Conforming w/hdv video -

I'm editing w/hdv video.
most renders require a timely 'conform.'
do I need this?
can I shut it off for my offline?

It's the nature of the HDV format. It has to build the GOP structure when it renders.

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  • *** Turning the "conforming HDV video" render OFF

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    I'm finished printing my projects to tape now, and when I'm not editing a new HDV project, each time I press option-R to render, it says "conforming HDV video". How do I turn this "off" so that it will just render out like it normally did in the past?
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  • Hi, I can't figure out why I can't render on my timeline. I highlight the segment hit "Apple-R" and it gives me a weird message about "conforming HDV video...." and the bar goes as far as 60-66% and holds there forever. It never renders even partially.

    Hi, I can't figure out why I can't render on my timeline. I highlight the segment hit "Apple-R" and it gives me a weird message about "conforming HDV video...." and the bar goes as far as 60-66% and holds there forever. It never renders even partially.

    Yes, I know. I have been working with HDV for some time. I am wondering why it doesn't render when it needs to.. the red and bright-green lines are above, and I've set the render settings such that ANYTHING I highlight and hit apple-R will render. But its not rendering at all.

  • Conforming HDV Video

    Hi All,
    I have composed around 3 dvds from Final Cut pro over the last couple of months. I am having problem with rendering. Before it was not taking long, I must have changed something in the settings as now when rendering it is coming up with conforming hdv video... can anyone help how I can get back to rendering quicker?? thanks

    plastique45 wrote:
    100% wrong.
    What you changed is the following:
    Sequence>Render All> Full. Uncheck it and when you render, you'll no longer get that Conforming HDV Video message.
    While DUCKY64 might have turned that setting on accidently, you do understand that this kind of guidance is of limited value for those who output to DVD, right?
    As mentioned in the Final Cut Pro 6: Working With High Definition and Broadcast Formats manual, an HDV timeline must be conformed prior to output. That includes export to QT Movie, the most common way folks get HDV media to Compressor (or any other encoder) in order to create .m2v files.
    Beside that, for all types of codecs, not just HDV, the (Dark Green) Full RT media must be rendered in order to be exported via the QT movie route. If you don't render it prior to export, of course, FCP performs the render during export. So, not a whole lot to be gained for folks making DVDs.
    It wasn't fair to say that Andy was 100% wrong. And resurrecting what is, considering the traffic on this forum, essentially a dead thread to make that statement wasn't cool.

  • Conforming HDV video takes ages!

    i shot some footage in hd 50i on my sony Z1 captured it all seems great - did the editing all fine (its a 3 min sequence), but now when i render it within the FCP timeline it seems to taking ages to "conforming HDV video" is this normal?
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    I hadn't seen that Michael so I appreciate the heads up.
    This HD-Connect MP2 unit looks to be a far more cost effective solution than the previous contender... up to now, for bi-directional conversion, I think the Canopus ADVCHDM1 has been pretty much our only option, though I had conveniently overlooked that when making my last post !
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  • *** Turning off "conforming HDV video" when renderring?

    Based on a previous post, and in the interest of speeding up my print to video time, in the sequence menu in the nav bar in FCP I changed "something" that means that whenever I render my HDV video now, it says "conforming HDV video". This is now slowing down my editing time because I don't want to conform the video every time I render a clip. Any idea how to turn this "off" for the time being? Is this even possible?

    When you select Sequence > Render All, that will Conform everything that gets rendered. If, instead, you first click to highlight the clips in the Timeline you want to render, and then select Sequence > Render Selection, FCP will only render, and will not conform.
    However, this will mean that when you Print to Video, Final Cut will have to conform the entire sequence, which will take a very long time.
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