Brian David Melnyk
June 19th, 2008, 07:49 AM
i've got that sick, sinking feeling in the final stages of a huge project that something is very wrong...
HDV 30f (XH-A1), iMac 17" 2 GHz duo core 3 GB, FCPS2 Lacie 1TB (with plenty of room to spare). Many subtitles, slow-motion, 3-way CC, transitions, all rendered in ProRes.
I have had suspiciously few problems. Always smooth playback. Was overjoyed, but now worried.
What i did:
created a sequence duplicate of the Final Edit. In duplicate sequence, control clicked audio track 1's visibility and exported>quicktime conversion>Aiff:
linear pcm
mono
16
best
Then repeated for all 6 tracks so i could tweak them individually in Pro Tools. maybe not the most efficient way, but that's the route i took. When clicking 'export', the computer said 'preparing video for display' took some time (the bar) said it again, took some time and then again... maybe normal? gave me an uneasy feeling, anyway...and lots of green and red 'needs render' bars on duplicate sequence (settings same as original)...
fine. i exported all the tracks. BUT, when i closed the duplicate sequence and tried to play the original, it ALL needed to be rendered for playback (a lot or rendering!!!). I did not re-render out of paranoia, i saved and closed the project and then went back to an earlier autosave. it opened fine and the original sequence showed it did NOT need to be rendered, BUT when i tried playing it back, it stuttered at the first transition and when stopped, showed everything needed rendering.
I know, i know... why don't i just re-render?? well, i have visions of being stuck in a 'render loop', where i always render my final edit (half hour per render), but it ALWAYS needs rendering...
just thought i'd ask if anyone has experienced this before i proceed, or any ideas WHY this should occur. seems pretty fishy.
Thanks!
HDV 30f (XH-A1), iMac 17" 2 GHz duo core 3 GB, FCPS2 Lacie 1TB (with plenty of room to spare). Many subtitles, slow-motion, 3-way CC, transitions, all rendered in ProRes.
I have had suspiciously few problems. Always smooth playback. Was overjoyed, but now worried.
What i did:
created a sequence duplicate of the Final Edit. In duplicate sequence, control clicked audio track 1's visibility and exported>quicktime conversion>Aiff:
linear pcm
mono
16
best
Then repeated for all 6 tracks so i could tweak them individually in Pro Tools. maybe not the most efficient way, but that's the route i took. When clicking 'export', the computer said 'preparing video for display' took some time (the bar) said it again, took some time and then again... maybe normal? gave me an uneasy feeling, anyway...and lots of green and red 'needs render' bars on duplicate sequence (settings same as original)...
fine. i exported all the tracks. BUT, when i closed the duplicate sequence and tried to play the original, it ALL needed to be rendered for playback (a lot or rendering!!!). I did not re-render out of paranoia, i saved and closed the project and then went back to an earlier autosave. it opened fine and the original sequence showed it did NOT need to be rendered, BUT when i tried playing it back, it stuttered at the first transition and when stopped, showed everything needed rendering.
I know, i know... why don't i just re-render?? well, i have visions of being stuck in a 'render loop', where i always render my final edit (half hour per render), but it ALWAYS needs rendering...
just thought i'd ask if anyone has experienced this before i proceed, or any ideas WHY this should occur. seems pretty fishy.
Thanks!