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Exporting a 13 minute HD movie as a 1920X1080 Quicktime file in FInal Cut PRo, but it error out becuase the file is too big
I am having some problems with exporting a 13 minute HD file from my FInal CUt Pro 7 sequence into a HD 1920 X 1080 HD file. The file was burning for about an hour and a half, but it errored out becuase “the file size is too big”
My footage was shot HD 24p on a CANON 55D. I exported a 5 minute file with this same footage and it burned out fine. IS the file size really too big to make the full 13 minute movie?
Please let me know, I’m trying to have this done before midnight.
THANK YOU to anyone who can help.
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9 Replies
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You want a self-contained Movie or a DVD?
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
I want an self contained HD movie that I can post onto YOUTUBE. Any Ideas?
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Not gonna happen. You are going to need to make a h.264.
Export a Self contained QT Movie from FCP and drop that into Compressor. Choose a h.264 setting and choose 5000k data rate.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
Outta Hard-Drive space?
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Hey Steve Eisen, I just went to Export>Quicktime Movie in order to export a self contained quicktime movie of my 13 minute HD file, but the burn ended after 7% with a FILE ERROR : ILLEGAL NAME message. Any thoughts on what went wrong? I really need to export this out to HD.
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What are your doing when you say BURN???? Are you just exporting?
File Export (CMD E)
Give it a name – go.Should take 2 minutes tops.
Take the exported file and drop it into your compression program to create your deliverables.
Chris Tompkins
Video Atlanta LLC -
Sorry i said burn, I am actually EXPORTING the file.
I just tried File Export (CMD E) and I received the same error. The file reaches about 5% and I get an error message saying FILE ERROR : ILLEGAL NAME. I am naming the file TAPEMEREEL1FINALMOVIE(forcompression).mov.
Is my file name too long? Shoudl I not have characters in my file name? any thoughts?
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[CHristopher Eric Outridge] “Shoudl I not have characters in my file name?”
Definitely take out the parentheses. Those are known as “illegal characters” in the business. Look up the term in the FCP Manual sometime.
If that doesn’t work then you have another issue.
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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excellent, it worked. the parenthesis were doing me in. thanks everyone for your help on this.
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