Export FLV using Final Cut Pro

[Eric Hansen]

Perian is a plug-in for Quicktime that allows it to playback more formats than Quicktime alone, such as FLV. it does not however support export. its playback only.

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[Laura Cumbo]

I had the same problem so I installed a 30 day trial of Adobe Flash CS3 and that put the .flv in my export window in Final Cut Pro….new problem, it doesn’t work!!! So I have to export to Quicktime and import it into Adobe Flash and convert it that way…at the end it says ‘Failed to complete’ but there’s an icon on my desktop of the clip in flv format and it works fine!

Does anyone know why this is happening?

Thanks,
Laura

[Sunita Sayana]

Hi I am trying to get the best possible quality video for my website for video shoots done in HD and edited in FCP.

My question is do I need to set anything in the advanced tab of visual hub?

Here is the process I use:

From Final Cut Pro I use QuickTime Conversation
File–>Export–>Using QuickTime Conversion
Click options
Click settings and:
Compression type: H.264
Quality: Best
Click OK
Click size and:
Choose custom, 480 X 270 px
Click the De-interlace button
Click OK

I then drop the QuickTime file into Visual hub and select raw FLV checkbox.
Should I be doing anything with the advanced settings in Visual Hub?

Thanks in advance!

[Dan Enser]

We recently purchased Flash Pro CS4 for Mac, installed full program, restarted our system. Once we opened FCP 6.04 there was not an option in Quicktime conversion for a .flv file. What did we do wrong?

[Elijah Lynn]

We have Flash 8 and FCP 6.0.5 and I have installed the Flash Media Encoder. Nowhere in any of the menus for Compressor or Export Using Quicktime Conversion is there a FLV option.

I just reinstalled Flash 8 and still nothing.

Any ideas?

[Andrew Roger]

If the flash component is truly installed, you need to click the little plus tab in the top right corner of the settings window and select Quicktime Export Components. It’ll pop up in your custom settings at the bottom. Click that and move to the browser where you can select FLV as well as many other non-quicktime based formats like WMV, AVI, Dvix, if you have them installed. If you mess with the settings, a non-FCP window will pop up. You’re actually using Adobe’s application under the guise of compressor. Make your settings, drop it on your clip and submit.
Hope that helps!

[Elijah Lynn]

I’m linking another thread to this one to show screenshots of my dialogue menus. The FLV option is missing.

I reinstalled Flash once and I will try once more. Any other ideas?

[Elijah Lynn]

Looks like I never crosslinked the thread. I recently installed Flash 9 (CS3) and I still do not have the option to export to FLV from within Final Cut Pro.

Here is the thread I started for my issue. Hopefully I will fix it soon and this will help some others.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1014289

[Jeff Toner]

Hey Dan and everyone,

Just wondering if you ever found a solution to exporting an .flv from Final Cut Pro with CS4. I know that with CS3 installed you were given the option but when we installed CS4 Master Collection on a new computer there was no option within Final Cut to export an flv using the adobe flash encoder. Did Adobe drop this support in CS4?

[Elijah Lynn]

Hi,

I fixed it for CS3. Try the last post here. https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1014289

Let us know if it works.