converting video to FLV via FCP 7

[Walter Biscardi]

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[Rafael Amador]

You need the Quicktimes FLV Component installed, the Flash shows as an option when exporting with QT Conveersion or compressor.
I don’t know if that component can be bought as stand alone.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jonathan White]

Perhaps others more knowledgeable will point out some problems but I’ve found that h.264 is supported by flash so I just rename them with a .flv extension. No complaints yet.

Johnny

Seanchas Productions, Galway, Ireland

[Chris Church]

Hi Johnny so you create your timeline footage at for arguments sake dvcpro50 and export the movie using h.264 then deliver your file as .flv and works on a website with as good quality as FLV?

C

[Herb Sevush]

Chris –

A company called On2 makes a plug-in called
Flix for exporting to flv from within Final Cut. I use it all the time.

https://flix.on2.com/

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions

[Joel Peregrine]

Ditto. Export as H.264 and relabel the file as .flv as Johnny says. Works with Flash Player version 9 which is very widespread.

[Bob Cole]

If you have Adobe CS3 or CS4 with Adobe Flash, File/Export/Quicktime Conversion gives you a Flash option.

Didn’t know about the H264 being renamed as .flv. Very interesting; maybe I’m too conservative but that hits me as potentially causing a problem down the line.

Bob C

[Mike Weber]

Bob –

Was this new in FCP 7? I am currently using FCP 6.0.6 (waiting until I get through some major projects before upgrading to v.7). I have CS4 installed on my system. Flash does not show up as an export option in either Final Cut Pro or Quicktime Player.

I currently export a QT movie from FCP (either stand-alone or reference), and then use Adobe Media Encoder CS4 to encode to Flash. But it’d be nice to export right from my timeline using FCP, so maybe that’s a feature to look forward to in version 7?

Strangely, I think when we had CS3, Flash was an export option from Quicktime.

thanks
Mike

[Tom Brooks]

I was skeptical about this at first, but Flash has broad compatibility with H.264 and AAC audio. This FAQ fills in the details some.
https://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:9:Update:H.264#H.264.2FHE-AAC_support_in_Flash_Player_9

[Rafael Amador]

[Bob Cole] “Didn’t know about the H264 being renamed as .flv. Very interesting; maybe I’m too conservative but that hits me as potentially causing a problem down the line. “
No problems at all. They can be played by QT and Flash.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com