Editing Flip Video in Final Cut Pro

In the 4 p.m. class, I neglected to mention one problem when importing Flip Video into Final Cut Pro.

The problem is that when you bring your clip into the timeline, it will sometimes show up as "unrendered." This means that it will not play properly in the canvas. You'll most likely hear an annoying beep, or you will only see the word "unrendered" on the screen.

You will also know that the clip is unrendered because a red line will appear across the top of the timeline where the clip is located.

There are ways to preview the clip without rendering it, but really the answer for us is that you need to render the clip. To render the clip, go to the SEQUENCE pull-down menu and look for RENDER, when you hit that, you will find different possibilities. Just look for the one that will render the selection needed, and you can render just the audio, just the audio or both.