No need to render first with Compressor?

I dragged a video filter (Flop) onto the timeline of FCP (which created a green bar) and I notice that Compressor does not complain that the video has not been renderd when I submit as Quicktime conversion does. Is it compressing only the renderd portion?

If you send it unrendered the Compressor will do the rendering instead of FInal Cut Pro. Compressor does a much better job of rendering than FCP, but when you do it this way you can't use FCP until the job is finished.

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Still need to render after using Compressor 4...

Hi there.
Having a small problem figuring out why I still need to render a video clip after using Compresor 4.
I am able to add the fiile to Compressor 4 successfully.
I select "Apple ProRes-422" as my codec
I chose a destination and click submit.
It takes the file - and does its thing and places it in the correct folder.
When I go to Final Cut Express (4.0.1)- and "Import" the file - I see the long red line at the top and it says my clip is unrendered...
It seemed so straight forward when I looked at the YouTube videos...
I am currently on Lion...
Thanks,
SparkyCanada

That would explain it...
Thanks!
SparkyCanada

I am installing snow leopard on a new drive unformatted but it does not show the disk to install it on.? do i need to format first with one partition?

I have installed a new drive on my mac book and more ram but the snow leopard install asks which to install the system on but then does not show the drive.
do I have to partition it and name it first. -- if so just one partition?

Do this:
Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
When formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the OS X installation.

Do I need to render first?

Hi all,
Have got myself FCE 4 for my MBP,
my question is this, I have a video clip (with audio) that I have dragged onto my timeline.
I want to delete the audio as I have no need for it, how do I do this please?
FCE is telling me that both the video and audio require rendering, do I have to complete this before FCE will allow me to delete the audio?
K RGDS jonyfoz

Click the unlinking button at the top right of the timeline and then you should be able to select the audio and delete it.
It sounds as though you are using some unsupported video format.

How to make a render farm with FCP X / Compressor??

Wondering how to setup a min render farm with FCP X on three machines. Played around with setting in Compressor but never see any machine available when I go to render on each machine?

Ok, so I'm using the wrong terminology.
I want to have all my machines transcode for me, is this possible, yes or no and how do I set it up. I've buggered around with all the settings in the link above but I'd get anything to show up?
Also I believe that compressor needs to copy the entire file to be rendered over the network for the other machine to work on it - is this correct ? I'm on wifi guess I could connect machines together via ethernet.
I'm looking at 4x time to do a simple render on prores proxy material and when I have to do it on a 2 hour wedding video I'll be looking for the nearest bridge to jump off!

I need advise and help with this problem . First , I have been with Mac for many years ( 14 to be exact ) I do have some knowledge and understanding of Apple product . At the present time I'm having lots of problems with the router so I was looking in to

I need advise and help with this problem .
First , I have been with Mac for many years ( 14 to be exact ) I do have some knowledge and understanding of Apple product .
At the present time I'm having lots of problems with the router so I was looking in to some info , and come across one web site regarding : port forwarding , IP addresses .
In my frustration , amongst lots of open web pages tutorials and other useless information , I come across innocent looking link and software to installed called Genieo , which suppose to help with any router .
Software ask for permission to install , and about 30 % in , my instinct was telling me , there is something not right . I stop installation . Delete everything , look for any
trace in Spotlight , Library . Nothing could be find .
Now , every time I open Safari , Firefox or Chrome , it will open in my home page , but when I start looking for something in steed of Google page , there is
''search.genieo.com'' page acting like a Google . I try again to get raid of this but I can not find solution .
With more research , again using genieo.com search eng. there is lots of articles and warnings . From that I learn do not use uninstall software , because doing this will install more things where it come from.
I do have AppleCare support but its to late to phone them , so maybe there some people with knowledge , how to get this of my computer
Any help is welcome , English is my learned language , you may notice this , so I'm not that quick with the respond

Genieo definitely doesn't help with your router. It's just adware, and has no benefit to you at all. They scammed you so that they could display their ads on your computer.
To remove it, see:
http://www.thesafemac.com/arg-genieo/
Do not use the Genieo uninstaller!

I have photoshop CC. I cannot open two files such as Tiffs and view them side by side. When I open the second file it overrides the first. Do I need to do something with preferences?

