• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Self-Contained Movie

  Posted by Gempic on July 26, 2006 at 12:36 am

  Hello,

  When exporting from FCP when Editing in HDV format what is the best option to avoid losing quality,Quicktime conversion?

  Also what exactly does Make movie self-contained mean?

  Cheers

  David Roth weiss replied 19 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  David Roth weiss

  July 26, 2006 at 1:40 am

  In all cases exporting as a quicktime movie using Curent Settings exports the native file format that your editing on the timeline. This preserves exactly what you started with, there is nothing better than that unless you have a specific reason for bumping to another format. A self contained movie is a file that can play on other machines, while a reference movie has to reference the files on your computer, so if you take it off your computer, or delete the files in your project, you’re sunk.

  DRW

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