Tsunami and pre-rendered files

Tom Pauncz wrote on 3/3/2004, 9:09 AM

I hope someone can enlighten me (jetdv??).

I am using Tsunami's 'Select Events' function. As soon as the script finishes (events are selected) ALL the prerenders disappear. I have not changed any of the events before the selected events nor have I moved any of the selected events along the timeline.

What gives?
Thanks,
Tom

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jetdv wrote on 3/3/2004, 10:03 AM

I'm not sure what would be causing that problem with Select Events in Tsunami. I cannot see anything that would cause that effect in the code. Of course, I'll have to try it now :-)

Question: Were you allowing Tsunami to split the events at the cursor location? If yes, splitting an event could cause that problem.

I can definitely say that Excalibur AND Neon will cause that problem, though. Both of them create and remove a new track upon startup.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 3/3/2004, 10:20 AM

Hi Ed,
No. I wasn't splitting anything. The only options I had checked were 'All After Cursor' & 'Include Events Under Cursor'.

I just wanted to move all events from under cursor to end. I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that I had 'Auto Ripple - All Tracks, Markers and Regions' set.

That was deliberate, as I needed all of those to move - especially the Regions. Most (if not all) of the tracks had trackmotion keyframes and of course, those had to move with the events.

Thanks for looking into this.
Tom

jetdv wrote on 3/3/2004, 10:49 AM

I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that I had 'Auto Ripple - All Tracks, Markers and Regions' set.

Possibly. To be honest, I almost NEVER prerender so that wouldn't be a part of my normal testing. If I want a section rendered, I'll either render and replace OR render to a new track.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 3/3/2004, 11:14 AM

..either render and replace..
Can you explain that a bit. I must be missing some subtlety here.

I selectively prerender, so I can see timing etc. for complex effects. Often playing in real-time is not smooth enough for me to see.

Thanks,
Tom

jetdv wrote on 3/3/2004, 12:06 PM

The other two methods are:

Do a File-Render As for that section and then replace the section with the newly rendered file.

Do a Tools - Render to New Track which will create a new track above the current edit effectively replacing it. However, simply deleting the track above will take you back to the original edit.

Tom Pauncz wrote on 3/3/2004, 12:43 PM

Gotcha.
So in the render-&-replace, you are essentially collapsing the timeline for that section into a new clip. The original edit is then ???

I guess this is workflow semantics. Once you've 'Rendered as...' you may as well build a separate project from those clips as it is almost like 'Render to new track'.

Thanks for clearing it up.
Tom