[Ron Craig]

I hope so.

[Ron Craig]

Sutharsan Bala writes: Why would anyone in this day and age have anything else than an Intel-based Mac?

Isn’t this kind of an insulting question? Do you intend to insult the person who posted?

I’m glad I can afford to buy high-end equipment and I applaud those who are working toward the day when they will be able to afford better equipment.

[Ron Craig]

It will work on your system as well once you find the mismatched settings.

Yeah, right. Well, I guess that’s obvious. There are only so many settings and I’m running out of possibilities on those. I’ve posted all I can think of. And appreciate the help trying to run this down.

[Ron Craig]

Yes, thanks Rafael. When I wrote that I wish I had that checked, I meant that it would have been an easy thing to fix. Not that I thought it should be checked. I always have it unchecked.

But it’s a good point! Thanks.

– Ron

[Ron Craig]

Well, it seems to turn out that there was not one little checkbox that wasn’t getting checked…or something like that. My problem was my selection of parameters in the Kona 3 control panel. I know all the sequence and preset settings looked right and FCP was not requiring rendering of the video that I was capturing. And I don’t precisely understand the inner workings of all this. But anyway, I reset my Kona 3 settings to give me 960×720 dimensions of my incoming video and I switched from a ProRes Easy Setup to a straight AKA Kona 3 720p DVCPro HD setting.

I’m now getting renders that are somewhat faster than realtime — but definitely nowhere near as fast as the few seconds Jeremey reported for a 5 minute video. Really, Jeremey?? A few seconds to export 5 minutes of high def material?

Anyway…things are better for me now. Thanks for all the suggestions.

– Ron

[Ron Craig]

You have recompress all frames checked?

I wish I could say that I did. But, nah.

Thanks, Jeremy. I’m going all through every setting, trying to find something like that.

-Ron

[Ron Craig]

Jeremy: Something is not setup correctly on your end.

Well, that sure does seem to be true! I alternate between resignation and gnashing my teeth. Wow — Your 1 second to render versus my 5 minutes!

I’ve posted everything that I thought would affect render times. And if none of that looks amiss, can you think of anywhere else I might look to find another important setting?

Thanks.

-Ron

[Ron Craig]

Yeah, I figured YUV was right but some of my research about this indicated that I might be better in RGB. Surprising, but I tried that and actually got somewhat faster results. Odd.

I guess nothing else jumped out at you in my list.

Well, I trashed prefs, repaired permissions, cleaned cache, ran DiskWarrior on everything. And no hardware seems to be obviously working improperly. So I guess my renders are just going to be what they are…

Thanks for checking in.

[Ron Craig]

Thanks for all the thoughts. My settings are listed below and I do appreciate any advice about whether any of them look inappropriate. First, I’ll note that I noticed that my Video Processing settings were to render in YUV. I changed that to RGB and, in fact, that did speed up the movie export. It’s now taking about 6 minutes to export a 4 minute 720p video.

I’ll also note in answer to Jeremy’s question that “full” is checked in the render options. And my RAID shows a capacity of 2.73 TB with 1.43 TB available. Here are my settings:

Video settings shown in the Browser as 1280×720, 59.94, Apple ProRes 422.
Sequence settings are 1280×720 (HDTV 720p (16×9), P.A.R.: square, timebase 59.94, compressor: ProRes 422, Quality: 100%.
Video Preferences/Render Controls show “Frame Rate 100% of Sequence Timeline.” Resolution 100%. And Codec: “Same as Sequence codec.”

Anything look odd?

Thanks again.

Ron

[Ron Craig]

Hi Jeremy,
Yes, everything is fully rendered. I am exporting self-contained. I did a brief test at exporting non self-contained but it seemed to be taking just as long so I went back to self-contained. And yes the timeline is ProRes.

All good questions!