Im shooting with an HD100 and i'm I'm new to editing HDV , in FCP do you always have to render HDV clips as soon as they are in the timeline? or have i over looked a setting?.

If you have to render all clips imediately it could get time consuming.

Any ideas?

Andy

You must have a mismatch in codec, frame size, or frame rate if you are seeing the red render bar.

When the source footage settings match the timeline settings, you will have real-time playback.

Just check your sequence settings.

The most likely scenario is that you created a 720P30 sequence but captured 720P24 footage (or vise-versa.)

Tim just the man, I've been through all the settings and set them to HDV25p, i set my capture to HDV as aposed to HDV AIC and all other settings i could find to HDV25p being in pal land. everything was filmed HDV25p and captured in HDV25p and the timeline is HDV25p. I'm stumped. I picked all the apropriate settings available for my region.

I guess im overlooking something

I appreciate the help.

Andy

Andy,

Try this.

Select your sequence and then select "settings" from the sequence menu (or hit COMMAND + 0)

Confirm that your settings are the same as the screen grab below.

here are my settings;

system settings . pulldown 2:3:2:3
sequence pre- HDV720p25
capture pre- HDV
device con- HDV firewire 25fps
video playback- none
audio- default
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summery:
sequence preset- HDV720p25
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capture preset -HDV
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sequence settings:
frame size - 960 x 720 (i tried various settings here, maybe the problem...what should it be?)
pixel aspect ratio- HD 960x720
quicktime video settings- compression- HDVp25

I basically set every setting i could find to 25p HDV, the only thing im not sure about is what pixel aspect ratio i should be using.

hold on ill try that

Tim, you know your stuff.....that did the trick , it was the aspect ratio

a big thank you from Scotland.

you can stick a fork in this thread and call it done!

Cheers Andy.