GoPro3 sequence settings still have to render?

I have converted all my files with MPEG streamclip, I've changed my sequence settings and I still have to render my video clips when I bring them into my timeline, why?!  So frustrating!

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  • 12 GBs of RAM and Still Have To Render?

    My question probably belies some fundamental misunderstanding of the rendering process, and yet I have to wonder.
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    Basic transitions, e.g. cross dissolve, dip to color, still require rendering.
    I get the warning about RT, and have fiddled with that, and perhaps I need to study that more. I also wonder about the original media.
    We're mixing HD shots with a sequence set for SD. Is that perhaps what's causing this reaction?
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    12 GBs of RAM and Still Have To Render?
    RAM has very little to do with rendering. In most cases, rendering is a task of the processors and in some cases, a task of the graphics card.
    As Luca has already stated, FCP, being a 32 bit application, can only address about 2.5gb of RAM. You'll find that working with codecs native to FCP, less rendering (if any) will be required initially.
    -DH

  • Importing leaves me with audio a few seconds off and I still have to render

    When I import the last few times, I have to render the sequence after wards. this means that I cannot edit from the sequence in the file. Frustrating! Also, my sound is always a few seconds off after I import. So I have to shift the sound or the video over to match.
    Anyone know why is this happening?
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    That is all the details that I can think of putting up. Oh and I have 400gigs available on my drive if that makes any difference.
    Also, i just digitized again, but only for one minute of footage and it was fine. So I cheered and said yahhhh! So then I went to digitize the entire one hour tape again, and the sound is still off.
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  • I still have to render in FCP even after mpeg streamclip - help

    I am using some footage from an app on iPhone 4 that is 480x360.  Even after plugging this footage through Mpeg Streamclip, I cannot use it without having to render in FCP every single time I move it on the timeline.  Someone save me from killing myself, please lol.

    epodos wrote:
    Sorry, yes.  I did that step.  It never asks me to conform - I can just put anything in any sequence and nothing ever pops up to ask me.
    Then you have this option switched of in your Preferences. Switch it on, to make it happen. And notice it will only happen on NEW sequences. (What version of FCP are you using by the way?
    As long as your sequence settings don't match nothing will ever work.
    Switch it ON.
    Go to User Preferences in FCP, and make sure you have this in the Editing tab:
    Also, the program won't allow me to change the frame rate to that odd number.  For some reason the framerates in different clips put through Streamclip range from 69.93, 70.93, 71.93, etc - so odd.
    In MPEG streamclip fill in a framerate. I think you did leave it blanco. Fill all in like this:
    Click images to see them full screen. Notice the Framerate box.
    Then import that in FCP.
    If you fixed the User Preferences, tehn dropping the footage into a new sequence would give you the dialog.
    If that doesn't happen open the sequence settings. In the lower left corner choose Load Sequence Preset and choose the appropriate setting. It should look like this:
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  • [Solved - KDE 4.6] No desktop effects, but still have 3D render

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  • Downconverting HD to SD:  Change Sequence Settings or. Motion Tab ???

    I'm working with 1080i DVCPro HD footage, which am editing in HD. The client wants me to deliver the project file with HD and SD sequences (with identical cuts) but SD Quicktime renders.
    So the HD sequences are easy ... under Sequence Settings I have these specs, which allow me to edit the footage without having to render:
    Frame Size 1280x 1080, Aspect Ratio HD (1280x1080)(16x9)
    Pixel Aspect Ratio: HD (1280x1080) - Ananmorphic NOT checked
    Field Dominance: Upper (odd)
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    SO ... the best way to downconvert to SD ... I'm figuring copying the HD sequences after the edits are done, and then changing Sequence Settings to these specs:
    Frame Size: 720x480 NTSC DV (3:2)
    Pixel Aspect Ratio: NTSC - CCIR 601 DV (720x480) - Anamorphic NOT checked
    Field Dominance: Lower (even)
    Editing Timebase: 29.97
    Compressor: DV/DVCPro NTSC
    I'm not delivering Anamorphic; the SD renders will have letterboxing. BUT unless I tweek the footage's Motion settings, it still looks distorted. The footage looks the most normal after shrinking the Scale to 60% of original, and changing the Aspect Ratio to -60.
    But I'm just eye-balling things ... is there a precise rule for downconverting this HD format to standard SD ?

    Umm well OK I found the Advanced Format Conversion option in Compressor, and am testing that out now.
    But for academics, let's just say I want to convert the sequences also ... as in, exporting normal SD Quicktimes directly from FCP's sequence without using compressor ... which Sequence Settings and Motion Settings would I change?

  • Capturing 24p, and have to render every clip.

    Hi all. Thanks for your time. After reading all the 24p articles in here, I thought I had it straight: I shot 24p normal (16:9) on an xl2, and captured it on FCP 4.5 using the "DV NTSC 48 kHz Anamorphic" setting for Capture as well as for the Sequence Preset. However, I still have to render (red line) ever time I bring a clip into the timeline! What am I doing wrong?? Please someone help, and thank you for your time.

