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exporting
Hi
Exporting a very short piece on FCP is taking forEVER! For example, a two minute interview at settings H.264, 1920 x 1080 takes about 4 hours to export but they’re the only settings i could find which played back with enough quality and at 16:9 on youtube 🙁
Can anybody help??
Anastasia
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4 Replies
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You’re compressing a very huge file to a very small file, so unless you have a big, beefy desktop Mac and/or a Turbo, it’s time for a Render Wander.
It is the way it is.
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that seems like a very long time.
maybe you have LOTS of effects in your timeline?
the best way to do this is to NOT do hte conversion in FCP.
work in your sequence,
render,
export as a Quicktime Movie, same settings.bring that clip into COMPRESSOR,
and do the h264 conversion there,even if it takes a long time,
you can keep working in FCP.nick
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And, if you have a multicore machine, Compressor will use them all of them if set up properly.
John
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Have you rendered your sequence completely and is “Full” checked in the Render All drop menu? The FCP factory default settings do not have that checked, so don’t assume it is, and if it’s not, then you are re-rendering every frame during the export, which will slow things down tremendously.
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