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Exporting Quick Time
I finished the first cut of my movie yesterday and it’s about 2 hours 11 minutes. Last night, before leaving the office, I attempted to export it to Quicktime. I got in this morning with “General Error” and a 0 KB output. So I tried again first thing. It’s been outputting for nearly 3 hours and is only done 19% of it. The Estimated Time keeps going up. It was 7 hours for a while, then 8, then 9. Just a minute ago it went to 11.
I’m not looking for a high quality output here, just something where I can see how the movie will look in Quicktime. I’m sure I’ll find all sorts of things to change before making another low quality cut for making changes. Is there some way that I can do this faster? I’ll have to leave the office eventually, likely before it’s done. I may come back tomorrow and find another general error. Argh!
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8 Replies
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What are your sequence settings? I’m guessing HDV. That will take quite some time depending on your system. What system are you using and how much ram?
If you had a production monitor, you would be able to see how your movie would look while editing.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group -
The computer is using 10.4.11, has 1.6 GHZ processor, and 2.25 GB memory. I know it’s slow, but it’s not my computer. I don’t know the sequence settings. I didn’t change them. So they’ll be default.
My laptop is using 10.6.4, has a processor Speed of 2.26 GHz, 2 GB Memory. The reason I’m using the computer with the slower processor is that my MacBook has only two USB ports and no Firewire. Since daisy chaining didn’t work, I couldn’t use my mouse when it’s attached to my laptop. The other computer has firewire.
I know neither of these computers are the best for using Final Cut Pro, but I have to edit myself and use what I have.
Should I interrupt it and try to output on my laptop? What settings will produce an okay quality file for viewing? Is a production monitor in Final Cut Pro?
Thank you so much for your help.
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well you need to figure out what your sequence settings are. hit apple zero on your timeline. is your sequence rendered before you try to export? and how are you exporting, same as source or doing a quicktime conversion. any of these things could be making your export time increase, but you need to figure out some small tech details first.
broadcast monitor means external, outside of the computer. necessary since computer screens display pixel sizes, colors and refresh rates different from a broadcast monitor.
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Yes, it was rendered. I’m using quicktime conversion. Since it’s outputting I can’t hit apple zero. Should I just stop this? It’s now up to “Estimated Time: 13 hours.”
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YES i would stop it. if your sequence is fully rendered, you should choose export – quicktime movie instead of quicktime conversion. this will result in a file exactly the same size and framerate as your sequence. if it’s SD, expect about 1.5-2 hours export. If HD double that…but 13 hours isn’t right!
also can then take your exported file, open up compressor and use one of the DVD settings to make a file you can then burn in DVD Studio Pro…
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I stopped it.
It’s 720 x 480, NTSC, 3:2. PIxel Aspect Ratio: NTSC-CCIR 601
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO-NTSC
It’s output as H.264.I’ll try to use Quicktime movie.
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yeah do that, you will be in much better shape!
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To view your movie, all you need is a cheap DV camera and any TV set. Connect your camera to your computer via firewire and connect a/v out of camera to input to tv.
Don’t use QuickTime Conversion. Make a Reference QuickTime Movie. I’ll make another guess that you won’t have enough room on your hard drive if you made a self-contained movie. You would need about 30GB of free space.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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