Why does FCP do this?

B

blackdogs377

Well-known member
When you throw something on the timeline...it wants to render it. What gives? In other NLE's like sony vegas, you can put any files you want on the timeline and move them around and it doesn't have to render anything....Explain please?
 
RockmanX3 said:
What codec are your movie files? FCP is a little anal about that.
Click to expand...
Well i don't have a mac, but i tried FCP at my buddy's house and i just played with it for like 5 minutes, but it did it with all video files i tried which included mp4 and other popular formats.

does it have to do this with DV or does it have live preview for DV?
 
Because FCP isn't Vegas...

...And because you don't know what you are doing. You must learn your NLE and learn how it works. Never approach an NLE like the last one you worked on...that will never work.

#28 Having to render every clip in the timeline

Shane's Stock Answer #28: When I put a clip in the timline, I have to render it before it will play. Why?

Your clip settings MUST match your timeline settings. If you have DV/NTSC material, you need a DV/NTSC timeline. The frame rate, audio rate and dimensions (4:3, 16:9) all need to match exactly. In Final Cut Pro 6, this is easy, because when you drop a clip into the timeline, it asks if you want to set up the timeline to match the settings of the first clip you drag into it. Click YES and you are ready to go.

However, in FCP 5.1 and earlier, it is a bit trickier.

The most important thing you need to do is properly set up your project from the start, and the best way to do this is to choose a setting from the Easy Setups, located under the Final Cut Pro menu.

Once you do this, you’ll need to create a new sequence. This is because the sequence that is already in your new project is setup for the typical default setting of DV/NTSC, or for the settings of your last project, which might not match what you are currently working with. So delete SEQUENCE 1 and create a new sequence:

This new sequence will contain the settings you chose in the Easy Setup menu, and should match the format you captured.
 
wow. No offence, but that seems like an unnecessarily complicated process to do something so simple. The timeline should be able to accommodate many different formats at once.
 
None taken. If you want that flexibility, then look at Adobe CS4 or Vegas...those are the strong suits of those applications. That isn't FCPs strong suits. It's strengths lay elsewhere.

If your footage is stuff that you see in the EASY SETUP list, you can mix and match pretty well. Assuming your hard drives are fast enough to accommodate the larger formats, that is. And mixing frame rates is the biggest issue.

I can mix ProRes, DVCPRO HD and HDV and DV just fine. No problem. But DV and h.264 and MPEG-2...no.

If you need to mix formats like you are, you need to get the NLE that does that..
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top