7 Hours for 4 minutes......

I'm not a Mac user...but I can't believe that's right. If it's HDV native I have seenthe conform time take about 2:1, but that would mean 8 minutes for 4 minutes of content, not 7 hours.

Chicken soup stuff: Is the destination drive really full and/or fragmented? Was the file what you intended when it was done? Maybe try removing different pieces of media and re-rendering...I wonder if one source file might be somehow corrupt?


Sorry, that's all that comes to my mind right out of the gate.

TimK,

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I was trying to do a EXPORT as QT - CURRENT SETTINGS - Self Contained, recompress all frames - right out of a HDV timeline... I quit it, because it was taking soooo long.... tryin gother things now, but man it has been a BIG headache.... still cant get the thing out of the computer onto a DVD.....

Thanks,
Harry.

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That sounds about right to export via FCP to quicktime at current settings. If you want to deliver in quicktime you need to change your settings to make it smaller.... the HDV after the export doesnt look very good anyway.

As far as creating a DVD, the best way that we have found to do it is to export from FCP to uncompressed HD 10 bit then plug the MASSIVE file into Compressor to compress it to a DV file for DVD. Ends up taking a long time, maybe 3 hours for a 5 minute piece (all together) but it looks GREAT!

We have a Kona card, which gives us the codec for the 1080i uncompressed 10 bit export, but I think there is an option for that in FCP as well....

Hope this helps.

Nick Inc - http://www.reelinsyte.com

FCP, Dual 2.7 G5, 4GB RAM, KONA LHE

So Harry, it would be interesting to hear what was done to solve the problem.

Try copying the entire HDV timeline and making a new SD sequence then paste the HDV timeline. Once the SD sequence is functional, export to compressor.