Auto Render Full

Hi all-
I have ~120 sequences that I want to render to Full- where if you have Full checked under Render All, it will render even the gray-ish green parts of the timeline. Auto Render is usually my friend for rendering multiple sequences, but it doesn't seem to render to full.

The manual confirms this behavior - I think - it says it renders Red, then audio, then yellow/orange, and then green.

By green, I'm assuming they mean Preview lime green, not Full grey-green, correct?

Any ideas on how to render multiple sequences to full without manually rendering each one?

I'd like to keep render files on the individual sequences, so nesting them all won't work.

The issue is I'm rendering on a fast machine, but will likely be laying off from and possibly making changes on an older machine, so what they see as rendered enough to play back is just enough different to cause me this headache.

To sum up - 2 main questions. Is there a way to auto render to full? And, Any ideas on what to do besides render each sequence individually?

Thanks!

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One trick I use, is select the entire timeline.
Then Render/Selected/Full.

This works for me, try it!



jamesnw Wrote:
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> Hi all-
> I have ~120 sequences that I want to render to
> Full- where if you have Full checked under Render
> All, it will render even the gray-ish green parts
> of the timeline. Auto Render is usually my friend
> for rendering multiple sequences, but it doesn't
> seem to render to full.
>
> The manual confirms this behavior - I think - it
> says it renders Red, then audio, then
> yellow/orange, and then green.
>
> By green, I'm assuming they mean Preview lime
> green, not Full grey-green, correct?
>
> Any ideas on how to render multiple sequences to
> full without manually rendering each one?
>
> I'd like to keep render files on the individual
> sequences, so nesting them all won't work.
>
> The issue is I'm rendering on a fast machine, but
> will likely be laying off from and possibly making
> changes on an older machine, so what they see as
> rendered enough to play back is just enough
> different to cause me this headache.
>
> To sum up - 2 main questions. Is there a way to
> auto render to full? And, Any ideas on what to do
> besides render each sequence individually?
>
> Thanks!

> One trick I use, is select the entire timeline.
> Then Render/Selected/Full.

Auto Render doesn't just do part of a timeline, so selecting the timeline isn't necessary. Auto Render settings should be determined by one of the render settings (Sequence - Render and Sequence - Render All). I always set both to render everything so I don't know for certain which one controls Auto Renders, but I'm pretty sure it's Render, not Render All. Set both to Full and Auto Renders should behave the same way.


www.derekmok.com

Select the sequences in the FCP browser and hit option r. I know what you mean, though, I use auto render to render open sequences across multiple projects.



www.strypesinpost.com

That's what I was hoping, but it seems like the autorender behavior is always the same, no matter what (at least according to the manual.) Everything is checked in both Render Only and Render All, and it still doesn't render full.

I just checked in the FCP7 manual, and it seems to be the same-

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When the number of minutes specified in the ?Start Render after? field has elapsed with no user activity, a progress dialog appears indicating the following sequence of events:

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If Autosave Vault is selected, the project is automatically saved prior to rendering.
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All selected regions of the currently active sequence are rendered.
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All sections of the Timeline with a red render bar are rendered.
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All audio with effects is rendered.
*

All sections of the Timeline with yellow and orange render bars are rendered.
*

If the Render RT Segments checkbox is selected, all sections of the Timeline with a green render bar are rendered.
*

If the Render pop-up menu is set to Open Sequences, the rendering steps above (except for saving the project) are performed for each open sequence. The project is automatically saved after each render.

You can do that?!??! Awesome. I'm going to go try that right now!

If your sequence is scattered across multiple projects, you may want to consolidate them in one FCP project and render from the FCP browser.



www.strypesinpost.com

Thanks, Strypes, that does the trick. I still can't do it across projects, but it's easier/faster than opening a sequence, and rendering from there.

strypes Wrote:
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> If your sequence is scattered across multiple
> projects, you may want to consolidate them in one
> FCP project and render from the FCP browser.


I have sequences in 30 projects (different markets), so for now, this is the best.