Rendering in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip, I am just going to finish up talking about rendering. Now when you hit red, which now I will go to safe mode, now these are red you can't watch it at all. All you see is unrendered. Okay. So you have green, orange and a red as the different levels of rendering. Now to render these all you do is go up to sequence and you do either render selection which will render whatever is selected in your time line or render all, and this will render everything in your time line and you can specify what exactly you want to render. Let's just do both for rendering both video and audio and there you go, it starts writing the video. What it's doing is processing all that information that we just added to these clips and it is saving it into a file on your hard drive. So that once the rendering is finished, you can then play those clips back at a full speed. Cancel that. Okay, so now a little slither of it in the red here has been rendered. Let me go ahead and render this blur effect. Let's watch it unrendered. Okay that's the blur effect unrendered and now I am going to go ahead and render that and now you can see it turn blue, the bar turn blue which means it is rendered. You can watch it at full speed. So let's see that again. This is unrendered, very choppy and this is rendered; nice and smooth. "