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tga & qt ref doubts.
I am an AVID user. I giving my first steps with FCP and I have a couple of doubts.
1) I am working on a hdv 180i and I need to export a tga sequence. Automatically export themselves like interlaced images or I setup anything that I am not capable to find?
2) How I export quicktime reference? Export / quicktime movie and uncheked Make Self Contained?? I have done several proofs cheked and uncheked and I always obtain files with the same size ( many Mbs )
Thanks and sorry for my bad English.
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4 Replies
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Oscar,
once you select “movie to image sequence” for a targa export in quicktime, click the “options” box. This allows you to select your format (targa, png, etc.) and frame rate. I believe that the export takes care of the interlacing, but it’s been a while since I exported an image sequence.
As for reference movies from quicktime, set in and out points (“I” and “O” as shortcuts) around the media you want to reference. Hit cmnd-c to copy it, open a new QT window and paste the copied selection into the new window. Then when you hit save, you’ll be able to select “reference movie.”
Hope that helps.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Thanks Josh !!!!
There is no another way to make a quicktime reference or similar from export final cut window??Thanks again.
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Oscar,
I’m not sure that there is a way to export an independent reference file from the Final Cut export options–like there is in QT. Making sub-clips (in and out points around media, then cmnd-u) in the FCP viewer creates a reference file for use in editing, and you can export these sub-clips without retaining the full media. If you’re looking to create reference files to hand to someone else to edit from Final Cut, I suggest that you scrub through your media and create sub-clips (and you can control the description/naming at that point). Once you’ve made your selections, you can copy this file and send to your editor to use as a reference of your selections. If this won’t work for you, you could export using “quicktime conversion” option to make a low-res editing file. This will create much smaller files that you can use as a place marker for editing, but might create problems when reconnecting the full-res media later, as these clips (even at low-res) will act independently of the original source and not reference back to the full-res version. It sort of depends on what you’re trying to do in the long run. If you’re simply scrubbing through the media to make rough selection for editing purposes, using QT is probably the best option.
Let me know how it goes.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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First of all thank you very much Josh for your attention.
Really, the best option is make reference clips using QuickTime. I need export several clips to AE and re-import in FCP whitout losing quality and keeping order field of my hdv project.Using Quicktime is a fast way and works.
Thanks Josh!
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