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FCP6 Export to Quicktime Problem
I was wondering if anybody out there could help with an export problem I’m having in FCP 6 running on a MacPro.
In some projects, when I export to Quicktime movie, the resulting movie is not the whole final cut sequence – it just stops at a random point somewhere in the sequence. No error messages appear to warn that the entire sequence has not been output, and it is only when the movie is played back and stops halfway through that I know it hasn’t worked. I have no idea why it stops, but the last time I had a problem I rebooted, started a new project, used different imported movies of the same files and it stopped in exactly the same place. I’ve also had the same trouble with footage captured from tape.
I usually get around the problem by exporting using quicktime conversion rather than export to quicktime, but I’ve being doing some 5:1 Audio sequences and QT Conversion can’t handle 5:1 in the codec I’m exporting in.
Has anybody else had this problem or know why it happens? I’m completely baffled by it so any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Vicky
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4 Replies
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Hi Vicky,
Is it possible that you left and In and/or an Out point in the sequence?
If yes, that would explain it.Jaap
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Hi Jaap
No there were no in or out points in the sequence – I even tried moving the playhead to the end of the sequence on the off chance that would make a difference, but no luck!
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Hmm…
And what happens if you do Export using Compressor (I guess Compressor should also be able to handle your 5:1 codec)? Does that get you around the problem?
Jaap
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Hi Jaap
I managed to export it fine in Compressor which got me around the problem at the time, but it’s just irritating me that the FCP export sometimes doesn’t work correctly. Nine times out of ten it’s fine – it just seems to take a dislike to certain clips (although the clips themselves that have had this problem are all imported/captured in different ways so it’s not like it’s a particular type of media that causes the issue). On one occasion I tried exporting just a small piece of the timeline where the glitch occured and it stopped on the same frame, leading me to believe perhaps it was a bad frame although I had no problem playing back in the timeline. When I removed one of the audio tracks the error disappeared and it exported the whole segment. So now I’m left wondering if it’s an audio glitch rather than a video one, but still can’t see why the export would just stop halfway through with no error messages if FCP had encountered something it couldn’t deal with. As you can see I’m a bit baffled by it (not to mention frustrated!)!
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