Rendering drives me nuts on Final Cut. I use footage from multiple sources and premiere or sony vegas can accept it. It seems that Final Cut has a closed system, and is designed not to be able to use imported clips from or to multiple platforms. When are they going to open up?
Good luck! D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Sheldon Pineo" <icen...@...> wrote: > > Ok folks. Santa brought me a 4gig MBP and a copy of FCE 4. I've been using > Premiere Pro 1.5 for the past few years and wanted to switch to something > that can handle HD. > > I'm working on a simple sequence using a green screen and some simple > graphics. My problem is in rendering. First, Real Time rendering, even > with the frame rate set low, stops due to dropping frames so it's not > possible to watch the sequence. > If I switch to safe render, nothing shows until the sequence is rendered > which takes 15 minutes for a 2 minute segment! Then, if I make a change, it > wants to render again. > > Seeing the number of people on this list with MBPs and using FC Pro, I know > most, if not all, of my problems are settings, or something very simple. > Any ideas on how I can make this a better experience? > > Oh. Original footage is from my Canon HV30 shot in HDV mode. > > Thanks! > Shel. > -- > www.icenrye.com > www.icenrye.blogspot.com > www.icenryelikes.blogspot.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
