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Exporting to quicktime moive in FCP
I have two long sequences in Final Cut pro 5.1.4 ready to be burned on to a DVD. When I export the first sequence to Qucktime Movie, it creates a FCP movie file titled Sequence 1. That one works fine. At this point my portable drive ran out of space and I’m using a second protable drive with lots of space. When I export to Quicktime movie for the second Sequence FCP creates several files called sequence1a, Sequence 1a-av1, Sequence 1a-av2… These file don’t work in Compressor at all. Why is it making these files and not making just one FCp moive file sequence 1a?
Thanks
Rory -
6 Replies
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ahh, I came across this a really long time ago and don’t exactly remember what it is all about. I believe they are reference files though, which may be why it doesn’t work in DVD authoring program
Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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Probably your second HD is formated as FAT32. The bigger file size admitted is 2GB (I think), this is why is chopping your movie.
Rafael -
So what you recommend I do to get it to export properly?
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reformat your drive to OSX extended
Colin McQuillan
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Yes, reformat as MacOS Extended. Otherwise you will really complicate your life.
rafael -
I would back up anything that you need and is working off of the hard-drive first, then format to Mac OS Extended. Should we all go through the Journaled vs Unjournaled discussion again? Do a quick Cow search to see which one you want. Its a pretty quick and painless process, and then your drive will work flawlessly. It won’t, however, be able to be hooked up to a Windows machine without some help (such as macdrive, https://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/ ) like it can right now. If you don’t have time to format or space to save your files while you do it, you would probably be ok exporting a reference file (as long as all the media is going to stay put for now) or a self-contained quicktime, like you’ve been doing, to somewhere on your system hard-drive.
Let us know if you have any more issues or need some help.
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