| QT export settings
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 | QT export settings
by peter rooney on Oct 14, 2002 at 12:50:09 pm |
Hi folks, according to DVDSP manual, I can export my material as QT movies then use my preferred software, Cleaner, for MPEG conversion, but the manual omits to say what QT settings I should use when exporting my FCP project as QT movie. At the moment I'm attempting to export as QT with NONE compression settings, before importing into Cleaner, and FCP gets part of the way through and then reports a 'general error' and fails to export. The destination drive has buckets of room.
So questions are. What QT export settings should I use and what's the deal with FCP reporting a 'general error' and failing to export as QT movie.
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by TravisMays on Oct 14, 2002 at 1:11:42 pm |
Check to see if you can export a reference file. That's how the Media 100 does it, and both programs use quicktime as media files so I don't see why final cut wouldn't do the same. It may call it something different though.
The reference file is just away of refering back to all your final cut media instead of creating an entirely new file. It's lightning quick too, as opposed to waiting for hours for your program to render out.
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• | | | | | Re: QT export settings
by peter rooney on Oct 14, 2002 at 1:49:48 pm |
Hi there, yes, usually QT offers you the option to make 'movie self-contained' or not as you suggested but that doesn't seem to be an option or I'm maybe missing it, but really FCP shouldn't fail to export a QT movie with 'none' compression. The destination disc is 80gb, more than enough and formatted as HFS+ as well which allows you to create files bigger than 2gb so I don't know what the deal is.
Peter
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by Noah Kadner on Oct 14, 2002 at 4:36:01 pm |
Normally you would use the DV settings- unless you have an uncompressed system. That would be DV NTSC Best 29.97 48Khz 16 bit audio. You can also export an FCP reference movie- but be sure to make it self-contained so it will import into Cleaner. P.S. Cleaner is all but unusably slow for MPEG-2 encodes as you may soon discover.
Noah
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by Peter Rooney on Oct 14, 2002 at 5:03:46 pm |
Thank you Noah, exactly what I'd hoped for, clear advice.
Peter
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by TravisMays on Oct 14, 2002 at 5:42:21 pm |
Another thing brought to my attention today that I had forgotten about: the Mac OS (not sure about OS X, but all others) has a limitation of only being able to create files 2 gigs in size. If this continues happening after Noah's fix, check the file size and see if that might be what's happening.
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• | | | | | Re: QT export settings
by Noah Kadner on Oct 14, 2002 at 11:03:44 pm |
2gb file size has not been an issue for FCP since OS 9.
Noah
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