Exporting self-contained movie makes ref movie

[David Roth weiss]

You’d best check in Sequence>>Render All to insure that “Full” is checked. Then hit render, and then export a self contained QT.

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[Rafael Amador]

[Dave LaRonde] “Export using Quicktime Conversion, in the exact same settings as the FCP timeline so QT doesn’t try to re-render anything.”
QT Conversion re-compress everything whatever are your setting.
Exporting with QT Player always re-compress, even if you export with the same parameters of your media.
The only case that QT do not renders is when you use the “Save As..” function.
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[Andy Mees]

Niklas
Does this 300 MB file pay back correctly? Is your target hard drive full?
If you are convinced that you’ve got all the settings correct (and choosing Export > Quicktime Movie w. Current Settings and Make Movie Self Contained ticked is all there is to it, you should not have to use any other method) and if its definitely not working correctly then you’ve probably got some hosed preferences. Trash them and try again.
You can trash preferences manually, but using a simple tool to do the job makes it easy and offers some other advantages too (like backup and restore). One of the best FCP preference managers available is Jon Chappell’s excellent Preference Manager … and its free!
Quit FCP, trash the prefs, relaunch FCP and try the export again .. post back
Andy

[Niklas Wikman]

Ooops, “Full” was NOT checked.

Did that, re-rendered the sequence (20 min or so).

Still gets out as a non self-contained movie. The other sequence (that did export correctly) did have Sequence -> Render only -> Full checked.

Strange…

[Niklas Wikman]

Thanks for the tip. Trashed the FCP prefs using the app, opened the project. Still small file when exporting QT movie as self-contained.

Not sure how or what do to. I really really want to bunk the sequences as self-contained movies to tape, to make sure nothing goes wron (even if ref movies has worked fine in 99% of the time.)

Niklas

[Niklas Wikman]

(I tried to edit the previous post, but it did not stick, for some reason…)

I selected all items in the sequnece, created a new one and pasted all items into that one. Re-rendered (not needed) and now the export to self-contained QT worked just fine.

Thanks for all your help!

Niklas – going to bed now