I am cutting an animatic - a series of storyboards cut together with dialog and music to import into an HD project. (1920x1080). The boards are 1920x815 to accommodate for letterboxing.

Whenever I build them into a sequence, the shots have to be rendered. I've tried different sequence settings and also different file formats for the boards - photojpeg; TIFF; PNG; etc - is there anyway to avoid rendering all the shots in the timeline?

thanks in advance.

I am running FC Studio 3 on a Macbook with 2.8ghz Intel Core 2 duo Mac osx 10.6.4

FCP will need to render if it is 1 frame long.



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In other words, no. You could increase your memory allocation and make the timeline dynamic so it displays a rough idea of what you're doing though.