Best QT Export

[David Bogie]

“One minute” still has interesting implications about file size. But I’d send them an exact copy of the sequence, exported in the code in which it was built.

Have you ever done FTP? Find yourself an FTP upload client (versiontracker.com) or determine if their site will accept files from a Web interface. Give yourself plenty of time to accomplish the upload and for them to test it and then tell you it didn’t work.

bogiesan

[Greg Ball]

Thanks Dave. What I’m looking for is the best way to export this sequence. They don’t have FCP, so why would I send them a sequence? I’m not understanding the rest of your advice. All I need to do is drop a Quicktime file on their FTP site. Why would I need to find” an FTP upload client (versiontracker.com) or determine if their site will accept files from a Web interface?

[Nicole Haddock]

I rarely have problems FTPing files to various sites, but occasionally you do hit upon a server that doesn’t like certain type files. That might be what Monsieur Bogiesan is getting at.

What are your sequence settings? If it’s a DV sequence, you can just go file/export quicktime (not conversion!!) and spit out a DV file. At 1 minute, it’ll be less than a gig. If it’s HD, or you’re editing in a specific codec, it gets more interesting.

[Arnie Schlissel]

[Greg Ball] “What’s the best export setting I can give them if they don’t have FCP?”

What codec did they ask for? You need to nail them down on that.

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[David Bogie]

[Greg Ball] “They don’t have FCP, so why would I send them a sequence? I’m not understanding the rest of your advice. All I need to do is drop a Quicktime file on their FTP site. “

I should have thought it obvious but you will eventually get the hang of this. You can’t export and send them a “sequence” at all. You’re going to send them a movie of the sequence in the codec and wrapper specified by them. You could send them the project from FCP but even if they have the software it’s worthless without the media.

The fact that they will do the conversion to PAL on their end is convenient but it doesn’t let you off the hook till you know what precisely what file their transcoder requires.

You’ve apparently never done an upload based on file transfer protocols the old fashioned way so my advice won’t mean anything to you till you discover their web site won’t accept your file as a drag and drop operation. Then you’ll need an FTP client. FTP, by its very definition, is painfully slow.

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