Final Cut Export finishes without the full movie!

[Jeremy Belzer-adams]

First thing to do is make sure that you dont have in/out points set on the timeline. Thats the only reason I can think of that the file would export without errors, yet still be missing the same section…

[Kevin Johnson]

Thanks, but na no in or out … on all the tests ive tried, it has been cutting off at different times. its an hour and 16 minutes long and the quicktime movie only has until 55min 44 seconds or 59 min 33 seconds. I took out a four minute section which would of course make it shorter explaining the difference there, but why it’s stopping around that point i dont know- stops at different spot on the clip too.

[Sam Dryden]

I had a similar problem. I broke my 5 minute sequence into 5 different sequences. Then I compressed each separately. then I combined the sections in one timeline and re-compressed. Pain in the ass but it worked.

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[Warren Eig]

Where are you exporting to? Local drive, shared storage? Exporting over AFP? What version of Final Cut?

Warren

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[Kevin Johnson]

I captured footage onto an external drive- and exporting to my desktop. I have final cut 6.

If I were to export sections as quicktime movies and and reimport them into final cut and export again- would i lose quality?

It’s a wedding video so I’m looking for best quality possible, but something that works.

Also, the final quicktime comes out to around 90 GB which i know is pretty big but figured better to have the most quality as idvd will compress anyway. Could the file size be an issue?

Also, I was under the impression that it was due to dropped frames- because playback in final cut works fine- even with preferences checking for dropped files… but in quicktime it stutters a lot right before the end.

[Misha Tenenbaum]

I would also check your system settings and make sure you don’t have “limit capture/export file segment size” checked. Also, make sure that you have enough room on your scratch disk and that the “minimum allowable free space” setting is set to a proper size.

The exporting in sections fix is a great one and I have used it in the past. This way you’ll know if it’s a ‘corrupt clip’ that’s causing the error which can happen.

You really don’t lose any quality if you are using prores especially if your deliverable is a DVD or something like that.

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[Kevin Johnson]

alright cool cool- the min allowable free space on scratch disk is 2047… is that proper?i have 160 GB free so it shouldnt be a prob- and no limit capture/export

I’m going to try the multiple exports, reimport and again export. In that situation- i should fall into the same problem right?

[Zane Barker]

Did you edit it in HDV or in ProRes. If you edited it in HDV what are you trying to accomplish by exporting using ProRes and will it export if you just have it export with the current timeline settings?

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Zane Barker]

Did you edit it in HDV or in ProRes. If you edited it in HDV what are you trying to accomplish by exporting using ProRes and will it export if you just have it export with the current timeline settings?

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Tom Matthies]

If you are exporting to your Desktop (Read:system drive) do you know you have enough room left on the drive for the full Quicktime file?
Tom

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