    You shooting in PAL land? You have a PAL camera????
    Stating the obvious, but thought I'd get that out of the way...
    Do us a favor... find the item properties window for the CAPTURED clips and read it down for us.
    Then... Apple-Zero the sequence you've created and read down THOSE settings.
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  • Sequence settings help needed

    10.6.7
    FCE 4.0.1
    I've only dabbled with FCE occasionally, but this always seems to trip me up.  I cannot seem to get my sequences to match my video reliably.  Here is a link to the media file info, and every choice I make in sequence settings still needs rendering, though the clips play fine in the viewer.  (Mor info on what I'm trying to do is below the image).
    No matter what I do (new project, etc.) FCE does not ask me to match the sequence to the clips being dropped onto the timeline.
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/367778/Misc/FCE_01.jpg
    I've been trying to sort this issue off & on for a while.  If I can get this sorted I'll be a happy guy.  I have a Canon HG20 camera that shoots in MTS format.  I've tried a few converter apps, and most recently (today) settled on trying to use Brorsoft's MTS Converter, since I bought it a while back AND it now has a FCE export setting specifically.  I just can't get FCE to let me work without rendering every single thing on the timeline.  I must be doing something wrong here.
    Please help!!!

    Alchroma wrote:
    Frame Size:  1440 x 810
    This will never work with FCE correctly.
    How did the file get to this size???
    Your HG20 should work with FCE directly and you should be able to set the correct Sequence.
    Do you know exactly what the camera is set to record and output? This info has a direct bearing on it's operation within FCE.
    Al
    I know - right?!!  It's crazy but all the converter apps I've tried that convert from MTS files to a claimed FCE or FCP preset do so in some screwy way.  I wish I didn't have to convert first but FCE won't recognize the MTS files.
    The Canon HG20 is difficult to get accurate info on, but:
    It appears to be set to 1080i at 60i fps (which it claims is standard). 
    The "quality" setting I use is the XP+ which claims to be 12Mbps.
    Other than that, I get no feedback on what the file type & settings are. Since Quicktime cannot open the files as MTS, the only thing I can check it with is VLC which reports it as 1440 x 1080 (see attached image below).  FCE will not let me import the recorded files without converting them with something first.
    It's all terribly frustrating.  This camera & codec have been out & in consumer hands since at least 3 years ago, and the Mac and FCE still don't want to play nice with it.  It sure would be nice to get this figured out and so that I can work with it in as lossless a capacity as possible.
    Message was edited by: DaveF - added VLC image for media info

  • CC 2014 trial. MPEG MOVIE clips flickering on my time line! after render, and after export. tried all kinds of sequence settings,taking out transitions and effects ,even the audio tracks.....still flickering. They play fine outa the project files!?  HELLL

    CC 2014 trial. MPEG MOVIE clips flickering on my time line! after render, and after export. tried all kinds of sequence settings,taking out transitions and effects ,even the audio tracks.....still flickering. They play fine outa the project files!?  HELLLLLPPPPP!!!!

    We can not see your computer, your settings or even know what your source files are because we are not in the same room as you are!
    We cant see what you are doing wrong ...so you will have to tell us a lot more and show us some screen grabs of your settings.

  • Sequence and Capture Settings Match, Still Need To Render

    I am capturing my video footage through a AJA Kona board using the SDI input. I have set my capture setting in FCP to 525 29.97 DV, and have set my sequence setting to match, also 525 29.97 DV. Yet when I overwrite the footage to the the sequence it needs to be rendered. I was under the impression that if the sequence and capture settings match I would not have to render. Is this not true?

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  • My 2008 Mac Pro running Lion will not play HDV1080i60 footage in FCP 7. When I open the sequence settings, all HDV codecs are hdv1, hdv2, hdv3, and so forth. Anyone have any idea how to fix this?

    My 2006 - 2008 Mac Pro running Lion will not play HDV 1080i60 footage in FCP 7. When I open the sequence settings, all HDV codecs are hdv1, hdv2, hdv3, and so forth. However, when I open the project on my other Mac Pro running Snow Leopard and FCP 6, the footage works fine as it does on my newer Imac running Mavericks and FCP 7. I have tried a Quicktime update on the Mac Pro that the footage doesn't work on but it says that I already have the newest version of Quicktime installed. I have also tried reinstalling the Final Cut Pro Studio twice, still no fix. I'm completely out of solutions and need to be able to edit HDV footage on this machine. Any help would be great. Thanks.

    there was a recent software update that seemed to screw HDV up.  Do some searching here over the last month or 2 and you'll find a bunch of posts and some possible solutions.
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  • Sequence settings / render confusion

