• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Fastest way to export

  Posted by Himanshu Bhatnagar on August 23, 2010 at 8:24 pm

  Hello,

  I have 2 hour long HD footage on time line; I want to export this as quick time file which can be played on PC and mac both as soon as possible. Since its a rough edit I do not care about the quality. Also, I want .mov to be very small in size. I have tried various compressors but they are taking a lot of time and giving me a huge file size.
  Can somebody suggest me the right compressor.

  I’m using FCP 7.

  Thanks in advance.

  Jason Brown replied 15 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  August 23, 2010 at 8:44 pm

  Two hours at HD…want to make it a SMALL good quality QT? This won’t be done quickly.

  Unless you know the fine art of compression, best to use the presets in Compressor. QT 7 streaming…choose one. Export a small section of your project…like 10 seconds. And try all the options to see what looks best. Then use that. But know that the better it looks, the larger it will be.

  Again, Compression is a fine art.

  Shane

  

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  Pradip Patil

  August 23, 2010 at 8:56 pm

  Why not go for H.264?
  You can easily get a mp4 file using MPEGStreamclip. I do this quite often.

  I use this setting when exporting files for quick preview

  Compressor H.264
  Qualty at 50% to 65%
  Frame Size 640X360
  Better Downscaling Selected

  One more thing, maybe the compressors that you are using have presets with mulipass setting on.Since you are not bothered about quality, you can avoid multipass compression.

  Pradip Patil
  Mumbai,India
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  Jason Brown

  August 23, 2010 at 9:21 pm

  Matrox compress hd…comes with several presets, do a send to compressor…it will transcode faster than real time while letting you continue to work in fcp.

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