Can’t Export as a Quicktime Movie

[David Mayer]

Got some excellent ideas from Creative Cow.
More info:

The sequence has several TIFF images – is that a problem?
Should I export them as a QT movie and import them back in?

I just successfully made a DVD from one minute of the 30-minute
sequence.

So now I know I can probably make 6 movies that are
5-minutes long each and create the DVD that way.

Which idea is better?
1 – Create 5-minute movies in FCP, export them
separately and paste them together in DVD Studio Pro…

or

2 – Bring the first 5-minutes into a fresh FCP sequence and
render it (BTW, nothing would render before, either – I forgot to
mention that in the original post), then pull in the next 5
minutes, render that, and possibly re-create the entire
sequence bit by bit – then try Exporting again.

iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB
OS 10.6.8
Final Cut Pro 7.0.3
Canon C100

[David Mayer]

Things working better when I remove TIFFs.

Is it possible the TIFFs were the sole culprit?

I never had a problem in the SD days – is it a new
situation now – incompatibility with HD?

Is there a better stills format than TIFF?

Or just export them as a QT movie and import back in?

(All my TIFFs are in groups that last a minute or so.)

iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB
OS 10.6.8
Final Cut Pro 7.0.3
Canon C100

[Shane Ross]

How big are the TIFFs? FCP can’t handle anything over 4000 pixels.

[david mayer] “I never had a problem in the SD days – is it a new
situation now – incompatibility with HD?”

Most likely because the stills were smaller then.

[david mayer] “Is there a better stills format than TIFF?”

I use TIFFs all the time…just check the size.

[david mayer] “Or just export them as a QT movie and import back in?”

How can you do that when you can’t export a QT movie BECAUSE they are in the cut? 🙂

Shane
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[David Mayer]

Shane – I knocked down the size of the TIFFs and that seems
to have fixed everything.

Thanks so much.

(BTW, to answer your question, I was able to export
the TIFFs before as a QT movie “Using quick Time compression”
but not using the one I needed for Compressor: as “Quicktime Movie”)

iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB
OS 10.6.8
Final Cut Pro 7.0.3
Canon C100