[Expletive deleted] Can’t “share”, and YouTube spurns FCPX-generated .mov files!

[Jason Brown]

suggestion? Spend as much energy researching the problem as you did typing this post! 🙂

YouTube won’t accept a “Quicktime Movie” as you call it, likely because it is a ProRes movie. YouTube is only going to accept common video formats. The “Quicktime Movie” is a container…more importantly is the “codec” which if you open quicktime and press CMD+I will tell you what it is.

.MOV files can contain hundreds of codecs…saying “Quicktime Movie” is like me saying I drive an automobile. It’s too generic.

Hope that helps give you some direction.

-Jason

[T. Payton]

So to clarify, are you using the “Share > YouTube” function in FCP X?

I believe that you have some frustration, but frankly I have found sharing the YouTube is something that FCP X does unbelievably well. Easily takes just a 1/4 of the time it did in FCP 7.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Mark Morache]

I tried this the other day, and it looked like it was going to take hours to export a 6 minute movie from FCX on my MBP 2.66 dual.

I have an elgato turbo, and I love it. It’s $99 and not only does it compress the footage into h264 much faster than my MBP, but it does the pixel crunching, leaving my processor available for other things, like editing and posting on the Cow.

Turbo has a direct setting for youtube hd. It will encode your clip, and upload it for you if you’d like. I’ve been very happy with it.

And if you want to put a movie on your iphone, it rips the movie in 4x or better.

Using the Turbo, I export my prores from FCX then drag the exported clip onto the Turbo app.

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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.

Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[John Mendelsohn]

Thanks for your reply, Jason. Though a bit snide, it contained some valuable information. 🙂

Is there no way to save a .mov file in FCPX that YouTube will accept? Why are .m4v files generated by FCPX so much larger than those from FCP7? Is there a way to make them more compact? And what of the incomprehensible error messages I keep getting?

[John Mendelsohn]

Elgato Turbo? Google, here I come! Is that hardware or software, animal, vegetable, or mineral?

[Mark Morache]

[John Mendelsohn] “Is that hardware or software, animal, vegetable, or mineral?”

It’s actually both.

It’s a small usb device that looks like a usb drive, and software that helps you manage your encoding. It will work without the dongle, but it works so much faster with the device, and that’s what you’re paying for.

Best of all, with the turbo attached, Mpeg Streamclip and Quicktime 7 both have export settings that use the turbo acceleration.

And this I love… if someone gives me a dvd as source, I just rip it to an mp4 file, and drag it into FCX and start editing natively.

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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.

Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com

[T. Payton]

John – I don’t know if you saw my post. Are you using the Share > YouTube function?

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Jason Brown]

Mark, have u tried the Matrox compress hd? I’ve wondered how these 2 match up in terms of speed. I use compress hd all the time, it’s simply amazing how quick it is.

[Jason Brown]

John…sorry about the “snide” tone…I meant it more sarcastically! 🙂

Don’t know what to make of ur error messages, but in terms of size…it’s all about bitrate. Run an app called videospec, I think I got link from apples site. It’s free and u can dial down to some very detailed info about compressed files and see what’s under the hood. That will help u diagnose comparison issues.

[Mark Morache]

I am not using a tower anymore, and I don’t need any of the more expensive matrix i/o devices that have this. I think my turbo does the same thing for me, perhaps not as fast, but for $99 it’s an alternative I’m happy with.

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FCX. She tempts me, abuses me, beats me up, makes me feel worthless, then in the end she comes around, helps me get my work done, gives me hope and I can’t stop thinking about her.

Mark Morache
Avid/Xpri/FCP7/FCX
Evening Magazine,Seattle, WA
https://fcpx.wordpress.com