I'm editing a video right now and every single time I move a clip somewhere I have to re-render it. Because of this I'm spending more time rendering than I am editing which is driving me crazy. Anyone know if I can change the settings or something to prevent this from happening?
Are you talking about RAM preview? If it's anything like After Effects, you can lower the preview quality and make it skip frames, which increases RAM preview render a lot. If you have a multi-core processor, make sure you enable all the cores in the preferences too
If you edit in .h264 (though this should be true of any other quicktime codec) your rendering will literally be done in seconds. It used to be a pain having to wait an hour for a video to finish exporting when all I did was slap on an audio track in Premiere Pro. But FCP is native to mac, as is the MP4 video system, so a 1.5GB video takes about 5 seconds to finish on a computer with 8GB of RAM.
Huh, well how can I check about .h264? Cause it's not taking seconds, it's taking minutes. And having to wait 1-3 minutes every single time make one cut or adjustment is just ridiculous. I remember when I was in high school editing in FCP all I had to do was render it once and I was good. I can't even "hide" a layer because it says "render files will be lost"..