[Pino Catalano]

Hi Karl,

I’m no pro but I would suggest converting your existing clips using mpeg streamclip (https://www.squared5.com)… It solved my problems! I went from a 5 day render right down to a 27 minute render…

[Pino Catalano]

Thanks, I’ll have a look at that link… I’ve learnt a lot from your answers thank you so much again!

[Pino Catalano]

Hi Tom,
I converted my clips which took only a few minutes and then put them back into FCP to render out the entire video with soundtrack and it took me 33minutes! I’m so thankful for your help!

I don’t know much about codecs and what the difference is between each one, is there a website that can educate me on this?

Thanks again!
Pino

[Pino Catalano]

Ah, I have so much to learn! Thank you for parting with some of knowledge.

Pino
(aspiring to be a pro!)

[Pino Catalano]

Great, Just so I understand this correctly…
I export the sequence as a QT movie
uncheck ‘make self contained’
bring it into DVDSP create my menues etc
Render out the final DVD and that’s it?

You’ve been so much help, thanks a million Tom!

[Pino Catalano]

Tom, you’re a great help, I’ll be downloading mpeg streamclip when I get home!

Yes, and I said yes to allow FC to change the sequence to match the clip settings.

Ok, I understand what you mean now… How does the exported referenced movie file work? Can that be used the same way I would a self contained QT movie to create my DVD in DVDSP (provided it’s on the same computer)?

[Pino Catalano]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reply.

The footage I am using is from my uncle and they are mpeg4 clips which I’m assuming is the main problem? I just dropped the footage onto the timeline and let it sort it out for me…

I want to export the QT movie so that I can take it to DVDSP and author a DVD.

I did all of what you suggest for the export except I did check ‘make self contained’. Would you be kind enough to explain what you mean when you say it makes a referenced movie to the media in my project? I thought when this was checked it was a seperate .mov file, is this assumption incorrect?

I have plenty of space on my hardrive and I have repaired all system permissions, my MBP is working properly and that’s why I’m stuck with this.

I appreciate your help on this, thank you.

Pino

[Pino Catalano]

Hi Michael,

Thank you for your response.

I will go and look up your suggestions now and learn a little more 😉

Regards,

Pino

[Pino Catalano]

Thanks David for your imput.

I did go home and look at the export properties and noticed that they didn’t match the timeline in FCP.

I corrected them, re-exported the .wav file and placed it on the timeline. I played it back and it seems to have worked for me.

I did however turn on the existing soundtrack and play both the .wav file and existing audio together and they were slightly off, only very slight.

Thank you for your help… I’ve had a real learning curve with FCS and although it’s been a headache I’m learning loads thanks to you guys here on Creative Cow!

Regards,

Pino

[Pino Catalano]

Hi Richard,

Thank you for uor response.

I have had a look at a few settings and the media & filters that I’m using and it seems that the image stabiliser is seriously slowing things down and that’s an understatement!

As it is a nested sequence I’m rendering I decided to cut all the sequences up into smaller sections, select them and render them individually. This seems to be rendering a lot quicker althought when I get the sequence with the image stabiliser it slows down dramatically (1min takes about 30mins to render).

I also noticed that if I just leave the machine to render, when the screen saver goes on and it sits rendering for a few hours the time just goes up and then starts hangining… I checked my system settings and nothing is set to slepp if left for a while although I am rendering to an external HD and this may be the problem?!

Pino
London, UK