Should i render before export fcp

SSDs are very, very fast! This is a great question. This is a new-ish behavior and I have no idea why. Renders should remain rendered. Thanks, Larry. I have tested these two ways applying the identical Lut, and am somewhat bewildered that no re-rendering happens. The first has involved including this Lut as a Custom Camera Lut, but this way, of course, results in the Lut being applied to all instances of the same clip — not an acceptible result.

Strange it seems that these two other application ways, involving the same lut, trigger no re-rendering. Your email address will not be published. Access over 1, on-demand video editing courses. Become a member of our Video Training Library today! Posted on May 19, by Larry. May 25, at am. Mike laib says:. April 19, at am. Larry says:. Larry Larry. Shaun Budhan says:. May 4, at am. Hey Larry! For all of the above reasons, my preference is not to pre-render. I usually work with Quality set to Better Performance and render selectively Control-R only when necessary to adjust an edit.

Everything said here is correct, but I always render before export even though is not necessary. Just a habit. Here is interesting thread about this, Ben B and Ronny gives good explanations. Mar 23, AM in response to innocentius In response to innocentius.

Thanks for the link! Ben and Ronny filled in lots of information that I had not grasped from Wolsky's otherwise fine book and there's no way one can get that concept from Apple's Help system explanations. I'll go back and reread both Tom's book and Apple's newbie stuff with a better idea of what they're really trying to tell me. I render before exporting because that's how my head works and that's how I have always worked.

Back in the olden days of Ye Olde Media we'd capture from beta cam at low rez, edit, and then put the tapes back in the deck to recapture at high rez and everything would re-render.

Got it now! Those were two great posts. I was interested in Ben's statement that he never rendered before export in legacy FCP. Legacy versions of FCP were my primary editor for years and perhaps it was my hardware but I invariably had big difficulties coping with unrendered timelines.

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I could and will do some testing on my own, but I want to hear what the big dogs think! Jeremy Garchow August 21, at pm. Make sense? Thats exactly what I thought. Andreas Karoliussen August 21, at pm.

For an un-rendered timeline FCPX has to render and write the timeline which is usually much slower, depending on what has to render. Yes, brain fart, I stand corrected, if you're exporting to the same format as the render files, as far as anyone can tell.

But I still have yet to notice any drastic speed differences between various codec exports. That said, I notice exports, in our studio, with un-rendered timelines, are actually faster than timelines that are rendered. Last edit: by BenB. How to resolve AdBlock issue? Refresh this page. Latest Forum Posts My Author nobbystylus FCP Trial vs. Full version crashes Author enno Which drone video settings should I choose for my Mac?