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halmrasta
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February 17, 2017
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Speedgrade is not rendering

  • February 17, 2017
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Hello,

I am new to Speedgrade. After learning about grading I am now ready to render the project. For some reason it is not rendering.

I press render, it says: Rendering: 0% 23020 (frames total). After a few seconds it says "done", but it is still on 0%, and the file is not in the designated location.

(I have tried both Online Quality and Offline Quality, both giving me the same result).

Hope for a positive answer and solution! Best Kristine.

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    Correct answer R Neil Haugen

    When I've had this, it's normally been because there was some option I hadn't set correctly ... or had just skipped ... and after going through re-setting the export dialog box for that codec I finally got it to "go".

    Neil

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    Neil Watcyn-Palmer
    Participant
    March 8, 2017

    I have the choice of Speedgrade and Da Vinci Resolve. When it cones to 4K rendering they both suck.

    With Sg thought the experience is beyond awful.

    I get all the symptoms of 0% to done with no file. in Pro res

    I get a jerky file in mpeg4

    I get a hung iMac in other formats.

    Why I cannot just send it to media encoder.

    The SG team seem to be a law unto themselves. Nothing in it is standard Adobe look feel intuitive

    It  needs a thorough rethink and then proper testing before sending it out to a user community paying good money for it.

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    March 8, 2017

    SpeedGrade was originally Iridas, designed for pro colorist work. The user interface was created years ago, and for an expected user of some experience. When Adobe bought it and renamed it SpeedGrade, they made almost no changes in the UI, but did as of CC2014 include the "Direct Link" process where a PrPro project file opened directly in SpeedGrade without the need for exporting EDL's and conforming media to the EDL in the grading app.

    For what it could do, once you learned the interface, it was actually very fast to work with. But if you didn't get some help to start out with, it was certainly nearly an opaque process, especially the exporting!

    The Direct Link process meant of course one didn't ever export from Sg.

    However, the dropping of the Direct Link ... and putting Sg on "hiatus" status, where it's not getting developed at the current time, has created problems for those still wanting to use the program.

    For me, I'm on a PC, and find that using Patrick Zadrobilek's Ntown site app ... PrPro-BCC I think it's called ... to auto-mod a PrPro project file so I can grade in Sg in the 'Direct Link' mode, then run the project file back through that little app to up-convert the file back for PrPro 2017 is a heck of a lot faster & easier than sending out an XML and conforming media in Resolve,. then going back through the process to finish in PrPro.

    Resolve is a vastly wider and deeper set of tools, of course. But also takes a lot more knowledge to get running well in it.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil HaugenCorrect answer
    Legend
    February 17, 2017

    When I've had this, it's normally been because there was some option I hadn't set correctly ... or had just skipped ... and after going through re-setting the export dialog box for that codec I finally got it to "go".

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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    halmrastaAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 20, 2017

    Thank you Neil, yes, this was also the case. But I am still wondering why. This is what I did:

    - I set the codec to: "Apple Pro Res 4444 25 fps" - this didn’t work.

    - When I manually set the codec it worked.

    Have any idea why the Apple Pro Res doesn’t work?

    Best

    Kristine

    R Neil Haugen
    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    February 20, 2017

    What settings were different between the Apple ProRes 25fps initial setting, and your manual choices? I know on my own computer, there's a few of the options that as they load, don't result in an export with the video included ... but I can modify a different 'flavor' of that to what seem the same settings, and it works.

    So I've found I needed to futz with settings to get what worked.

    As to why? No clue. I even asked one of the two initial creators of Iridas, which became SpeedGrade when purchased by Adobe ... and he just shook his head. If Patrick Palmer can't tell me, I'm wondering if anyone can.

    Neil

    Everyone's mileage always varies ...
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