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Exporting only a selection? And Quality question….
Hi, is there anyway to export just a section of my timeline? I will either need to export it either to a tape or save it to the hard disk.
Speaking of, what is the highest quality of video you can export? .Mov, .avi, what? Thanks
-William
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This one eluded me for a while too, but it’s funny how easy and intuitie it is. Make sure nothing’s selected in your timeline, move the playhead to where you want to start exporting, and press ‘i’ to set an in point on your timeline. Do the same thing for your out point where you want your timeline to stop playing. If you’re exporting, FCP will automatically export from In to Out. If you’re printing to Video, under the Media section choose Print:In to Out. If you’re Editing to Tape, you will be required to set In and Out points.
In my experience, the best quality that you have have is the quality you started with – you can’t get any better than that, so no need in wasting the HDD space trying. If you shot/captured DV, you don’t have to export to anything better than DV. If you shot on Beta, export to Beta Quality, and on and on. Basically, want to export to the quality or media that matches the best quality footage you’re working with. So if you’ve upconverted all of your DV and you’re editing it in a Beta sequence because you have one clip that’s Beta and you want to preserve that clip’s quality, you output to beta for that one clip, but the quality of all the DV footage you’ve upconverted won’t be any better than if it was on DV. If you’re exporting to HDD, I’d keep everything as .mov for the Mac, and convert it if you plan on delivering to another platform.
Best,
Ben
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Even if you don’t have any BetaSP clips, and you are editing in DV, if you have any title graphics or still pictures you may want to up your sequence to 8-bit uncompressed to gain quality in your titles, graphics and stills. Especially if your final distribution method is DVD. I found a huge quality difference doing this the few times I was working with DV footage. Especially on stills that had movement in them.
David
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