Re: FCP 6.0.5 and Compressor

Thanks for these tips.

I have exported a reference quick time file and used compressor that way.

But your comments have me wondering about a couple of things;

my understanding was that you could in fact get a better encode by submitting the FCP sequence directly to Compressor because it would automatically put markers at transitions and other spots it recognized.

Is that not worth the effort?

Also may of my edits are an hour or more so when I create a QT reference movie - FCP is tied up for a fairly long period of time anyway and then I still need to wait for Compressor to to its job. Sometimes delivering these quickly makes it more efficient to export the timeline instead.

Any thoughts on what is the cleanest encode vs what is most efficient workflow?

thanks again