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What's with the orange render bars?

Bill Kinkle
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Dec 29, 2006, 8:24 PM

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Never seen this before, but for some reason on my latest edit I have been getting orange render bars at the top of the timeline. If I playback the video without rendering it is very choppy and poor resolution. The only way to render it is to choose the render all option. If I highlight the selection and choose render selection it does nothing to the orange bars. Very painful because everytime I make a small change I have to re-render. Using a Quad G5 with 4.5 gigs of RAM. Here is a screen shot.

carnicelli
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Dec 29, 2006, 9:16 PM

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Make sure your sequence settings match your footage.

Bill Carnicelli
Carnicelli Media Productions Inc

Bill Kinkle
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Dec 30, 2006, 10:59 PM

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They do. I turned off unlimited RT and that fixed the issue. Now I just have to render as usual. I just can;t figure out why I spend so much time rendering my footage. Seems with every newer edition of FCP I have less RT capability. Probably just me though.

carnicelli
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Dec 31, 2006, 11:00 AM

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Re: [Bill Kinkle] What's with the orange render bars? [In reply to]	Can't Post

The way I understand it is that the real time effects are just for previewing and tweaking and that you should always render everything for a final project. I'm using a Dual 2.5 G5 and get decent real time effects. I imagine on the next generation of MacPros that it will be impressive.

Bill Carnicelli
Carnicelli Media Productions Inc