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Final Cut Pro HD export Problem
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Yea it’s an issue with FC7. I changed the sequence setting to Apple ProRes and now I’m rendering the entire video over again.
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Look forward to hearing how it turns out as it’s similar to a problem i had before.
I’m currently cutting a short film in ProRes so i will live and learn!
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Ahhhhh!!!!!!! I really don’t get it! I spent all night exporting (twice) and as it comes to the end I get “General Error” with no explanation. When I export as self-containing movie. Then when I export without it, it comes out fine. Except when I transfer to Compressor or Quicktime it has no video it just comes out as an audio file. What am I doing wrong?!
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Have you only selected the audio preset in compressor?
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Ooooookay. I think it’s safe to say your idea worked, Shane. Thanx for the advice. Going forward I will convert my files before I edit. Seems like a pain but if it stops this from happening again, then so be it.
What I did was:
– I changed the sequence settings to “Apple Pro Res 422” and had to re-render (it took me all night but I have about 2 gigs of space left on my computer).– I tried to export without changing the settings. I figured I would do what I usually did and convert it to youtube quality via Quicktime. But, Quicktime wouldn’t read the video, it would only play the audio.
– I ended up converting the file using Quicktime Conversion and “Apple ProRes 422 (HD)” and it looks like it worked. I got a super huge file (11 gigs) but I’m compressing it now and everything looks normal.
lol, hopefully someone else finds an easier way, lol. But, my computer has other issues aside from this so I don’t blame FCP. I just needed to free up some extra space to make the computer go faster.
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[Cory Lewis] “- I ended up converting the file using Quicktime Conversion and “Apple ProRes 422 (HD)” and it looks like it worked. I got a super huge file (11 gigs) “
OK, you are going to have to realize that 11GB is not “super huge.” That is about, what? 12 min of video? H.264 is HIGHLY compressed, and not suited for editing, as you noticed. because of the compression. YOu needed to make it into an edit friendly codec, and that means that file sizes will be bigger. Be glad that ProRes exists, otherwise you’d be dealing with Uncompressed video for the same quality, and file sizes 10x larger than ProRes.
Solution: Get bigger drives. 4TB drives are under $500.
[Cory Lewis] “lol, hopefully someone else finds an easier way, lol”
There is. If you want to edit natively, look at using solutions that do that: FCX, Premiere Pro…to name two. They work natively, but have a LOT going on under the hood to make it so.
Shane
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Hy,
the same thing happened to me today. I’m a student, and tomorrow is my exam so I have about two hours left to save my footage.
I know i know, i should have worked earlier, but now i have a 20min video with this problem. so the thing is, i have to ask another stupid question because my movie is on college computer and i can’t check what will work for me.
anyway the stupid question isif i go and use quick time conversion, i’ll put apple prores 422, but what about apple intermediate codec ? we usually work with apple int. codec and not prores. what is the difference? prores 422 is better for HD videos i guess?
sorry to be bugging you but after the last 12 hours entirely spent in fcp i really dont know what is what.. thank you 🙂
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