Export Quicktime movie wont export full video

[Kenny Miracle]

Not sure why it’s only exporting 4 sec, but I always export QT Conversion. You just need to manually set your video/audio settings to match your sequence settings. Then you can compress the full quality QT file to a web format via Compressor or QT Pro.

QT Conversion takes a bit longer, but personally I like being able to customize my settings & I think the quality is a bit better. Of course quality is up for debate, tho.

Kenny Miracle

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[Walter Biscardi]

Do you have an In and Out Point set in your timeline? That’s the only way I know of to export only a portion of your timeline.

Using QT Conversion is definitely not the best way to export a timeline for use on the web because you have limited controls. We use the Quicktime Export function and then send the video into Compressor or Telestream Episode so we have full control over the compression.

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[Lawrence Ekin]

im pretty much sure it dosent have to do with things being selected or not because when i do conversion it does the whole thing but movie it does a couple seconds …

So if i do conversion i can still have a full quality video if i do manual settings? i had just read somewhere it compreses it and loses quality, ive tried messing around with it and it looks fine in quicktime but once i put it on the web it seems to not be as good quality as a video id done with the same camera but exported on a different computer using mpeg streamclip to compress for youtube on both

thanks for the responses

[Chris Gordon]

The Quick Time Export will create a reference video which really just points back to all of your original sort material and whatever you’ve had to render out. This should not affect quality at all, but the video won’t play on anything other than your machine since it doesn’t actually contain the video clips, but just points to them. Quick Time Conversion will encode everything into a completely new file with whatever settings you choose. You can then hand this file to anyone to watch (or post to YouTube), but there is some amount of loss, however small, due to the encoding pass. The amount of loss depends on the settings you choose. Something like Compressor (as Walter suggested) should give you even more control over the output and probably better quality than the QT Conversion in the editor. If you’re going to go the Compressor route, then the reference movie is a better option since you only encode the video once. Going through QT conversion and then to Compressor (or MPEG Streamclip) results in multiple encodings and the potential for more data loss.