Dragging playhead ignores rendered media
by CoryTV
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Nov 15, 2007 at 5:25:49 pm
The 6.0.2 bug below has revealed a behavior/bug to me that I never realized, and If I get to the bottom of it-- it might make my entire FCP experience much more livable--
As FCP interpreted motion templates differently between 6.0.1 and 6.0.2, I noticed that, upon playback, it played the old (rendered with 6.0.1 "correctly") template.. however, when I drag the playhead over the media, it's showing the raw template-- ("wrong" with 6.0.2")
This is the bug I talked about below, but the much MUCH bigger issue is that even though it's rendered (blue bar) when I drag the playhead, it's "realtime rendering" the timeline-- which, on a complex timeline with motion templates is rendering VERY SLOW. The resulting performance when dragging the playhead is abysmal. Most of the time, we have SOME elements of a timeline rendered, and AVID always looks at the render when dragging the playhead.. Making for a much smoother edit on a complex sequence.
However, if FCP insists on treating the playhead frame as "always unrendered" it DESTROYS dragging and seeking performance.. and if it's ignorant of rendered media now, when else is it ignorant of rendered media, when the user experience could be much MUCH better???
Is there an option that fixes this somewhere? Is this SOP? Or is this yet another bug which another (new) bug has allowed me to finally see?
Re: Dragging playhead ignores rendered media by CoryTV on Nov 15, 2007 at 5:50:14 pm
Are you asking if I changed anything in the motion template? If so, the answer is no... I certainly have never "reconnected" the media, if that is what you are asking...
Re: Dragging playhead ignores rendered media by JeremyG on Nov 15, 2007 at 6:05:40 pm
Since you upgraded, perhaps the template is no longer connected properly. Perhaps you should try opening the project in Motion again, resave and see if the behavior changes.
Also, do you have the 'play base layer only' option turned on in your rt drop down? Perhaps this is causing what you are seeing.
