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Exporting, bit confusing
1) I’m really baffled, when I export as a Quicktime Movie –30 second clip– (have box checked export as self containted movie), the export is very fast, yet size is large 1.2 GB, and I don’t get a QT movie, I get a Final Cut Express Movie file — which I don’t want.
(for some reason I remember doing it this way and indeed getting QT file, not anymore though)2) When export using the “use quicktime conversion” is takes hours and hours and hours to finish. I do get a QT movie, that is smaller the that Final Cut Express Movie, yet the size instead of being 1920×1080 becomes 1440 x 1080 – and data rate is different, from raw footage, if that means anything.
Is there a quick way to just do a quick edit and get a QT file same size as your raw footage. I’m wondering what had done before.
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1) QuickTime Movie is what you want. Final Cut is the creator type, but it is still a QuickTime .mov file that will work on a .mac. You remember incorrectly. It has always done this. You are don’t something wrong, not exporting what you think you’re exporting, because there is no way to export using QuickTime Movie in Final Cut Express and create a 1.2G file for a 30 second movie. It should be less than 100MB.
All the best,
Tom
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