• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  What causes ‘-AV’ added to the flie name?

  Posted by Steve Sy on June 13, 2007 at 11:00 pm

  What causes ‘-AV’ added to the file name? This usually occurs on exported QT files.

  i.e. NAME-AV.mov

  Thanks!

  Russell Lasson replied 19 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Russell Lasson

  June 14, 2007 at 1:24 pm

  Most of the time the -AV is caused by some sort of corruption in a file being written. I’ve only seen this caused by using Capture Now when digitizing video. Often when FCP gets to the end of a tape, it will close the file and try to start a new one. This new file usually has a -AV extension and has no video in it, though sometimes I have seen usable video files with the -AV in the name. In those cases, I just delete the -AV from the name and keep working.

  You’re might be working with source footage that has the -AV in the name and that’s why it is showing up when you export it.

  -Russ

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