• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  create multiple exports from a single FCP timeline

  Posted by Patrick Burns on August 4, 2012 at 12:46 am

  I have a large project of 3000 video files in 40 timelines. Each timeline consists of 75 short 3 to 4 second cuts that I would like to export as individual .mov’s and .aiff’s. I want to know if there is a plug-in or programming trick to set in and out points or markers for each clip and then automatically export all at one time. Otherwise I will have to set each clips In and Out and then go through the export process individually for each clip (cut).

  Pat Burns

  Nick Meyers replied 13 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jessica Mantheiy

  August 4, 2012 at 3:03 am

  I don’t think there is. You would have to set the in-and-out points for everything. The quickest export would then be to send all of your timelines to Compressor and do a Batch export from there.

  Jessica Muth
  jmuth01@gmail.com
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  Steve Eisen

  August 4, 2012 at 3:31 am

  The only way is to make sequences for each of your videos and do a batch export. Either way, it’s a lot of manual labor.

  Steve Eisen
  Eisen Video Productions
  Vice President
  Chicago Creative Pro Users Group
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  Nick Meyers

  August 5, 2012 at 2:04 am

  simple.

  copy all in the timeline
  make a new bin,
  paste (dont drag & drop: FCP may create new master clips which is not what you want)

  now just batch export the bin.
  in the batch export settings remember to check “use in to out”

  the resulting files will have the CLIP TC, not the Sequnce TC,
  is that an issue?

  OK< idealise you might have more complex sections, not just simple liked clips.

  so, do this:
  due your sequence in the browser,
  put it into a new bin
  in the new sequence, go thou marking in/outs around your sets,
  option a to select in-to-out
  option c to nest

  do this 75 times and you have each seg as a nested sequence ready for batch export.

  finally, a third method:
  export your sequence, export as non-self contained if you are in a hurry (i always put (REF in the export name if i do this)

  bring it back into FCP, lay it up in your timeline on top of the edited clips,
  go through and put a marker where you want each new seg to start
  copy the clip into a new bin,
  toggle the triangle to reveal markers,
  select all markers Apple U to make subclips.

  if you have undesired spaced between the segs, add a marker at the head of the seg, and then extendd it to the end.

  good things about the nest method is you get to re-name the nest to the seg name as you go.

  nick

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