• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  FCP won’t output MPEG 2

  Posted by Joel Maslin on November 8, 2006 at 11:30 am

  Hi……

  When I try to export as a quicktime movie to mpeg2 FCP keeps telling me I need to render my timeline before it can encode anything for me, but my timeline is already rendered. I don’t want to have to keep outputting a straight export and then converting in quicktime so what can I do? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

  Many thanks,

  MM.

  Fred Grossberg replied 19 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tom Wolsky

  November 8, 2006 at 11:57 am

  This is not the current version of FCP, is it? What version is it?

  All the best,

  Tom

  Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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  Izoneguy

  November 8, 2006 at 2:54 pm

  MPEG 2 you mean for DVD?
  I would export the entire timeline first
  as a self-contained .mov
  then use compressor to create the m2v file…..
  If your are trying to create a Transport Stream you
  must first encode to .m2v and then mux that along
  with your audio file using a program like MPEG Streamclip.
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  Fred Grossberg

  November 8, 2006 at 8:40 pm

  I’m curious. If this was an HD sequence, would you have to downconvert it to an uncompressed 525 file which you then would send to Compressor, or is there any way you could get Compressor to produce an HD mpeg-2 program stream that you could then mux into an HD transport stream using MPEG Streamclip or similar?

  Thanks

  Fred

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