    Hi,
    One thing with FCP I never seem to understand is the way that it deals with sequence settings. I always find myself thinking: Final Cut Pro is smart, why can't it just figure out what my clip settings are and adjust it so that I don't have to do a render?
    Quite frequently, I will get a video, and think that I understand exactly what format it is, etc.. and I will drag it into FCP and set the settings to match, and the red-line will persist, and force me to render... I just don't understand this.
    Just now, I used Snap-Z-Pro to do a screen capture, and I recorded audio with my microphone via logic pro.. So I had an aiff and this quicktime .mov file (animation compression, 30fps) 921 x 926... All I wanted to do was combine them together, and export them to compressor so that I could make an h.264 video and upload it to the web.
    I brought the video into FCP, told the sequence settings to be Animation.. I got the red line...
    I set the resolution to custom, pixel aspect to square.. set the x & y to 921 and 926...
    red line...
    I also noticed that the clip attributes in the bin/browser show hat it is "10fps" when snapzpro recorded at 30fps, and it certainly does not look like 10fps.
    ... Anyway.. Lastly, I took a small 5 second clip and exported it to compressor to see how it looked.. And it looks awful. The frame size is super small and surrounded by black--- Even though the frame size of the sequence settings matches the frame size of the video! How do I tell FCP to just leave the original material alone and let me just add audio to it?
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    First off, you need to use Cinema Tools to conform your footage to 30fps. SnapzPro doesn't make a solid 30fps...it wavers when you play back. Cinema Tools will lock the frame rate...basically add timecode to lock thing into place. Dunno why Snapz does what it does.
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    http://proappstuff.com/proapptipsvideotutorials/194F4DC2-ACBB-4DD6-A1D0-F46D7D8D CAFC/739BE552-5A0A-474C-8792-537C4082427B.html
    Lastly...Animation is not an editing codec. It is an uncompressed codec that makes huge files and requires more than a firewire drive to play back...talking decent RAID here. If you converted to a different lighter codec then playback would be smoother.
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  • Why do I have to render all of my HDV 1080i60 MultiCam Sequence

    I have two HDV camra angle's in my multicam sequence.
    I did realtime cuts between them but why do i need to render the whole sequence. I have half an hour of HDV, that takes along time. It also take's hours to render a portion of the video that i sent to motion for titling. This is really slowing me down.
    Do you always have to render a multicam sequence?

    No it wouldn't have to render except for effects that aren't real time.
    The problem with HDV is it's not an all "i" frame format. Only 1 in 15 frames is a whole frame, the rest of the frames only contain the difference between the frames before and after (sort of)... but if you don't edit on an i frame, the video has to be rewritten in effect, creating a new GOP structure. (Group of pictures with an i frame every 15... in long gop anyway... there's short gop too.)
    Most all other codecs are all i frame codecs.. every frame's information is there... so it's easier for the computer to deal with it.
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  • Best Sequence settings for Panasoic Dvx100a...still trying to slow mo.

    Ok, so im editing this guys film. He filmed on his Dvx100a at 24p with this Scene advance look thing on....not to sure that the Scene advance look does...
    Anyways. We are..as we have posted a few times before trying to slow a few shots...everything looks like it could be better. What should are Sequence settings be set at? right now they are
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    FCP has a distinct slow motion look, I personally find it distinctly unappealing. As previous posts have suggested, you should do the slow motion work in shake.
    shake is a completely different beast than final cut. I recommend taking a look at the below link- it's a wonderful tutorial by the captain.
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    In conclusion, Getting a really good film-like slow motion look is going to be impossible because there just are not enough images being captured on the tape per second when shooting in 24Pa mode. But shake will do a better job at it than final cut.
    Good luck.

  • Questions regarding sequence settings, render, and export

    Just a couple of questions:
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    Then, most importantly, when exporting what is my best possible output with the least amount of quality loss? For mediocore quality i've been exporting through h.264 or sorenson 3 - for a bit higher DV NTSC PRO, for max uncompressed 8 bit.... how about the other settings? deinterlace? cbr or vbr? etc..
    Much thanks - I'm a lot confused concerning the technical usage of the program. B)

    Hi David, thank you for the reply and welcome.
    Just to clarify my workflow a bit more - I'm importing mini dv footage, but i'm altering that pretty much extensively with many overlays, in program effects, and various exterior plugins such as boris red, magic bullet, twixtor, etc.. Would mantaining a sequence suited for dv ntsc make sense if mantaining those effect's and overlay's vibrancy, motion, and color is key? Or should I then change my sequence settings to animation or uncompressed 8 or something other?
    What I want for final output is a pristine master (basically I want what I see is what I get) that I can then downcompress for either internet (h264?) or dvd without too much headache. I think Animation only plays on computers? Would it hurt quality badly moving it to a dvd that is playable on dvd players? Or is another setting that I don't know the solution?
    Does it hurt quality if I render it at lower draft settings and dv ntsc and then when i'm done change my sequence settings to higher settings and change it to, say, animation, AND THEN re-render and export to my sequence codec? I'm assuming no, because I'm still working with my original capture source, but just checking.
    thanks again David, and to anyone that may be able to help! B)
    Message was edited by: eric sanpablo

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