rendering orange bars

Just finished my first test project in FCPX...can't believe what heavy weather I made of it but what a joy trimming has become with the magnetic timeline I so hated. Thanks for all your support much appreciated.

By the way with some clips in a project even though I have rendered and re rendered I still have little orange bars indicating this is not the case...a bug perchance?

cheers

James

Thanks I've done all that and still just in a couple of places (two clips actually) there are still orange unrendered bars...and it plays fine so I guess I should not worry about it but it is a little unnerving!!

Just lots of little mini bars...weird actually...quite like to post a photo but can't figure out how...doh!

thanks I have a suspicion that it is caused by mixed formats originated in same camera (Panasonic TM900O) I have used for this test project...some of which did not seem to transcode media in the way that I asked.

i think for the time being I will use streamclip to do all this prior to import so I know for sure what I have.

But you check Create Optimised right? And create proxy?

Nope. Can't see a reason to. My workflow - Cards get copied to 2 separate drives during the shoot. LaCie Rugged and an inexpensive USB drive. THEN, at the suite, the files are copied to a Raid 5 Pegasus. At this point the files are essentially quadrupled backup. Plus the SD/CF cards until they get reused at some point.

Most of my shoots have been multicam dslr shoots so far. 2 or 3 cams. On an i7 imac, with TB pegasus raid, I've had no problem playing back 3 streams of DSLR h264 video. Oh, the occasional dropped frame for sure, especially with unrendered fx or color correction or titles, but I leave the dropped frames warning off, or switch to better performance if I need to. The latter is like working with a pseudo proxy anyway.

Copying the files to the event would just duplicate the files, since my events and projects are on the pegasus. So, I don't do that either. In my tests, ProRes makes for smoother scrubbing at high speeds. Nice, but not really worth quadrupling the space the files take on the drive. I don't need my 200+ gigs of media to suddenly take a terabyte of space.

The only reason I even gave FCP X a chance earlier this year, was because of two things. Automatic multicam sync to audio, and the ability not to transcode h264 to ProRes. In all seriousness, had Adobe PPro CS6 included some sort of automatic PluralEyes function like FCP X, I'd probably be using it. I have CS6, but it just doesn't perform as well on the iMac nor have the function that X does. In many ways CS6 is just a more powerful, yet less empowered, version of FCP 7. Sort of. If that makes sense. But I'm sure I'll start using it for more after effects heavy driven projects in the future.