Re: Apple article on Optimizing Media

[Geert van den Berg] "That's what I thought, but it's not true. FCPX still has smart rendering. It's one of the reasons I am still considering FCPX, but Premiere seems to do it with MXF files now too."

I don't render in FCPX unless I absolutely have to, so if there's mixed codecs, or effects that will need rendering, upon export, everything gets converted to whatever that output codec is.

I work differently than I do in FCP7, as it works differently. There's no reference files in FCP7, so everything is recompressed on output. It might have some semblance of smart rendering, but it certainly is much different than Fcp7.

Smart rendering is a Quicktime API spec, and FCPX seems to be using AVFoundation as much as possible.

Jeremy