I have photoshop CC. I cannot open two files such as Tiffs and view them side by side. When I open the second file it overrides the first. Do I need to do something with preferences?

What happens when you try to use the clone stamp tool?
It should work with the images side by side.
You can setup photoshop cc to be like photoshop cs2 was on your other mac, by going to Photoshop>Preferences>Interface and unchecking
Open Documents as Tabs and Enable Floating Document Window Docking
And also going to Window and unchecking Application Frame

Do I need to render before Compressor?

Sorry about this newbie question. After coming back from Color, my timeline has the red lines on top of the clips. Do I need to render before to straight export via Compressor ? Or is Compressor sort of does the render? thx.

It makes no difference whether you render or not because FCP hands over the raw frames to Compressor. Compressor ignores all FCP render files.

Do I have to render first before I export?

Do I have to render first before I export? Or can I export without rendering?And will exporting take care of all the necessary rendering? I have done it both ways and it doesn't seem to make a difference, but I was wondering what is the preferred method.

Kevan D. Holdsworth wrote:
I'm not really saying to render or not to render. I just remember discussions about this a couple years back...conventional wisdom being seeming to indicate that if you're exporting to Compressor, you benefitted from NOT rendering, because Compressor then wasn't encoding 'altering' a signal that was already rendered 'altered' (depending on effects/treatment of video in the timeline, rendering altered the native state of the media.)
Yeah Kevan, unrendered sequences sent directly to Compressor produce better quality -- for FCS 2009 too -- but only when exporting sequences with very compressed codecs (DV, HDV) out to MPEG-2 files (e.g., for DVD). Even then, sequences need to have serious compositing or color-correction work done in FCP (meaning layers and/or filters) for it to be worthwhile.
There is NO benefit to doing this (for any sequence codec type or composite level) when exporting out to h.264, to use another common export format as an example, at least in my experience.

Deinterlacing with compressor

I've shot some footage with 2 different cameras and didn't realise that one was 25i and one was 25p. When I put them both in finalcut pro x it needs to render everytime I do an edit. I'm trying to deinterlace with compressor but just wanted to check the best settings to use. The original footage is from a Sony camcorder (HDR-CX6) 1440 x 1080, h.264, 10,235 bit rate, and 25i. In compressor I made this setting:
Name: i to p
Description: 25i to 25p
File Extension: mov
Estimated size: unknown
Audio Encoder
          16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Stereo (L R), 48.000 kHz
Video Encoder
          Width: (100% of source)
          Height: (100% of source)
                    Selected: 1440 x 1080
          Pixel aspect ratio: HD (1440x1080)
          Crop: None
          Padding: None
          Frame rate: (100% of source)
                    Selected: 25
          Frame Controls On:
                    Retiming: (Fast) Nearest Frame
                    Resize Filter: Linear Filter
                    Deinterlace Filter: Better (Motion Adaptive)
                    Adaptive Details: On
                    Antialias: 0
                    Detail Level: 0
                    Field Output: Progressive
          Codec Type: H.264
          Multi-pass: On, frame reorder: On
          Pixel depth: 24
          Spatial quality: 100
          Min. Spatial quality: 25
          Key frame interval: 24
          Temporal quality: 50
          Min. temporal quality: 25
Is that ok or is there a better way? The encoding seems to be getting longer and longer (already at 3+ hours) When I had it on apple codec the file was going to swell to about 84gig and take over 80 hours!
Any help would be much appreciated.

Have you tried jes deinterlacer ?
It's a free app and many people swear by it. I've even read where some folks have converted to ProRes and deinterlaced with Jes and had great results.
You really should convert to ProRes before deinterlacing. I know the file size is shocking at first but you really want a good stable codec if you want a smooth editing experience. Especially considering that you're working with mixed media. Make them all the same codec and you'll have a much better experience.
Another cool free app is MpegStreamclip, which does a fantastic job at file conversions.
I use compressor sometimes but find it sort of convoluted for simple tasks.
Hope that helps.
g

Ingested videos not playing in stereo with Quicktime or after exporting with compressor

