[MacDV] Re: Exporting sequences from FCP 6

[Conlon Brett]

Hi,

No it's all SD.

I'm capturing off my camcorder in DV PAL. In the sequence settings  
"QuickTime Video Settings" is set to DV-PAL.

FULL was not active and when I set it to render the progress bar said  
it would take 18 mins so clearly I needed to render. Thanks for the  
pointer.

If I make further edits it will no doubt need to render those also  
correct, and it should only re-render the edited parts, not the whole  
sequence, correct?

I hadn't been mixing down the audio, either.

BTW, my 500GB external FW drive is formatted HFS+.

I'm still curious about the previous versions of FCP.... actually, it  
may be that the previous versions had the auto-rendering setting  
activated and I think I may have deactivated it after installing v6.  
So, previously, the rendering would have been completed on many of my  
projects as my computer often lay inactive for hrs or overnight etc.  
Then when I exported footage it would be quicker and the exported file  
smaller. Does that seem right?

Many thanks,

Coj



On 04/08/2008, at 1:39 AM, sb wrote:

> Are you working in HDV? Do your sequence settings match your video  
> codec?
> You wouldn't get red render bars if your system was able to process  
> in realtime, but you still need to render out before outputting.
> Because you say that you got a red render bar when adding a simple  
> text over video, which your system should easily be able to process  
> in real time, I'm thinking there is some mismatch between sequence  
> settings and source codec.
>
> Go to Sequence>Render ALL ( and make sure FULL is turned ON) and  
> then press Opt R
> What happens? Rendering taking place?
>
> Also, how are your drives formatted? You are not, by chance, using  
> an external that is formatted as FAT32? (sometimes people buy  
> externals and don't reformat for Mac before starting to use them)
>
> Mixing down the audio is the final step before output.
> It's under the Sequence>Render Only>Mixdown (or CMD OPT R)
> This creates a small single audio file for outputting.
>
> hth,
>
> sb
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2008, at 4:21 AM, Conlon Brett wrote:
>
>> Hi sb,
>>
>> Just to clarify, if there are no red lines above the timeline then  
>> there's nothing needing rendering, right?
>>
>> This job only used very simple edits and fades. The only time I saw  
>> the need to render (the red lines appeared) was when I added text  
>> elements and I always rendered them to see how the final edit looked.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by mixing down the audio? Could you  
>> please clarify?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Coj
>>
>>
>> On 03/08/2008, at 5:22 PM, sb wrote:
>>
>>> Have you rendered everything before exporting? If you don't, then  
>>> when you export the render files become part of the resulting file.
>>>
>>> also, are you mixing down the audio?
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> sb
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 2, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Conlon Brett wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hiya,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using FCPro v6 and am exporting sequences to later run  
>>>> through Compressor when I'm ready to encode for DVD.
>>>>
>>>> With previous FCP's (v5 or v4) I remember exporting sequences as  
>>>> final cut pro files (File --> Export --> ??can't remember the  
>>>> option??  but produced a .fcp file, I think) and it was really  
>>>> quick (a few or less than a min) and produced small sized files.  
>>>> I assumed it was simply saving the edits list. You could also  
>>>> tick the box "Make self contained" in the export dialogue and it  
>>>> would export the entire video/audio file (which of course took  
>>>> much longer and produced a much larger file).
>>>>
>>>> Now with FCPv6 I'm using File --> Export --> QuickTime Movie. The  
>>>> resulting export for a 50 min sequence takes appx 17 mins (MBPro  
>>>> 2.4MHz) and the resulting file is 8+GB. I'm not even ticking the  
>>>> box to make self-contained.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to be able to export in a similar fashion as I was  
>>>> before - the quick "edit list" style file. Is that possible?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Cojcolds
>>>
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