Exported movie longer than FCP sequence!

[Jerry Hofmann]

Could it be that you’ve set an out point later than at the end of the sequence?

Jerry

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[Mark Maness]

Have you checked to see if there some piece of media that got shoved down your timeline about ten minutes after you program?

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[Steve Eisen]

Shift Z will allow you to see the entire timeline.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Jeremy Levine]

Thanks for everyone’s response. There is no extra media at the end, the out point is set at the right place and I checked that every clip and sequence is 23.98 (I went into sequence settings for each sequence and I checked the clips in the browser). Is there anywhere else I should look?

Out of curiosity, I tried exporting the first 10 seconds of the sequence and it came out to be 12 seconds long!

For reference, I had copied and pasted media from other sequences into this master sequence, but it’s all the same footage and set at the same sequence settings. Totally confused here.

[Jeremy Levine]

Another update, I tried a rough timing test, using a stop watch against playing my timeline back. After 10 seconds on my stop watch, the sequence was only at 1:00:08:00. What could cause this?

[Adam Smith]

I had that gravity well thing once before… tough to troubleshoot unless you can move the whole edit rig. Test the other options first.

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[Jeremy Levine]

Thanks to all. Yes, must have been space-time continuum. I trashed preferences, no effect. Then I created a new sequence, copied and pasted from the old sequence, and the new sequence is now 50 minutes, the same time as the export. Still confused, but problem solved.

[John Pale]

Does the timecode rate match the acutal frame rate? Could the timecode rate be 60 ?

[Jeremy Levine]

How does one check the timecode rate?

[Randy Lee]

Open up your sequence and hit cmd-0 (that is a zero). That’ll give you everything you need to know. Otherwise it’s in the browser, for both the individual clips and the timelines, if you just scroll over to be able to see it.