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Quicktime reference movie
Hi,
trying to make a QT reference movie and can’t, or FCP won’t let me! Mark in and out on sequence>Export>Quicktime Movie>Current Settings>uncheck ‘make movie self contained’>go.
FCP still exports a self contained movie, am I missing something? -
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Sorry, sorry, should have said, I always forget that bit.
Uncompressed 10 bit AJA Kona3
Source: 625 DigiBeta
FCP 5.1.2
Quad G5
QT 7 -
How do you know its “self-contained”?
To be certain I get exactly what I want, I always make a duplicate of my timeline and, on the dupe, remove all material but the section I want to export.
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The size of the file would indicate how much data has been exported wouldn’t it? A reference movie will only contain a couple of megs whereas a self contained movie would be much bigger, right?
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Hi
Reference movies contain the full audio, as well as the video pointer data, so they will come out at around 600MB/hour minimum. -
O.K. Just done another quick test and for 10 seconds of bars and tone an exported ‘self-contained’ movie is 274.4 MB! It’s exactly the same size as the same movie exported, as asked to be, self contained. So, what goes on there then?
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No effects, no mixed codecs.
Bars and tone from generator to uncompressed 10bit sequence, exported to Quicktime using current settings. -
I would guess the same applies to a generator like bars and tone. Like the name generator suggests, FCP is making that asset all on its lonesome, there is no QT based asset to your reference movie (I prefer the old FCP term too) to refer to. Try with a piece of real footage that has been captured to your machine and let’s see what happens there.
Zak
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Hi Zak,
I originally found out this weird one from a piece of footage that had been captured into FCP, well it was two clips onto a timeline, roughly 27 minutes in total, exported to Quicktime reference and the file was huge, the same size in fact, as the self-contained movie.
I dunno with this one…
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