Yellow Render Line Premiere Pro

[Emmalulu]

Hi all,

I've selected all the clips in my timeline and rendered by going to "sequence > Render Selection" ~ there is still a yellow line above my film?? and I am preparing to export..

Any ideas?

Thanks!!!

[excited_Genie16B8 · Accepted solution]

Render Selection only works on red lined clips.  If you set In and Out points and use Render In to Out, it will render everything.

[defaultnip2ucjq1g1f]

this is totally wrong. Mine stay yellow reguardless if i chnage it to memory or metal. It turns green then after rendering it goes back to yellow. I literally cant view my footage. For reference im on an M1 mac mini 16gig ram trying to render rapid shuttering photos. About 30% of my TL is yellow and basically unwatchable 

[R Neil Haugen]

A yellow timeline bar indicates that PrPro has something applied, such as an effect or difficult media, that might cause playback issues. It shouldn't mean that you cannot get playback. I often have large stretches with yellow bars that play perfectly without rendering.

If it goes back to yellow after rendering, then usually either the rendered files are actually unavailable or of a poor choice.

I've seen a couple posts where the app permissions were an issue ... PrPro would try to write the rendered file but couldn't access it even if successful. Odd, but they have happened.

Another thing is to check the sequence settings to see the preview format chosen. You might do better by changing that option.

Neil

[General81]

A yellow timeline bar indicates that PrPro has something applied, such as an effect or difficult media, that might cause playback issues. It shouldn't mean that you cannot get playback. I often have large stretches with yellow bars that play perfectly without rendering.

And when they don't play perfectly, even on 1/4 playback resolution? What then?

If it goes back to yellow after rendering, then usually either the rendered files are actually unavailable or of a poor choice.

What does "of a poor choice" mean?

Another thing is to check the sequence settings to see the preview format chosen. You might do better by changing that option.

Changing it to what?

Sorry, going to need some clarity and specifics here.

[Michael Grenadier]

When you piggyback on a pre-existing thread here, it's important that you provide us relevant background info (which even the OP didn't provide)...  Please tell us your system specs: OS version, Premiere version, amount of RAM, Hardware specs including graphics card and your source properties and sequence settings.    We need to see if there are going to be issues caused by source clips or a preview format which are too complex to play back smoothly on your system....  2 obvious things to try, change the project settings: general: renderer to software and go into your sequence settings and change the preview format to an all iframe format like prores proxy...  Do some googling about all iframe vs mpeg formats for some insight into this.  You also might consider a proxy workflow.  The proxy workflow in Premiere is not particularly intuitive (although they keep improving it) but it allows you to create lower resolution files that Premiere will access to ease playback while editing and then reverts to the camera original when exporting (there's a setting in the export dialog which allows you to use preview or proxy files for your export so make sure this is set as desired).  If any of this isn't clear, post back.

[General81]

Setting in and out points and using Render In to Out does not render everything. It will still only render red lined clips.

[R Neil Haugen]

The yellow line ... or the red line ... above the clips is only an approximate warning. It means you may have dropped frames or stuttered playback, not that you will. Most of my sequences are just yellow all the time. With red bits. And rarely do I have a problem, so I just ignore it and work away until I get dropped frames.

As to exporting ... unless you have set your preview codec to the same format/codec/bitrate/frame-size/rate of your export, it will of course create totally new media anyway.

Neil

[Emmalulu]

Thank you! So if I understand correctly, it is not necessary to render before exporting? The program will do this automatically upon export?

Thanks!

[excited_Genie16B8]

Correct.  Render is not required to export.