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exporting to QT
I just upgraded to FCP Studio on my Mac G5. I need to export to QT a 3 hour and 9 minute show to mail to the audio guy for sweetening.
Which setting do I pick to give me small video (I don’t care that it’s bad), and good audio for him to work on?
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12 Replies
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Best to ask them what they are used to receiving…what codec they can work with.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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A decint audio file alone for a 3+ hour video is going to be way to big to email to someone, and that is without any video which is the biggest part. Even to use a FTP your file size is going to be vary big for a 3+ hour video, even at a low quality you are still talking several gigs.
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Rozanne,
Send him a DVD with PCM audio and have him rip the DVD on his end. Other than that, it will be hard to fit anything at 3 hours plus onto a DVD and you’ll have to send him files on a firewire drive.
David
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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I need to give you more information. He must have a Quick Time file. That’s what he works with and sneds me back an aiff file. I mail him the QT on a DVD.
If I were making a DVD in FC Studio DVD I know how to make the video much less than the best without impairing the audio. I just don’t see the same options in the Quick Time export options or the compressor but I know they info must be there.
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[Rozanne] “If I were making a DVD in FC Studio DVD I know how to make the video much less than the best without impairing the audio.”
Just export a QT reference file (not self-contained) from the timeline, thats about as quick as anything there is, then plop that into DVDSP and make certain that the audio is PCM. DVDSP will encode it and burn it for you. Then, the sound guy can rip that to a QT in any format he wishes using one of the preferred apps.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los AngelesPOST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY
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The problem is that he doesn’t have the software to rip out an encoded file out of a DVD and he has no intiention of getting it and I need to work with him on this.
What would be the lowest video file or numbers to choose from the options available in FCP? I cannot go to an encoded DVD it must be a Quick Time file.
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OK…I usually encode my videos as Sorenson 3, at 320×240…or 320×180 if anamorphic. Since I use Sorenson Squeeze to do this, I get better quality AND lower file sizes. FCP and QT will do this, only the file sizes will be a little larger, and a little more artifacty.
BUT…you really have to ask the mixer, “hey, what codec to you want this in? Will Sorenson 3 work?”
And no, you will not be able to e-mail it. That is TOO much to ask. Either FTP upload, or burn to a data CD or DVD and mail or deliver. I typically FTP.
COMMUNICATE WITH THEM.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
Absolutely! I can do that. Thanks!
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I just did something quite similar to this. Just export out from FCP, don’t bother going throuhg compresor. In the settings, make the frame size something like 320×240 as Shane said (or even smaller), and then maybe send audio out as 48khz/16bit AIFF. For the video codec, just make sure it’s not a lossless codec.
Thanks,
Alexander Gao
USC School of Cinematic Arts
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Hi Rozanne,
A very easy formula is with one of the “Web download” prests in Compressor. For example MPG4 40Kbs. This will produce a movie with a very little picture and only 8 frames per second, but this is enough as a refference for your sound-producer.
Just set the in the Audio tab 44.1Khz Stero if you want a better sound. I used this small films for the same purpose that you need. You only need to know if your producer got QT 6 or QT7 to choose the preset.
Off-course a 3 hours film won’t be e-mailable even with such a small size.
Raafel
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