• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  impossible export times

  Posted by Andy Shnikes on April 24, 2008 at 9:29 am

  why is it taking 2 hours for me to export 5 mins of film with no effects?

  sure im compressing it according to ken stones recomendations for youtube, in fcp4
  from 720×480 to 640×480, from 29.97 fps to 30, at high quality, prepared for internet streaming with a compressed header, at mp4 audio better quality, 128khz, 44.1 and stereo,

  heres my computer specs.

  Machine Name: PowerBook G4 15″
  Machine Model: PowerBook3,5
  CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.2)
  Number Of CPUs: 1
  CPU Speed: 1 GHz
  L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
  L3 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB
  Memory: 512 MB
  Bus Speed: 133 MHz
  Boot ROM Version: 4.5.3f2

  update i just realized one of my ram slots must be bad, both ram sticks work, i tested them, but one of the slots are bad,im no longer running 1gb memory, but rather 512mb,

  does this have anything to do with my slow exporting speeds?

  Andy Shnikes replied 18 years ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Walter Biscardi

  April 24, 2008 at 9:38 am

  [andy shnikes] “does this have anything to do with my slow exporting speeds?”

  FCP should have at least 1GB of RAM to run properly so that’s definitely have some affect, not a whole lot really, but some. But you have a very slow system, and a slow version of FCP. That equals slow export times.

  Also, you should not be using FCP to do this compression, you should be using Compressor if it came with that version of FCP.

  FCP 6 and the entire Studio 2 suite is much faster at everything than FCP 4 and of course it goes without saying that the current lineup of computers are much faster at everything.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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  Andy Shnikes

  April 24, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  my copy of compressor is not working, and im to poor to afford new hardware at present, so i suppose im stuck.
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  Richard Harrington

  April 24, 2008 at 2:31 pm

  Those specs are a bit whack….

  Simply Export a QuickTime Movie….

  Then open it in QuickTime Pro and export the standard iPod preset which is fine for You Tube

  Richard M. Harrington, PMP

  Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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  Andy Shnikes

  April 25, 2008 at 2:52 pm

  really? how long of a movie?

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