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Exporting to Quicktime
Quick question, after I capture footage with Final Cut Pro, edit and export it as a self contained Quicktime movie, will it loose quality if I import the edited Quicktime movie, make edits to it and export it again as a self contained Quicktime movie? Thanks in advanced!
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3 Replies
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frank,
there are some parameters missing in your question…
i’m assuming you captured your footage properly and used a timeline that matched its settings, OR that you don’t care for matching quality to the highest it could be but rather to the mentioned export.
in short, if you exported using your timeline settings, (say DV PAL, for example) you are not really exporting per say, but rather copying and rearranging files into a new container.
when you import in FCP, again, its not really an import, more like an alias, a place holder. which means that if you only do cuts on your re-imported export, (which you could actually do inside quicktime), on a timeline that matches its settings, and re-export using same settings. you should be fine.
unless you lost your footage, or FCP project, or never had it from the start… its a strange way to go.
peace.
Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
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As long as you select “current settings” and don’t recompress the video, it won’t lose any quality.
Jerry
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Great thanks! What happened is that I edited something awhile back and now I want to cut some things out to trim down the running time. I don’t have the raw footage anymore, only the final edit. I opened a new project and kept the settings the same as what they were in the original. I just wasn’t sure if the footage would loose quality every time you re-export it.
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