Rendering in Final Cut Pro

By John on March 10, 2008 11:04 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Here is a cool trick to avoid having to re-render certain effects within Final Cut Pro.

Each time you render an effect within Final Cut Pro a physical render file is created on one of your hard-drives. Unless you've changed your render-files scratch disk, the default location would be:

Mac HD / Users / Username / Documents / Final Cut Pro Documents / Render Files / Name of Project

You can take the physical rendered file and re-import it back into your timeline or Browser window. This is basically the same concept of exporting a flattened movie and re-importing back into Final Cut Pro.

*One word of warning:

I recommend that you copy the render file to your capture scratch folder before importing it into your timeline or browser window to avoid media management issues.