Also, playback, when it is stressing the hardware, FCPX will degrade the image quality on purpose to give you decent playback, good enough to edit with. It will do this much more so when set for "Better Playback" then with "Better Quality". But if FCPX would have to degrade it too much for playback, it will make you render things first. So that setting comes into play, also. In FCP7 you technically weren't required to render before exporting. If you were not getting everything exported, there was a problem with the system.
I never rendered before exporting in legacy FCP, but over the years saw bugs that could require rendering first. Optimized Media is only a ProRes full quality version of the original media. It is only necessary if the original media would stress the hardware.
GoPro clips on your laptop will play fine to a point, but add text, color grading, stabilization, fish-eye correction, and you'll need to render for any realistic, useful playback. Last edit: by BenB. Hi Justin, Ben has given an excellent explanation. But I also see you are confusing proxy media and optimized media. So let me try and break this all down for you in simple steps. Optimized media When you create optimized media you create new high-quality files from your original clips.
This means you will work with video that has exactly the same quality as your original footage. If there are optimized media FCP X will always use these for editing and exporting.
Rendering When you add effects, titles, color correction etc Rendering has no influence whatsoever on the quality of your final exported video. It is only used to achieve better playback performance when your computer cannot play back effects in realtime, and to be able see your video in the highest quality while playing it on the timeline. Exporting Exporting is creating a file from your timeline. You can export a a high-quality master file usually ProRes , or any other format you choose.
Wether your timeline has been rendered or not, this has no influence whatsoever on the quality of your exported file. When you create proxy media you create new low-resolution files from your original clips. These new files are in the ProRes Proxy format. Proxy media are often used to achieve smoother playback in the timeline when working with very high-resolution original media or when working with multicam recordings with lots of camera angles.
Proxy media are used only for smooth editing and should never be used for exporting. To work with the proxy media you need to set your Media playback to Proxy in the Viewer. Again, it does not matter if you timeline has been rendered or not.
Rendering does not have any influence at all on the quality of your exported file. Last edit: by ronny courtens. Thanks for the responses. I seem to understand better now. So, is this perhaps to do a "draft" render so you can view the video and see what changes to make, and in the end you will render in the standard way for the final product?
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We need to know your ram summary to tell if RAM is constrained. Although my post says 3. Edit that, p'haps? For example, it takes nearly half as long to render the same video in Premiere Pro than it does in Resolve 15 when applying just Neat Video noise reduction to a clip. On the other hand, the newer Resolve 16 shows improved efficiency, which again indicates that the overall render time greatly depends on what is going on inside the video editing software itself, and on how well it organizes the render process.
Write down the speed measured by the test. Then calculate the number of frames in the clip by multiplying the length of the clip in seconds to the frame rate of the clip.
Compare that efficiency to the results in the table above. How does it compare? Is it roughly similar to the figures in the table? Is your measured efficiency number significantly lower?
There are several ways to go about shortening render times. Some of them are general while others depend on a specific video editing software package.
This will ensure that Neat Video itself achieves the best possible speed for your hardware. Make sure the latest version of the GPU drivers is installed. After making any changes in hardware setup please re-do the optimization described in point 1.
For example, if your source video is 4K, but the output will be a p clip, then it may be a good idea to resize the video before you apply any effects. Neat Video will process p frames about 4 times faster than 4K frames. Check the resolution of the frames sent by the video editing application to Neat Video for processing using the main window of the Neat Video plug-in see the frame size indicator under the viewer.
You may want to try different codecs for that role to find the fastest one. In some video editing applications, such as FCPX for example, you can simply request the application to optimize the source video during import and it will do the transcoding for you automatically. Working with source video clips encoded with a faster codec may significantly improve the efficiency of the render process because it will not waste a lot of time using a slow codec component.
Sometimes it may be necessary to ensure that Neat Video and the video editing application do not compete with each other for the GPU memory. October 05, July 27, 1 Comment.
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