Rendering projects

When you're finished editing your project — or when you want to see it in its final form — rendering converts your project to another format and creates a single file on your hard drive.

When you render your project, the project file is not affected (overwritten, deleted, or altered) during the rendering process. You may return to the original project to make edits or adjustments and render it again.

  1. Click the Project button in the main toolbar.

  2. Choose Render from the menu. The Render Project dialog is displayed.

  3. Type a name in the Name box to identify your rendered file.

  4. In the Destination folder box, type the path to the folder where you want to save the rendered file, or click Browse to choose a folder.

  5. Choose a setting from the Format menu to indicate whether you want to create an AVC/AAC (*.mp4), DNxHD, Apple ProRes (macOS only), SStP, XAVC Intra, XAVC Long, XAVC S, or XDCAM clip.

    If you want to render an audio-only file, choose MP3 Audio, Sony W64 or WAV.

    If you want to render an image sequence, choose DPX or OpenEXR.

  6. Choose a setting from the Render preset drop-down list to choose the settings that will be used for the new file.

    Choose the Best match preset if you want Catalyst Edit to choose the most appropriate preset for your project timeline. For more information, see "Using the Timeline Inspector."

  7. If you're rendering to a format that supports multichannel audio, use the controls in the Audio channels box to map your project's audio channels to the channels in the rendered file.

    The left column represents the audio channels in the destination file. The drop-down lists in the right column represent the number of audio channels that have been configured for your project. For more information, see "Working with multichannel audio."

    For each destination channel, choose an output from the drop-down list, or choose Unused to render silence in that channel.

  8. Select the Render loop region only check box if you want to save only the portion of the project that is contained within the Mark In/Mark Out region. For more information, see "Marking in and out points for playback."

    Loop Playback does not need to be selected for this option to work.

  9. Click OK.

    Progress is displayed in the activity pane at the top of the Catalyst Edit window.