Do you lose any quality when exporting to quicktime? better way to rename pieces of batch capture?

[Thomas Morter-laing]

A search would have possiblyanswered this question, but yes; basically any exporting as a quictime movie would lose quality, although you don’t if you export as is already mentioned here: https://mobi.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1085793 (the “mobi” in that URL is cos I’m typing on an iPhone but it should still work):

but I don’t understand why you need to export the clips to rename them? Just rename them in the browser and right click and there is an option like “rename>file to match clip”. You can select multiple clips and use that option.

[Shane Ross]

[Paul Boone] “So I export quicktime files and re-import them so I can name them differently, but does this reduce quality?”

Why do you do this? This is bad on many levels. 1) Lose timecode information…ORIGINAL timecode, so any reference to the tape is gone. 2) Lose reel information…same reason, zero reference to tape. 3) Recompression…you are adding a generation loss to the footage.

Do you know about how to SUBCLIP? Take the master clips, and mark IN and OUT, press CMD-U and it makes a NEW clip, that you can name however you please, and the master clip remains untouched. I am unsure how you can name “section” of a clip.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

What Shane says, or use markers in long clips to mark certain sections.

[Paul Boone]

[Shane Ross] “Why do you do this? This is bad on many levels. 1) Lose timecode information…ORIGINAL timecode, so any reference to the tape is gone. 2) Lose reel information…same reason, zero reference to tape. 3) Recompression…you are adding a generation loss to the footage.

Do you know about how to SUBCLIP? Take the master clips, and mark IN and OUT, press CMD-U and it makes a NEW clip, that you can name however you please, and the master clip remains untouched. I am unsure how you can name “section” of a clip.”

Sweet, Thanks Shane. This is very helpful. I am pretty new and unknowledgable about editing so I’ve just been learning from tutorials.

Someone posted a link to a way to export to quicktime without losing quality (or maybe just not losing as much quality), but it doesn’t work. If anyone knows how to export to quicktime files without losing quality or the best method that would be great to hear.

Thanks

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Paul Boone] “Someone posted a link to a way to export to quicktime without losing quality”

I think it might be best to move on over to the FCP basics forum, but:

File > Export > Quicktime Movie. Check the self contained box. As long as you are exporting natively (same as your footage and a matching timeline codec) and there’s no effects applied, there’s no recompression, just a file copy of sorts. Shane pointed out all the faults with this method, though.

Jeremy

[Noam Osband]

I’ve been using this method but have been having problems because I’m losing the time code.

I need to make smaller versions of my captures files so I can send them via DVD or Dropbox to the translator on my project. I’ve been using different things to export QT files to a smaller size – MPEGStreamclip, QT 7, QT Amateur – but each time I lose the time code as you mentioned Shane.

Is there a way around this? How can I make much smaller QT files without losing time code?

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Noam Osband] “How can I make much smaller QT files without losing time code?”

make the sequence tc match your clip tc. or Add a tc reader filter.

Jeremy

[Noam Osband]

is this to say there is no way to make a smaller file that won’t have these problems? i’ll need some sort of workaround in the way you described?