• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Exporting HD to quicktime

  Posted by John Place on July 9, 2008 at 5:20 pm

  I am using FCS2 shooting with XDCAM EX1.
  Mac Pro 2×3 GHz Quad-Core Intel.

  I am working on a 90sec project. and whenever I try to export the movie as a quicktime (480×270). it says it’s going to take 3 hours. When I used to do this same project in SD (720×480) it only took about 8 min. is there a special way I should be setting up my project to export/render faster??

  Thank You,
  John
  sa***@*******ce.net

  Jeremy Garchow replied 17 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  July 9, 2008 at 6:08 pm

  The EX1 shoots in a very complex manner. It records the image using a Long GOP (group of pictures) format, and working with that format takes a lot of horsepower. Converting it to another codec, and shrinking it, takes a lot of time. No way around that other than with faster processors.

  SD and specifically DV is a much easier codec to work with, thus the export times are much shorter. Even DVCPRO HD is faster…it is that GOP that is the stumbling block.

  Shane

  

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  Jeremy Garchow

  July 9, 2008 at 6:22 pm

  [John Place] “is there a special way I should be setting up my project to export/render faster?? “

  Use Compressor.

  Export a reference movie, then use Compressor to make your 480×270 web movie.

  Jeremy

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