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Quicktime conversion crashing FCP
Hi,
I have a six minute edit in a pro res time line in FCP7 which I am trying to export using quicktime conversion. However fcp keeps crashing and I don’t know why. The export settings I am using are H.264
1280 X 720, frame rate: current, Key frames automatic, Data rate automatic. Sound settings AAC,
KHZ 32.00 As far as I can recollect these settings are the same as my last export which was fine.
There are half a dozen stills in the timeline at one point. I don’t know if the size or format of these would make a difference or whether some plugins like twixtor or lock&load slowmo would have an effect so I also tried making a self contained quicktime file of the whole thing and tried to export from that in a new timeline and still it crashed. I have tried about six times now and it always seems to happen after about four or five minutes in.
Any thoughts would be appreciated as I have checked and rechecked everything and I don’t know what could be changed to make a difference.Many Thanks
BRIANbrian paterson
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4 Replies
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I don’t know why you’re having this problem Brian, but the solution is to export a self contained QT using Export>>QT Movie, then use that file as your master to make further encodes, preferably from Compressor, as QT Conversion typically proves to make encodes of inferior quality.
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Thanks David,
I guess I was sort of half right in my thinking when I made a self contained quicktime movie as my master but still FCP crashes when trying to use that master to output a file using quicktime conversion.
A few months back I developed problems opening compressor and it looks like a complete reinstall of FCP7 to sort it which I haven’t had time to do so making a quicktime file ( to upload to vimeo) is the easiest way right now.
Thanks anyway for replying. I am going to try trashing my preferences next to see if that has any effect.
Finally.. am I right in thinking that if I use a self contained quicktime file as my master it would eliminate any differences between still images in the original timeline whether they are jpg or tiff or 300 dpi or 72 dpi. etc.Regards
BRIAN.brian paterson
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Create selfcontained quicktime,
Use compressor for creating a H264,Quicktime conversion sucks. 🙂
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I’ve had this problem many times, before, and the culprit has always been an m2v file located in the FCP sequence. I’d check for corrupted files in your sequence.
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