Render Bar Colors

Everybody who edits (which would not be me) seems to genetically know what all the colors of the render bar can be and what they mean.

I have never seen a list like that and the instruction books, forum search, and help systems haven't prduced anything userful.

I'm betting you found out from your daddy, right? And he got it from his....

Koz

I believe they are user selectable, in User Settings.

-MW

<<<User Settings.>>>

Thanks.

User Preferences doesn't seem to have anything like that. What are they if I don't change the factory values?

FCP 5.0.4 by the way. I suspect they didn't change all that much between the versions.

I didn't have a lot of trouble figuring out what the red bar meant, but what's the lilac one mean? Chartreuse? Fuchsia? What's the difference between the Prussian Blue bar (which looks almost like gray) and actual gray?

Koz

go up to sequence than to render ther's a full list with colors



Amateur Teacher

<<<go up to sequence than to render ther's a full list with colors>>>

Nope. This all came up because I found a render bar color that wasn't up there. Without thinking about it a whole lot, blue is missing.

Koz

In the on-board help PDF, Volume III Pages 536 & 537, there is a chart, Koz.

(I'm still on FCP 5.0.4, though. Search for Render Status Bar if you have a different manual.)

Happy reading!

<<<Happy reading!>>>

That's our version on the third Mac. I'll look.

Thanks.

Koz

Blue is a weird one that hardly ever comes up. It means that a video card or something has enabled a real time effect that isn't supported or recognized by FCP. It'll try to play it real time, but may drop frames as a result. I don't know that I've ever come across that one more than once, and I forget why.

Andy

But thanks to Deb, I now know where to go look to find out. It's not bright blue, it's Prussian Blue--sort of a cold powder blue.

We get a large number of completely different formats through here and I've seen colors go by that defy description.

Koz

Well, it could be the color of already rendered material. I think it's blue, but Apple calls it "steel gray". Yeah right.

Andy

<<<Apple calls it "steel gray". >>>

That's why we're paying the big bucks for Apple Design.

Koz