• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  exporting “as” question

  Posted by David Wheeler on July 3, 2006 at 10:47 pm

  So far, in all my projects, i’ve been exporting my FCP movies as Quicktime movie (self-contained, no compression). I noticed that saving and exporting as MPEG-2 takes hours. Am i not choosing the highest level of quality for my projects by saving as Quicktime movie?

  thanks,

  David

  David Wheeler replied 19 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  July 4, 2006 at 12:19 am

  If you save as a Quicktime Movie, Self Contained using sequence settings, you are exporting at the highest quality you can.

  MPEG-2 is HIGHLY compressed and complex, and that is why it takes so long to compress.

  Shane

  Alokut Productions
  http://www.lfhd.net
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  Michiel

  July 4, 2006 at 1:05 pm

  btw a “quicktime movie” can be anything from highly compressed to uncompressed. Quicktime is just the container, the quality depends on the compressor/codec you use to make the quicktime movie.

  mpeg2 is the standard compression format that is used for DVD.
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  David Wheeler

  July 4, 2006 at 11:32 pm

  Thank you Shane and Michiel.

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