Rendering Transitions in Final Cut Pro 5

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is C.J. South representing expertvillage.com. In this clip I am going to show you how to render your transitions. So now we are back to rendering again. Last time we talked about it we just kind of covered the drop down for choosing your play back settings. Most of the transitions that you will be using like the basic ones, they are pretty good at real time renderings. Some of the more advanced ones like a blur filter, a blur transition, that will be something that requires most rendering. To render a filter, if you don't want to render the clips around it, all you have to do is just select the transition and then you can go up to sequence and then render selection and you can do both or just video, either one. Now if you notice here these check marks, I believe we showed you that earlier, but let me go through it now. What this is do you remember that color code at the top of your time line with the green and the yellow and the orange and the red. That's what this is for. When you do a render like if you hit command R for rendering, this is what it is going to render. Okay, whatever is checked off and you can click it and now it's not checked off any more but I always like to keep them on because if I am going to render it, I figure I'll just render it fully. So again you have the preview and the full and limited and you can just kind of check them off. It depends on what your work flow is really. You also have render all if you just want to render everything in your entire project. For right now we are just going to render selection so I normally don't even go up to sequence. I just hit Apple R, so let's do that right now. Apple R and now it will render. Now that transition is rendered and you just kind of watch it there. But these other ones that are going over now, they are not rendered but real time rendering does a pretty efficient job. So the only time you really need to do a render most transition is when they are yellow, orange or if they are red because green ones you can play no problem."