PFP: The rendering time takes true patience. I calculated it to be about a minute of rendering to every second of footage. I'm running it on a 1.6gb laptop.
disjecta that stuff looks amazing, very eerie and shot awesomely. Reminded me of The Ring to. Just rendered a 30 sec clip, only added color reversal. 15 mins for 30 secs. Reminds me of the early days of non linear editing. Now that im spoiled with fast render times, patience perfectly describes what you need when waiting.
I have to say this. I am amazed by the quality and looks I get with Magic Bullet Editors in FCP. Yes, it does take long to render but the results are beautiful. I have been experimenting with some of the presets and I would have to think that a lot of time was spent coming up with the "looks". Not only can you use the "looks" that are included, you can also tweak each parameter of each, the results are endless. Also, I have noticed that the filters applied to the DVX footage look astounding compared to what I have tested with various footage from the XL2. Since I don't own an XL2, I can't say that the footage is bad but I know when I had my XL1 and XL1s, post filters applied to the footage never looked as good as they do with the DVX. Why? I can't explain it. Talk about a filmic look, with the 24p from the DVX and Magic Bullet, it's no wonder Panasonic decided to throw in this software. I'm glad I bought my DVX100A when I did!