FCP settings list to long – how to cut & how to save settings

[Shane Ross]

Use COMPRESSOR. You can FILE>EXPORT>via COMPRESSOR…and you can make a favorite there. And it is MUCH faster than FCP in converting. Especially if you set it up to use all of your processors.

Shane

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[Shane Ross]

You can’t. This is why I suggested Compressor. And it is just about as quick as FCP. WHY? Because you can send the job to compressor right from FCP, and then you have access to all of your preset settings. Straight QT Conversion from FCP won’t save custom settings. Sucks.

Shane

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[Rory Hinds]

Hi Shane

Thanks for you’re help.

Adding compressor to the chain would slow me down as my spots are 30 seconds so output from FCP is much quicker.

Do you know if you can customize the list in FCP?

Regards
Rory

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[Ernie Santella]

Plus, if you export as a reference file, then you can continue to edit in FCP while compressor works in the background.

Ernie Santella
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[Alex Elkins]

[Ernie Santella] “Plus, if you export as a reference file, then you can continue to edit in FCP while compressor works in the background.”

I can’t believe I never thought to do that. The lack of background rendering when exporting from FCP is a massive gripe I have with Compressor.

Anyway, in response to the original post I think if you go to Audio/Video Settings/Sequence Presets and duplicate one of the ones already there, you can edit it to be your own custom setting when you export. You can choose whatever compressor, frame size, interlacing etc you want. Not something I’ve done before but I think I will now that I’ve worked it out.
Looks like you can also delete ones you don’t want, but that’s not something I’m willing to test, just in case!

[Mark Palmos]

[Shane Ross] “And it is just about as quick as FCP.”

Hi there Shane,

One thing I really miss using Compressor is FCP’s ability to batch render sequences.

We had about 108 sequences to render to flash last week and it was a breeze batch rendering the sequences directly from FCP. Compressor, i think, can only be given one FCP sequence at a time, very limiting in that regard.

Till later
Mark.

[Alex Elkins]

[Mark Palmos] “Compressor, i think, can only be given one FCP sequence at a time, very limiting in that regard.”

Compressor is designed precisely to DO batch rendering – it does a really good job of it too. In the browser window just select all the sequences you want to encode and go File/Export/Export Using Compressor (or right click). Then once in Compressor you need to select all of the sequences and then drag your desired settings over – applies it straight to every item.

[Mark Palmos]

[Alex Elkins] “Compressor is designed precisely to DO batch rendering – it does a really good job of it too. In the browser window just select all the sequences you want to encode and go File/Export/Export Using Compressor (or right click). Then once in Compressor you need to select all of the sequences and then drag your desired settings over – applies it straight to every item.”

OMG
amazing, that works fantastically. There is no RH mouse contextural menu for send to compressor, and I have never tried this, great, and goodbye to batch export via fcp!

Cheers
Mark.

[David Roth weiss]

Mark,

The problem with that method is that you can’t keep editing FCP while compressor does its thing. However, if you export reference movies and import them into Compressor you can.

David

David Roth Weiss
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