Rendering Live Type Timeline

everytime i change anything in my timeline, it has to be re-rendered. ( the red comes up ). Do i need more ramm or what. it's very frustrating.
please help

Generally, if something requires rendering, indicated by a red line on your timeline, then you will have to render it every time you move it, even if you have already rendered it.
But there could be several reasons as to why it is requiring you to render as well...for example, you may be working on a DV video (standard definition), but your FC settings are set up for HDV (high definition), or vise versa, which would require rendering every time you do something. Additionally, it could be your system, where, like you said, it may need more RAM, or the processor might be too slow.
Like the previous poster said, I would look into the tutorials. However, Apple's tutorials are very basic and don't run through every aspect of the program. I would suggest looking into Total Training's "Final Cut Pro 5: The Essentials", and that will help you a lot.
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What Patrick means is that FCP's rendering is destructive. Or, rather, it's constructive. If you put something on top of another track, you must render it to see it in real time. If you move one of the parts of the combined tracks, of course it has to re-render because the relationships have changed.
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This is something specific to FCP4.x ... it does not appear in FCP5.x
Final Cut Pro HD: LiveType does not appear in the External Editors tab
Under some circumstances, the External Editors tab (choose Final Cut Pro HD > System Settings) in Final Cut Pro HD does not display a setting for "LiveType Movie Files."
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If you add a LiveType project file (for example, MyProject.ipr) to the Timeline and then choose to open it in an External Editor, the file will open automatically in LiveType as a LiveType project.
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DavidG21 wrote:
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