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AVI Export woes in FCP
Hey folks.
Had a moment this morning when I just wanted to torch the edit suite and go home. Needed to export 15 x 15 minute sequences last night into AVI for a pre-dub track-lay. I started off with 5×30 second clips, tested the settings in batch-export directly from FCP – all worked fine, so set the main sequences to do the same.
8 hours later, out of the 15 clips, 5 worked and 10 are just white.
All footage is the same (Uncompressed 8-bit HD1080i), all sequences were set up identically, all started with a slate, all had an in point at beginning, an out at the end, and all effects were rendered (there were no real-time effects in the sequence due to a previous question about colour shifts).
But some worked, others didn’t.
I figure you’re already thinking ‘Erm, why not use compressor?’ simply because that’s crashed out of me before, and I thought i’d give the batch export in FCP a go, as though it can sometimes be slower, it hasn’t crashed the software before (admittedly, compressor crashed when trying to encode 800 clips at once though…)
Does anyone know why this might have happened, and more importantly, how to make sure it doesn’t happen again? I kinda do need to set up an overnight batch encode. So though a single export using something like Mpeg Streamclip is a solid way to go, it’s not really an overnight option.
Thanks in advance for any help you can be.
John.
John Steventon
JKL Editing
http://www.jklediting.com
“Success is merely a failure to imagine more…”2.26 Dual Quad Nehalem Mac Pro / 2 x 23inch Apple Displays / FCP 6.05 / Decklink HD Extreme 3 + Multibridge / JVC HD Monitor / Atto Celerity Fibre Channel with Infortrend 6.5tb Raid 5 Storage / And a smile.
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[John Steventon] ” So though a single export using something like Mpeg Streamclip is a solid way to go, it’s not really an overnight option. “
Hi John,
You may need to update.
MPEGStreamclip does batch export.
rafael -
ah ok I’ll take another look. still not ideal as I need to make Quicktimes first which sometimes takes 2 mins, sometimes 10, which all seems a little random when I’ve already rendered everything and I’m just exporting a reference though.
though that is a workaround, surely I should’t need to. if I wanted bodges and work arounds I’d have stuck with Avid!
thanks for the helpful advice though.
john.
John Steventon
JKL Editing
http://www.jklediting.com
“Success is merely a failure to imagine more…”2.26 Dual Quad Nehalem Mac Pro / 2 x 23inch Apple Displays / FCP 6.05 / Decklink HD Extreme 3 + Multibridge / JVC HD Monitor / Atto Celerity Fibre Channel with Infortrend 6.5tb Raid 5 Storage / And a smile.
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