Final Cut Pro HD

[Toetagger]

So we got final cut pro hd and we have been running it on a mac book but it is taking a long time to export and render. Anywhere from 3 hours to 8 hours for a few slides a 5 minute countdown a 60 sec countdown and a video. I was curious if it is just because we are running it on a macbook or if it is just because it is HD or just that is how long it normally takes to export a few videos. I don't remember it taking so long when we did it on MacPro's but that was also final cut express. Any help would be excellent .

[cmchamp]

1: You're on a MacBook that does not have a dedicated pro level graphics card.
2: If you're editing and rendering true HD footage, that takes a lot more horsepower. I know guys that edit HD footage on 8-core MacPro's with external RAIDS for the data through put.
3: Render? If your capture and camera settings are correct in FCP, you shouldn't have to render much of anything. . . well, you're also not on a properly equipped computer.

Can you describe your projects, number of video channels, filters, etc. that you're using?

[bpalermini]

I think it is going to take a long time if you are overlaying a countdown for a lot of the video with the equipment you have. But, when you export the movie what settings are you using? Are you able to export to a .mov using the current settings or are you changing to another format? In my experience exporting using current settings goes pretty fast.

[Toetagger]

Exporting isn't really the problem I misspoke on that it is the rendering. We get service videos off sermonspice and other websites and put them on the make and place it/them after the slides that we show for that week. We burn the dvd through iDvd So we have a menu to go off of. So we normally have a 5 minute countdown pre service on one chapter, then a 60 countdown slides and a video on another chapter. For the second countdown slides and video it is taking hours to render. I am really thinking it is because we are doing it on a under powered mac for the job but was just making sure it was because of that and we were not doing anything wrong. And yes we do export using an .mov file.