Render every time

Hi guys,

Do you all have to render every change you make? I do and I am using FCP5. My friend has FCP6 and he doesn't have to render every time he put a new clip onto the timeline or any change he makes or whatsoever? Does sound weird to you all? Is it a FCP5 thing? does it have anything with my settings? Help!

JohnT

The answer is in the FAQ

Why is it that when I play my footage in the viewer it plays fine but when I drag it to the timeline it has to be rendered to play back?

Michael Horton
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depends on what you have and where you drop it...

Hi Michael,

I did check out FAQ.
Too bad that [www.proapptips.com] doesn't exist anymore. I guess it is because my clips are 720x480 and my sequence setting is 680x480. What doesn't make sense to me is the photos set at 680x480 still need to be rendered everytime.

I try to match all the settings but I don't see a default setting for 680x480 in the User Preferences.

stills must be rendered before it can play

And don't be lulled by the green "realtime play" bar above photo clips-- to judge quality and animation and frame accurarcy you need to render these as well as 'redline" clips.

- Loren
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Loren, about the light green RT bar, I read that it allows for full quality realtime effects and rendering doesn't improve playback quality. Does that mean that a render would now result in generational loss when doing an edit to tape?

That's called "Full Preview Quality." Next to meaningless.

Render them clips, dude!!

- Loren
Today's FCP keytip:
Instantly find Next/Previous timeline Gaps with Shift/Option -G !

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Haha. Thanks for the reply! Yep, I always render before i export. Juz checkin... Wanna know what's strange about the "full quality"? Once I had some stuff on the light green bar and i didn't have time to render the entire timeline, and i had clients come in for a session to make some amendments... And as I was playing the edit, it hit this spot where the image suddenly turned soft. I almost jumped out of my seat and then realized that it was on the light green bar. Amazing how "full quality" it turned out to be.

I work on this project for almost 3 years now. I learnt FCP while working on the project. So a lot of things don't really match and so, as I was messing around with the program. Like they say: I wish I knew what I know now. I'm just gonna continue to render every time until this job is done. I've gone so far already rendering every time. I still like to know for the learning sake however.