Apple Final Cut Pro 7 - Manual (Page 1043)

Transferring Effects Between Systems
If you have a project that uses particular FxPlug plug-ins, you need to install those plug-ins
on each machine where you want to open the project. If you open a project on a system
that does not have the necessary FxPlug plug-ins installed, Final Cut Pro warns you that
plug-ins are missing and displays the name of missing effects.
When moving projects from one system to another, be aware that the capabilities of each
computer’s graphics card may be different, limiting which FxPlug plug-ins you can render
at high resolution and high-precision YUV quality. For more information, see
“Real-Time
Playback and Rendering Plug-ins.”
Real-Time Playback and Rendering Plug-ins
Final Cut Pro can process most FXScript and FxPlug plug-ins in real time, but there are a
few exceptions. For a detailed explanation of real-time processing in Final Cut Pro, see
“Using RT Extreme.”
Real-Time Playback and Rendering of FXScript Effects
FXScript plug-ins included with Final Cut Pro are optimized for real-time playback.
Rendering is required only when your computer’s processing power is exceeded.
Third-party plug-ins may require the Unlimited RT mode for playback. For more
information, see
“Using RT Extreme.”
Real-Time Playback and Rendering of FxPlug Effects
Unlike FXScript plug-ins, whose performance improves only with increased RAM and
processing power, many FxPlug plug-ins achieve high performance by processing effects
with your computer’s graphics card. Upgrading your graphics card or switching to a
system with a better graphics card can improve FxPlug plug-in performance.
Using very high-resolution clips or turning on high-precision rendering in your sequence
settings may exceed the capabilities of older graphics cards. In these circumstances,
Final Cut Pro displays one of the following warnings.
• Rendering the effect in high precision requires a graphics card with more capabilities: Your
graphics card does not support high-precision rendering.
• The effect cannot be rendered in a sequence of this size with the current graphics card: Your
graphics card supports high-precision rendering, but the dimensions of the sequence
containing clips with applied FxPlug filters are too large for the graphics card.
• The effect cannot render this media at full resolution: Your graphics card has enough
memory to store the sequence dimensions, but the clip that has the applied FxPlug
filter is too large for the graphics card. In this case, the media is scaled down to a lower
resolution.
1043 Chapter 64 Installing and Managing Video Effects