Why does it seem like every time I try to do something just mildly complex I'm stymied by some bug or problem with the software?
Here's the deal:
0) I have footage was shot with a stereo camcorder, a JVC GR-DV3000 (circa 2003), with built-in stereo mics.
1) I ingest the footage from the Mini DV tape and save it to a camera archive using Final Cut Pro X (latest version).
2) I use Final Cut Pro to pull the events out of archive.
3) When the events are played from within Final Cut Pro X, I hear strereo and audio meters indicate the audio is in stereo (left and right channels have different volume levels).
4) When the events are played with the open source software, VLC, I hear stereo, too.
5) When I export the files for playing on an Apple device using Final Cut Pro, the audio is in stereo as you would expect.
BUT:
5) When I play the event clips with QuickTime from my hard drive after step 2 above, I get no audio from the right channel. Weird, right?
But most annoying of all:
6) When I use Compressor 4 (instead of Final Cut) to output the event clips to "SD for Apple Devices" using the default audio settings, I get no audio from the right channel, either.
7) I've got hundreds, if not thousands, of clips. I'm not about to save each clip manually with FCPX. I need to batch convert these files with Compressor.
8) I've tried various combinations of the audio import settings ("Analyze and fix audio problems," "Separate mono and group stereo audio," and "Remove silent channels." These options have not solved the issue for me. The clips still play in mono in QuickTime.
When I look at the properties of the file in QuickTime, here's what it shows:
DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, 720 x 480 (640 x 480)
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 32000 Hz, Left
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 32000 Hz, Unused
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 32000 Hz, Unused
Linear PCM, 16 bit little-endian signed integer, 32000 Hz, Unused
Why it's telling me the other 3 channels are unused, I have no idea. As I mentioned, the footage was shot in stereo and even Final Cut plays it in stereo.
Here's what VLC says about the very same file:
Stream 0:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: Mono
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bits per sample: 16
Stream 1:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Stream 2:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Stream 3:
Type: Audio
Codec:PCM S16 LE (sowt)
Channels: 1
Sample Rate: 32000 Hz
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Stream 4:
Type: Video
Codec: (DV Video (dvc)
Resolution: 720 x 480
Frame Rate: 29.970030
Decoded Format: Planar 4:1:1 YUV
If anyone can point in the right direction, I'd much appreciate it.

I ended up just using iMovie to capture video from the camera. The clips now play in stereo in QuickTime perfectly.
It's interesting to note that iMovie saves the clips as .dv file types, not .mov file types like FCPX does.
And it turns out the iMovie capture is *much* smoother. It actually "just works." Ingesting tapes with FCPX, I had to cross my fingers, spin on my head and pray three times to a statue of Steve Jobs before it would work (and even then it would do weird stuff).
The only downside of using iMovie is that it doesn't have the camera archive feature.
I really don't understand why, with $120 billion in the bank, Apple seems to be churning out software as an afterthought. No, software is not where they make their money, but they are ruining their reputation. Ah, well, first world problems.

Problem with compressor 2.01

Hallo everyone.
I've a great problem with compressor 2.01 and Final cut pro 5.04.
When I try to export a movie from final cut to compressor, all the two application crash.
All is regular when I export the movie with Quick time.
This happens to me for the first time I used Final cut.
The second problem is that when I try to reinstall compressor from the original CD, compressor is gray and not black.
I've used yet every possibilities also with Disk warrior applcation without succes
Please help me. Thank you

You need to update to Compressor 2.3.1 for Leopard compatibility.
Use Software Update, under the Apple menu item at top left of your screen, or look here: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/download/

Do I need to render after finished editing in FCE?

I'm finishing my very first FCEHD3.5 project (the whole audio & video editing part). DO I HAVE TO RENDER ANYTHING befor recording to the camera, using the method that you described?
(I used some photos in my project and they look "funny" while played from the timeline and watched in the canvas; photos are funny in terms of flickering, moving pixels along edges of objects, etc. - would any rendering help with this?).
And, in general - what about the rendering? -(this is my 1st project, so I have no experience there)Do I need to render anything? Or should I just print to camera, and find a way to burn the project in iDVD..?
MacBook Pro 17 inch Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2GB RAM, 100GB7200HD, Super Drive, FCEHD3.5, PanasonicPVGS500, G-Raid ExtHD320GB

