• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Export Problem (Quicktime Conversion)

  Posted by Rory Keenan on September 20, 2013 at 7:44 pm

  All of a sudden I can no longer export my sequence through “Quicktime conversion”.
  Has anyone had this problem??

  Been working on a film off & on for a year.
  We’ve been doing exports of rough-cuts and various scenes to show to producers through “Export/Quicktime-Conversion”
  That way we get a quicktime that will play independently of Final Cut on anyone’s computer.

  Then, about a week ago we could no longer export using “Quicktime-Conversion”.

  The sequence plays fine in the canvas window.
  I select the sequence (or put in&outs around the portion of sequence) I want.
  I select “File/Export/Using Quicktime Conversion”. At this point the canvas window turns solid red and a message in the window says “Display Unavailable. Close window and reopen to restore”. I close & reopen the window and the same thing happens.
  If I proceed with the export, when I click “Save” I get a window that says “The requested export operation cannot be performed”

  Any Ideas??

  Sequence Settings:
  1920×1080 HDTV 1080i 16:9
  23.98fps
  Apple ProRes 422

  Footage is mixed resolution:
  Some 1920×1080 29.97fps
  Some 960×720 23.98fps

  If choose “Export/Quicktime Movie” (i.e. a FinalCut Quicktime) it works fine.
  If I select “Send To/Compressor” it works fine.

  However we need to get the “Quicktime-Conversion” working, because the director sometime likes to export scenes on his own and doesn’t know compressor well.

  Rory Keenan replied 12 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  September 20, 2013 at 8:22 pm

  Delete your preferences. digitalrebellion.com has a free app that does this. Preference manager. One click.

  Shane
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  Rory Keenan

  September 23, 2013 at 11:42 pm

  Thanks Shane
  I’m going to try this tomorrow when I’m at the office.

  By “Delete your preferences” do you mean FinalCut user preferences….or other preferences?

  I’ll try the download, but I’m curious if it’s possible to do it manually as well??
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  Rory Keenan

  September 26, 2013 at 10:23 pm

  I downloaded the “Preference Manager” application and used it. It’s a cool app…..unfortunetly it didn’t solve this issue.

  After deleting the preferences it still won’t export a “QuickTime Conversion”

  Any other ideas?

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