[Elvira Avetisyan]

Hi, i noticed that you know a lot about rendering.

I have a a problem, and i hope you can help me.

i just bought my first mac computer, and it is powerful, it is quad core i7, 2.93 GHz, 2x4GB of RAM, they told me that this computer will leberate me from all the video editing problems i had had before working on PC.

I after looking thouroughly , decided to learn Final Cut Pro . And knowing the basics, i started editing. the problem is that when i put 3 way color correction, or maybe smoothcam video filters, it gives me about 16 hours to render JUST 1 MINUTE video. And i know that i am doing something wrong, because whenever i edit that same footage in motion 4, with exact filters, it takes minutes, and that is it….

Maybe i do something in the settings, or is it maybe because of the footage??? It is my brothers wedding, i ripped it from dvd….first i chose .MOV and .MP4, i even tried MPEG2 (i used to work in this format all the time on PC ), but when i import mpeg2 into FCP, there is no Sound.

So in which format should i rip video, so the quality would be untouched and rendering wouldnt be that long????

Any advice I would appreciate,

Thanks