“Tell Me What’s On Your Mind”—Render Status Bar
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 Filed in: Weekly Tip
Sure your Timeline
had lots of red segments, but why? Have you been
neglecting your machine? Did your tower get jealous
when you took the laptop home with you? It’s hard
to really know why an effect needs to render and
what is blocking real-time performance.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.
Or at least it used to be hard. Final Cut Pro 6 is
a lot more willing to share. As long as you have
Tooltips active (see your User Preferences) you can
better tell what’s going on. Just roll your cursor
over a red segment and hover. Render status bars
now provide detailed Tooltips as to why a segment
with red render status bars can’t play back in
real-
time.
Now, if we could just use the same trick to figure
out why our kids and spouses get mad sometimes.
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.