fcp 7 – Export: Quicktime Movie not working

[Shane Ross]

What OS are you running? Later OS versions cripple QT’s ability to read several types of codecs natively…and want to convert them in order to play them. Only ProRes and H.264 play natively in QT anymore. I see that you are cutting and outputting PHOTO JPEG…yeah, that’s one it won’t play back without converting.

But not open in VLC player? Hmmm

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[Hope Holmesby]

Hi…thank you for your answer…Mavericks OS.

so h.264 and pro res only work now w fcp 7 and quicktime..

it was working this past year…..

hmmm

wow, so sad…
yeah, not open in vlc and the file size is about 61MB, which seems odd, should be more like 700MB.

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[Shane Ross]

[Hope Holmesby] “so h.264 and pro res only work now w fcp 7 and quicktime..”

No…H.264 never really worked with FCP 7. It seemed like it might, but sync issues were rampant. Always needed to convert to a FCP 7 editing codec.

NOW..for QT…yeah, that’s the issue. Apple is phasing out QT, and so they have been making things not work. QTX was never ever fully featured…it was LESS featured than QT 7. But even that, in later OS versions, couldn’t read some codecs, and neeeded to convert them.

If you want to continue to use FCP 7 fully featured, then you need to stick to the older OS versions. Every version made one thing or another stop working, and with High Sierra, support for FCS 3 was completely dropped.

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[Hope Holmesby]

Hi Shane,

You are very kind to take the time to answer this. Thank you for all your knowledge and expertise.

Ok, I just tried it out:

=== Export: Quicktime Movie

Used settings as above screen grab, except changed the Photo-Jpeg to h.264, and the 4 Apple Pro Res options. All of those did work. Nice icon for the movie and it opened.

The photojpeg export is definitely not working anymore….they must have upgraded Mavericks to not work with that codec…..sad face…..that is, with the ‘export: qt movie’ option……not opening in VLC either.

It does open in qt 7 player, but the export size was only 31MB for a 3min. video….not at all the usual. Would normally be about 800 MB in the past. Very odd.

=== Using this:

Export: qt conversion

it does work, and it is a file size of 1GB.

=== FCS 3 – cant run in hi sierra…….
I guess all the projects made w it will not work or open in the new fcx, either. One will have to recreate them in the new environment of fcx. hmmmm

I have one older computer as mentioned in the log under my name, and a new one….but have not started using it for such projects…..

Thanks again for all the tips. Greatly appreciate….

===BTW, what is replacing QT? What is the best codec for the web these days? the h.264?

Warmly, Hope

[Nick Meyers]

“the file size is about 61MB, which seems odd, should be more like 700MB.”
” the export size was only 31MB for a 3min. video….not at all the usual. Would normally be about 800 MB in the past”

this indicates to me that you are exporting as a REFERENCE FILE
you need to have “Make Movie Self Contained” checked
it’s towards the bottom left and corner of the export window.

[Hope Holmesby]

[Nick Meyers] “this indicates to me that you are exporting as a REFERENCE FILE
you need to have “Make Movie Self Contained” checked
it’s towards the bottom left and corner of the export window.”

Wow, you are right, Nick, that did it…OMG !!!!! I had to check the ‘Make self-contained movie’ in the qt export window.

It was working recently, then now..not working. But that was the trick. I had uncheck or somehow that got unchecked. WOWOWOWOWOW.

Now it is 1GB file, and no ‘converting’ needed. Just amazing that this answer came. Thanks so much for taking the time to read and answer.

Brilliant. and Shane, thank you so much for your help too. Appreciate both!

Also,

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[Hope Holmesby]

Hi Dave,

Always nice to hear from you.

Thank you for taking the time to write this up. You are very knowledgeable…charming explanation.

Yes, I didnt realize about the unchecked box for make self-contained movie.

I will always remember this lesson.

Hope all is well there in Iowa, …the heartland…and at Fox and CBS (your ‘about’ on this forum)

And all the rest of you great great experts, who take the time to help us here on this forum. Very very kind heart and generous-spirited.

Warmly,
Hope

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