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Exporting Timeline From Final Cut For Web
I am trying to export a video from final cut for a website. I want the video to be able to play on most computers, not just the ones with the most up to date software. I tried exporting it as a Sorrenson file and that didn’t work and Mpeg4 looks generally too crappy, I don’t want it to be too big so quicktime file seems to be out. I don’t want people to have to wait very long for it to stream. Does anyone have any advice?
Elyssa
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One way is turn it into a WMV file. That seems to be a good quality, codec that most people corporte clients can view. There are many brands of software that will do that. Flip4Mac Episode, Cleaner etc. But if you have a PC laying around, I learned this trick from an animator friend and it’s free!
Export from FCP as an un-compressed AVI file. Then use a PC’s built-in Windows ‘MovieMaker’ software to create WMV files. They work great and even better than some of my WMV files I created on my Mac. Sometimes those PC guys come-up with a good idea – haha.
Ernie Santella
Santella Film/Video Productions
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I hear that Flash video is the way to go. Most browsers can playback Flash, so for playback on the most machines, use a Flash encoder like On2 or cleaner.
pxlmvr
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I made some tests months ago with Sorenson, MPG4 and RealPlayer. The quality of the picture was far more better with Realplayer, but somebody taold me in this forum that the use of this format was not much spreaded. As long as I know, and as Jhon says, Flash in very much in fashion, but I didn’t try yet.
salud,
Rafael
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