The easiest way to do this is, first make sure you don't have any clips at all selected in the timeline, then just do the Render All > Video and the Render Only > Mixdown. FCE will take care of things from there.
The length of time it takes to render the video depends on a whole lot of factors ranging from what kinds of effects/generators you used in your clips, how many there are, how long they are, whether or not any are already rendered, etc. plus all the hardware specs/capabilites of your Mac ... all of which makes it really hard to estimate how much time it will take.
Mixdown audio takes all your audio tracks and builds an 'audio render' file that contains 1 stereo pair resulting from all your audio tracks. It goes a lot faster than rendering video does ... and btw helps reduce/eliminate problems with dropped frames.
Your MacBookPro has great specs, you should find this goes pretty well, but I still really can't estimate your render time. Take a look at your timeline - over how much of it does the red 'needs rendering' indicator line show? That would give you some indication - at least short vs. long.
Good luck!

Do I need to Render every time I make a to the audio or video?

Today is the first time I have seriously considered using Final Cut Pro. This software was purchased for me (without my knowing) by the company I am working for to be used for simple editing and exporting. Recently I have been using iMovie and have been creating adequate videos, but figured it is time to upgrade to a "pro" software. That has been a big mistake.
It seems like every time I make a change to the subclip in the timeline I need to Render the movie; if not, additions like transitions, audio filters, or simple changes are unplayable. For instance, when I adjust an audio filter (hum remover, for example) and try to preview the movie in the canvas, all I see is video accompanied by an annoying beeping sounding. Once I render the movie, I can I finally hear the expected audio.
I am convinced I am doing something wrong, but I haven't noticed my mistakes in the help sections. Do I need to Render the audio/video every time I want to make a change and preview said change? Can someone point me in the right direction?

#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.
Shane

Can I Encode to These Settings with Compressor??

Greetings,
I need some help from you good people.
I have been tasked with preparing our video program for an SD Television Broadcast.
In my many years of using Final Cut, I have never had to export for an official SD Broadcast. So I declare up front that this is a new world for me from web and DVD creation.
But I seem to be having a hard time matching all of these settings using an MPEG-2 Transport Stream in Compressor. So I want to know if I can use Compressor to match these settings or will I miss some of what the station wants?
I've tracked down most of the major settings in Compressor. I highlighted below in bold and red what I am having trouble with.
I will also add that I was trying to work with the GOP I and P frames settings but do not see a choice for selecting 1 frame for each one.
Most of my other issues are with the audio settings. I went to "Extras" and selected Multiplex but don't have any other control over the audio.
So any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
These are the requirement sent from the station:
(BOLD AND RED are what I need help with)
VIDEO:
MPG TYPE: MPG-2
STREAM TYPE: PROGRAM (VIDEO + AUDIO)
VIDEO RESOLUTION: 720x480
FRAME RATE: 29.97 (NON-DROP) 4:3 DISPLAY
FIELD ENCODING: TOP FIELD FIRST
DEINTERLACING: USE TOP FIELD
BITRATE TYPE: VARIABLE (If they say a variable type, why would they state a Constant Bit Rate below??)
RATE CONTROL MODE: MODE 1
CBR BITRATE: 8000Kbps
GOP STRUCTURE:
I FRAMES: 1
P FRAMES: 1
PROFILE ID: 4:2:2
LEVEL ID: MAIN LEVEL
AUDIO: MPEG 1
AUDIO MODE: MPEG LAYER 2
AUDIO FREQUENCY: 48000 HZ STEREO
BITRATE: 256 KBPS* VARIABLE BITRATE EMBEDDED
MODE: STEREO
NO DE-EMPHASIS
MULTIPLEXING TYPE: MPG-2
Thanks in advance!
-Al

Disclosure: I haven't prepared a show for SD Broadcast either, but have been working with Compressor/DVDStudio Pro for a decade.
Looking at the specs, there are only a couple of unclear areas... the big thing is, they're asking for a Program Stream rather than Elementary Streams.
I looked into that codec and it seems capable of handling the task once you clear up the VBR/CBR and interlace/de-interlace questions.
Good luck!

No need to render first with Compressor?

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