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  • Everything I export comes out “blocky”

    Posted by Nate Boston on October 16, 2006 at 10:06 pm

    Alright, so we recently upgraded FCP to version 5.1.2 on two machines. Machine A had a hang up during the upgrade and it didn’t finish. Machine B worked beautifully. Machine A is our online suit, and has the project on it that I need to export to a quicktime movie. A simple task normally, but of course it’s anything but right now…

    Whenever I try to export the tracksheet, things go well and it does it’s job. When I open the quicktime I’ve created though, it comes out “blocky” looking….almost like a bad streaming video from the internet. Doesn’t matter if I export it with Sorenson 3, Compressor, or the current project setttings – they all come out blocky.

    So what gives? I’ve gone over my settings again and again, and I’ve searched these forums countless times, but I haven’t heard of anything like this before. On a side note, Machine B will export just fine. Maybe a problem with the upgrade? Has anyone else seen this?

    Thanks…..

    Nate

    Nate Boston replied 19 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • David Roth weiss

    October 17, 2006 at 5:47 pm

    I think something is definitely wrong with your machine, this is not a common problem.

  • Nate Boston

    October 17, 2006 at 11:21 pm

    You’re definitly right…..although I think the problem lies within FCP.

    I contacted Apple today about this, and they told me to delete all of FCP and re-install. Before doing this, I moved all my external pluggins to another drive, for backup. I reinstalled FCP, opened my project, and same problem. I then created a new project, copied just the video I needed, and BAM! It worked! I have yet to drop in my pluggins, but as of now I’m back in business.

    My best guess is FCP and/or my project files were corrupt. Either way I seems to be back in order. Thanks for the help!

    Nate

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