Can’t make a non-self-contained movie

[Zane Barker]

How big is the file it gives you? Non Self contained fils still can have some weight in the size. Try and play the file on another computer or disconnect your media drive and see if it still plays.

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

[John Felt]

The files are like 12 gb for an hour- the same amount as a self-contained file. The weird thing is that I have another sequence in the same project that I was able to export as a reference file and it was like 1.03 gb.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks again!
John

[Zane Barker]

Did you try playing it on another computer or after disconnecting all media drives?

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

[Jeremy Garchow]

Make sure your movie is completely rendered before exporting, otherwise it will render while you export and make a large movie. That includes turning on the full options in your render all and render selection menus under Sequence.

Jeremy

[Paolo Ciccone]

What codec did you select for the compressor of the sequence? Codecs that use temporal compression, like HDV and MPEG, cannot be used for a QT reference movie as they require to rebuild the GOPs. Also the sequence has to be fully rendered in order to get a reference movie as QT needs to create pointers to the renderfiles

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[Rafael Amador]

[John Felt] “like 12 gb for an hour- the same amount as a self-contained file”

[John Felt] ” I was able to export as a reference file and it was like 1.03 gb.
“

Your FC must have something really wrong. A really would be scared of a Refference movie of 12Gbs or even 1Gb. You can get quite big Project files when the project contains many footage, sequences, layers, effects, etc. But a QT Reffrence movie in just a “play-list” pointing to clips.

Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.

[John Felt]

Thank you all for your responses. I am using a DV codec, and exporting with current settings. It is fully rendered.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks again for all your help,
John

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Felt] ” It is fully rendered.
“

Are you absolutely sure? Sorry to harp on this, but you have to go to the Sequence > Render ALL and Sequence > Render selection menus and make sure that all the options are checked, including ‘full’. By default these options aren’t checked.

Jeremy

[Martin Baker]

What version of FCP are you using John?

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[John Felt]

OK! That seems to be the problem, that it wasn’t “full”y rendered.

However, it does leave me a little perplexed:
The reason it needs to render is that I added color correction to the entire hour and a half. Is that normal that it would need to render it? I have never seen that need before.

Anyway, thank you all for your help. It is greatly appreciated.

John