FCP to FLV file

[Christopher Targia]

Export as an H.264 file with AAC Audio, as quicktime conversion. Then change the file extension to .flv. This works flawlessly! If you will be doing this alot I would recommend the el Gato TurboHD, its a USB drive you plug into your computer and contains a program that pumps out H.264 files very fast! I use it all the time, all of my editing online and put them into flash this way.

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Here is a link to the product-
https://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/products/Accessories/Turbo264HD/product3.en.html

[Jean-christophe Boulay]

You could export directly to FLV with Perian (https://perian.org/#download). It will integrate FLV and many other omitted formats to your Quicktime. In FCP, under Export using Quicktime Conversion, you’ll have the choice to export to FLV.

IHTH

JC Boulay
Technical Director
Audio Z
Montreal, Canada
http://www.audioz.com

[Laura Williams]

Thanks, but when i exported using quicktime conversion the file was all distorted, very bad quality.

[Laura Williams]

Will that keep the audio, I was able to successfully change the mov to a flv but when i did that i lost the audio, i will try exactly what you said and see if that works, if it does i will be soo happy, been trying to figure this out since yesterday.

[John Fishback]

I always export a self-contained QT (not QT Conversion) with Current Settings. Then I use Compressor to make the h.264 from that file. It’s fast if you have QMaster setup to use multiple cores.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.8 QT7.6.4 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 3 (FCP 7.0.2, Motion 4.0.2, Comp 3.5.2, DVDSP 4.2.2, Color 1.5.2)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO & 192 Digital I/O, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Christopher Targia]

What John said is probably the best way to do it. I still would recommend elgato’s program if you are going to be doing this alot. It does this same thing faster.