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Final Cut is Crashing While trying to export an hourlong project
It’s happened about a half a dozen times already — it’s criving me nuts. I am trying to export using a pretty low impact codec (h264) — when I output the hourlong sequence Final Cut stops working — crashes and I get the error message below. It is a cut down of a webinar we did and I am trying to clean up the audio and some bad transitions… it’s not Ben Hur — Argh — can anyone help?
The webinar was recorded in wmv… and it comes into final cut perfectly but crashes on export.
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I don’t have an immediate solution for you, but I can tell you that any time I’ve ever brought a Windows Media file into FCP, it comes in fine just as you say, you can edit it, etc. But I consistently hvae had difficulties exporting it out – – FCP freezing, eventual beach ball of death, pretty much total aggravation. My solution, which I know will cause you to groan, has been to take my WMV clips and export those to a more “normal” editing format (Pro Res, DVC Pro, whtaever) and edit *those* clips. Probably not realistic for you at this time. Can you lay your edited timeline off to tape, digitize it back in using your favorite flavor codec, and export that?
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*wince*
I had thought about that — using WM7 to convert to a .mov file and then editing that — I am all digi so I don’t have any deck’s etc.
WOuld that work?
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I bought the FFM full edition.
But since you mention ProRes422 I can try outputting to that. The sad part is that after I cut it I need to them convert THAT to a wmv file to be re-uploaded to go to webinar…
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The truly sad part… is that it was a recording of a webinar — which looks crappy in any context. Go to webinar has a proprietary codec so they suggest recording it locally in Windows Media … which is what we did… so it is basically a power point presentation. There isn’t any “original footage” and I don’t know what is causing the crash — If i did I might be able to circumvent the crash — so frustrating
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I concur with Dave. Converting your WMVs to an extremely high quality codec like ProRes will yield little visual loss (I’ve done this before). YourPro Res files will look almost indistinguishable from the WMVs, and your final output to H.264 will look pretty darn acceptable. (remember, it’s a webinar, not a doc to be aired on PBS…)
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Should I do this with fcp or qt with f4m??
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Hey Guys!! Thanks for all your help. Should I convert the file using FCP or QT with Flip — full version?
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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! It exported!!
Last question…. for now — What settings should I use when using F4Mac to transcode the file into wmv format.
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