Short clips become long clips when rendering
by John Smith
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Oct 29, 2008 at 11:18:13 am
Hey
I know there are issues when sending your project to Color.
A clip of 2 seconds can become a clip of 1hour when you add it to render queue.
Now i have cleaned my project into 1 line and used mediamanagement to cut the clips so I dont have any reference to the full tape clips left.
Still when I render there is one clip that is very long. Ive looked into the mediamanaged project and all my clips are short like they should be (5secs max). But when I look at the clip that renders long in Color, I see that its not a short clip in FinalCut afterall, still I dont see the masterclip in the bin!
So it loads it from my harddrive. This makes it very difficult to foresee problems. When Finalcut loads up full clips but doesnt put them in the bin, just in timeline. What I'm I doing wrong? If someone can still follow what I'm trying to say. :)
And what to do with a project I have sended to color and 1 or 2clips are to long. How can I fix this without having to start over again? And please dont say saving every Prim/Secondary for every clip. That isnt just a way to work. I wonder how they do this stuff with full features films!
Re: Short clips become long clips when rendering by Joseph Owens on Oct 29, 2008 at 2:36:40 pm
This again.
>What I'm I doing wrong? If someone can still follow what I'm trying to say. :)
Not really.
>That isnt just a way to work. I wonder how they do this stuff with full features films!
COLOR is considered too low-end to do either A- or B-grade feature-length motion pictures. The front-line applications are Baselight, Lustre, daVinci, nuCoda Scratch (if they can stay in business) and a few others. See my "Value for Investment" thread.
At this point I don't really understand the problem you are trying to describe. Is it a very long render? Usually this is due to a speed remap or smoothcam filter. FCP requires the entire source clip to compute the correct in/out points. It could be several other issues, as well. You are the one who constructed your FCP timeline, probably violating one of the several conditions that will interfere with a COLOR roundtrip.
There are a number of remedies for this, discussed AT LENGTH on this and every other COLOR forum in the space-time continuum. But since I'm not sure if this is the situation, re-typing all this stuff out may be a waste of time and effort. So, try a bit of searching.
Re: Short clips become long clips when rendering by Stuart Ferreyra on Oct 29, 2008 at 3:18:46 pm
In my experience, his problems are mainly by:
- A multiclip seq -even after it has been consolidated- that Color can't handle well.
- Any speed changed clip that has not been treated properly.
Which one is it? Maybe a new issue?
Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia Colorist / Finisher / Consultant
