Yes, that is pretty much the current work flow. We are in a time sensitive, live news environment and are looking to cut out the step of the avi pre-render.
Another question I have is when you render out a clip, does it retain the original time code information as meta data or does it generate new timecode beginning at 00?
I’ve tried adding the timecode fx to the clip while it was still in the media pool and the result is the same, the timecode starts at 00:00:00:00. Thanks for the suggestion to contact DR, I’ll do that.