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Differences between Quicktime movie and quicktime conversion
Okay, so this is a situation I have run across several times in my final cut pro days. I have a thirty minute piece all edited and ready to go to be converted to a solid quicktime for distribution and I usually choose file>export>quicktime conversion to do it. And I get an export time of about two hours. It wasn’t great but I had gotten used to it these past couple of weeks. But of course once the video was complete I needed to drop it back down into the timeline to do a print to tape, only to see that Final Cut then needed to render this whole 30 minute clip, which takes another hour. Fine, I’m used to it by now. However, just yesterday I tried something different where instead of choosing quicktime conversion, I chose file>export>quicktime movie and exported the whole darn thing in about fifteen minutes and when I dropped it into the timeline, it didn’t even need to render! What is going on? Can anyone explain what happens here?
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The Help menu would answer this for.
The default export for QuickTime Movie is to export to the current settings, basically the same movie that’s in your timeline, just as it is.
QuickTime Conversion defaults to exporting H.264 at some other setting. You need to specify what you want.
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Also worth noting is the “Make Movie Self-Contained” checkbox on the Export QT Movie setting. Unchecked, your export will be lightning fast, but completely useless if you take your exported file away from your rushes. The file still point sto the original material.
Make sure it’s checked if you need to distribute the file.
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Could it be because the conversion actually compresses your movie so there are less Mbs of info when uploading it to for example YouTube or Vimeo. 30mins of uncompressed vid could be a few Gbs and take for ever moving around devices/web etc. Compression reduces it to a few Mbs.
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