Help anyone - can this be right?

mazzo wrote on 3/12/2002, 11:42 AM

When I try to print to tape, I get the message that over 80 percent has to be prerendered. So, for a 30 minute programme, it will prerender 148 files and use over four hours befor it starts to print. Is this OK or am I doing something wrong?

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Cheesehole wrote on 3/12/2002, 1:37 PM

if you have applied effects to any of your clips, they will have to be pre-rendered. also any transitions / composited areas will need to be pre-rendered.

to save time, make sure you apply effects at the clip level and not at the track level, unless you really need to affect the entire track.

mayberryman wrote on 3/12/2002, 1:39 PM

yes...it can be right....and I'm betting that you have some "special effects" (e.g. slo-mo) in there. You will find, that it won't (probably) take anywhere near the predicted time....as soon as vv3 hits the slo-mo (as an example) it will "do" dozens (if not hundreds) of the "files" in a matter of a couple of minutes. This will cause your predicted time to fall like a rock. I rendered a video last night. The 80% message came up telling me I would have 347 files to render. After the 5th file (each of the 1st 5 took a couple of minutes) my predicted remaining time was over 6 hours. It then flew through files 6 thru 343 in about 4 minutes. Total rendering time...about 17 minutes.

Control_Z wrote on 3/12/2002, 7:24 PM

Also, make sure your track transparency sliders haven't moved from 100%. Since they can't be locked, they often move when you move your scroll wheel.