to non-controllable device, and check the box next to video in the ? tab (shooting from memory, i believe it’s the middle tab).
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did the keyframes really slide, or did the actual clip slide? if so, hit S and slide it back.
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Maybe an adjustment to the frame offset in system settings ===>playbackcontrol
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A droplet and a little Automater actions is the way to go for this…I already use a similar workflow for youtube vids to upload. Read this article on how to set it up.
https://www.macworld.com/article/54083/2006/11/compressor_watch_folder_tip.html
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lock the tracks you don’t need and drop your clip into place. F4 will lock all video tracks, f5 all audio. Clicking the little locks to the left of the tracks will lock/unlock just that track.
f9 will insert the clip from your viewer to your timeline at the timeline in point or the playhead, in that order of preference, using the clip’s in/out points. This will push all clips behind it down the line. and locked tracks will not be affected.
f10 will overwrite the clip onto the timeline, without pushing anything down the line. all locked tracks will be unaffected.
f11 will replace the clip on the timeline with the clip in the viewer, using the viewer’s in point, and the timeline clip’s out point for correct length.
For both those functions, if you have your audio tracks locked the existing audio will not be affected (and vice versa for video.
If you are dragging clips from the bin/viewer to the timeline, if the arrow is pointing right, it will insert. If the arrow is pointing down it will overwrite. depending on where the cursor is in relation to the height of the track will cause the switch between the two functions. you can cycle through the different track heights by clicking on the little bar graph in the bottom left corner of the timeline. (I use the g button to do this, but I think I had to map that myself).