• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  exporting movie so that it can be shown on big screen

  Posted by Beth Clements on April 8, 2009 at 8:25 pm

  I am very new to all things video-editing, so please be patient with me.

  I imported DVC footage to FCE on my mac and edited a 30sec movie that needs to be projected on a big screen in an auditorium.

  The computer that it will play from does not accept quicktime movies.

  How do I go about exporting a file that will be high quality and pc compatible?

  When I do quicktime conversion exports, they are very small files and they look grainy on my computer screen.

  Any help and direction is very appreciated.

  Mark Suszko replied 17 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Zane Barker

  April 9, 2009 at 3:53 am

  DVCPRO 50 or DVCPRO HD?

  [beth clements] “The computer that it will play from does not accept quicktime movies.”

  I would ask the people who have that system what formats they can play.

  [beth clements] “How do I go about exporting a file that will be high quality and pc compatible? “

  Im not sure why anyplace that has a system for video playback does not have quicktime installed on the machine.

  There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
  Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!
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  Mark Suszko

  April 10, 2009 at 2:39 pm

  She said she edited in FCE, which means Final Cut Express, I think FCE only works with consumer DV25 footage, isn’t that right, or am I thinking of old iMovie? So no DVCPRO50 or DVCproHD for her there…

  In any case, my guess is she’s set her export wrong and is exporting a smaller lower resolution file, like a CIF sized avi or mov for youtube or something. That would explain an ugly, blocky-looking playback when scaled up to full size and projected, yuck…

  I think if I don’t know exactly what the target machine is capable of, to cover my bases I would export a rendered movie as mpeg2 and burn a DVD of it; you can play that off a 30-dollar DVD player or, once imported to the hard drive, most any computer that’s less than five years old. It would help to troublehsoot if you document exacly the settings you are using when you render and export, and report back here. Smarter folks than I will soon have it figured out for you.

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