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after I "render all" (Opt-R) directly from the timeline, if I go in the browser window and select the sequence and again Opt-R, it takes another 30min.
How come?

Why are you doing that? Makes no sense.


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Maybe I need to be more clear.
I am ready to deliver a spot so I render the sequence before exporting.
For that I usually work in the timeline and Select All and then Opt-R.
However when I have several sequences to render, I do that from the browser, selecting the sequences and then hitting Opt-R.
So what happened is that I rendered a sequence directly in the timeline, and when it was done I simply checked out of curiosity if rendering from the browser was different. ANd it was indeed because I had another 30 min left (4 min spot).

So I am just wondering why? Is the rendering from the timeline incomplete?
Am I re-rendering things when rendering from the browser.

Firstly check your render settings are all ticked

Also auto-render can be used to good effect here

? Set auto-render to 1 min and all open sequences

? Open all the sequences you want to render then leave the Mac and let it render everything.


I've found the auto-render a tad more reliable over the years but not tested manual rendering vs auto for along time.



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ben,
the problem with auto render is it doesn't render "full" quality fx.

xavpil,
i cannot duplicate what you are experiencing.
maybe you are selecting a different sequence in the browser?
maybe you are working across 2 projects with duplicate sequences?
or maybe it's time to trash your preferences.


nick

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the problem with auto render is it doesn't render "full" quality fx.

You mean light/olive green realtime FX then yes it leaves these - something Apple really ought to fix.


To get round this you could always change the timeline settings to render in High Precision YUV then even the Realtime that was realtime in 8-bit YUV will auto-render as they will go bright green.



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i guess...
or just hit option r?


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