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Using the FCP 7 “you tube sharing” feature – render time seems long
Well, better late than never, I JUST got FCP 7 loaded yesterday (been on 6 for the past few years) and the Apple server, at least as of yesterday, was still serving up the updaters.
I’m enjoying my “new” edit software, particularly the “share” button to export simple DVD’s and Youtube encodes right from the timeline. The DVD one worked clean and fast, impressive.
But…
The Youtube one is taking over two hours at this point to compress an 8 minute HD piece and upload it. It seems stuck with the progress bar mocking me with “about 3 minutes, 30 seconds left to finish”. But that number is slowly going up over the last hour, now saying it has 4 minutes and some odd seconds left.
This thing’s been encoding/uploading for over two hours now, that seems excessive based on my experience from version 6, where I would export using quicktime conversion into an h.264, then upload that.
Those of you who are more experienced in v. 7, what can you suggest?