• Apple Final Cut Pro

  Exporting multiple projects at low resolution?

  Posted by Greg Ball on January 29, 2019 at 1:53 pm

  I’m working on a project that involves translating and dubbing 84 short videos (up to 4 minutes each). I need to add timecode to each video then send them as low resolution files to my translators.

  How do you output 84 individual projects as a batch, and as low resolution? Do I just keep them as 1280 X720 and export as .h264? Or can I also reduce the frame size. The only thing that’s critical is the audio quality, not the video quality.

  Again

  1. How do I batch Export
  2. How do I reduce the size/resolution of each file.

  Thanks so much!

  Greg Ball, President
  Ball Media Innovations, Inc.
  https://www.ballmediainnovations.com

  Doug Metz replied 7 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Hancock

  January 29, 2019 at 2:48 pm

  Are they all in separate sequences (projects)?

  If they are, you can select all the sequences (projects) in the browser and batch export (File–>Share Projects–>Compression Setting). You’ll want to pick a compression setting that is a low res h264 file. You may need to import one from Compressor.

  If they are all in one sequence and you want to export each one individually, there is no easy way to do this. You can mark In/Out on each one and send to compressor, which will honor your In/Out marks. But you will have to manually mark IN/Out on each video and send each one to compressor individually.

  Another option, if all 84 videos are on one timeline, is to duplicate your timeline, then make a compound clip for each video on your timeline, then batch export all the compound clips from the browser.

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  Michael Hancock
  Editor
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  Doug Metz

  January 29, 2019 at 8:38 pm

  [Greg Ball] ” I need to add timecode to each video then send them as low resolution files to my translators.”

  I do this with source footage for transcription fairly regularly – I set up a Compressor preset that reduces frame size to 320×180, sums audio to mono, reads the file’s timecode, and burns that in. Works great for a Finder folder full of clips, or for a stack of FCPX Projects – I have it set as one of my share destinations. Transcriptions come back sorted by file name with time-stamped paragraphs.

  13063_bitclores16x9mp4.compressorsetting.zip

  Doug Metz

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