Q: Rendering VERY slow or stays at 0% before crashing...
I am working in a project with multiple clips - up to 10 layers of video and audio at any one time. I'm using all proxy files. I am using split screen effects on most of it and other effects also. Lots of compound clips and I am also cartooning the whole thing by putting the effect on one big compound clip. The whole video is 3minutes long. I've managed to cartoon the whole thing (after hours of waiting and multiple freezing on 28%) but there is still more rendering to do within the large compound clip that I have cartoonise (for some reason nothing within the large compound clip would render unless I click inside the compound clip - is this normal?). So anyway the rendering left to do seems to stay on 0% forever without budging and then eventually the dreaded beachball comes up and it crashes. It's driving me mad. Frankly the whole rendering thing is taking hours and it just seems messed up - again, is this normal?
I'm using latest iMac 3.4Ghz. Core i7 16GB Ram. All event and project files are on an external My Book Firewire 800. I am running no other programs during rendering.
I tried looking in library-preferences to delete them and restart but I couldn't find them! I haven't tried reinstalling. I logged in froma different user as I read you can test if it works better...but doesn't that mean I have reinstall Final Cut again..? Might as well just do a reinstall no?
Any solutions to these problems? I just started using this program...any other recormmendations of video editing software? I won't be able to stand this much longer...
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 2011 16GB RAM 3.4Ghz
Posted on Sep 10, 2012 4:51 PM