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Getting the timeline to EXACTLY MATCH a clip setting
Per some study, FCP is apparently extremely anal about letting a user string clips together and making a QT reference movie of the sequence.
Apparently, and please correct me if wrong, the Timeline Sequence settings must ___exactly match___ the clip settings.
However, there seems no easy way to __tell__ FCP to force a sequence to match the clip settings. You can drag a clip to a sequence and get the message (in effect) ” clip doesn’t match sequence; reset sequence to match clip settings?” and think you are home free. No, you are not, because when you do this, and try to render the QT reference movie, FCP stubbornly renders out the FULL CLIP.
So can anyone please tell me a bulletproof way to get FCP sequence to 100% match the settings of a clip , so this QT reference export actually works?
By comparison, QT PRO seems to care less about mixing formats, though the overall size seems to scale up to accomidate the largest clip. Granted, this sort of clip is a whacko mess, but suggests QT PRO is much less tempermental about this sort of thing
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[Kurt Wiley] “Apparently, and please correct me if wrong, the Timeline Sequence settings must ___exactly match___ the clip settings.”
You are not wrong.
[Kurt Wiley] “However, there seems no easy way to __tell__ FCP to force a sequence to match the clip settings.”
Choose an EASY SETUP that matches what you are capturing…make a new sequence. Or…
[Kurt Wiley] “You can drag a clip to a sequence and get the message (in effect) ” clip doesn’t match sequence; reset sequence to match clip settings?” and think you are home free.”
Yup…with FCP 6 what you drag or cut a clip into the sequence, it will adjust the sequence to match the settings of the clip. There might be problems if you try to edit delivery codecs like H.264 or Sorenson…
[Kurt Wiley] “No, you are not, because when you do this, and try to render the QT reference movie, FCP stubbornly renders out the FULL CLIP.”
Dunno what you mean by this. It will export what you tell it to. If you have the entire clip in the sequence, it will export the entire sequence. If you mark IN and OUT points, it will only export the area between the IN and OUT points. No IN and OUT and it does it all.
Can you explain yourself better here?
[Kurt Wiley] “By comparison, QT PRO seems to care less about mixing formats, though the overall size seems to scale up to accomidate the largest clip. Granted, this sort of clip is a whacko mess, but suggests QT PRO is much less tempermental about this sort of thing”
QUicktime Pro is also NOT a non linear editor. IF all you need to do is join a bunch of clips together, then just do that in QT pro.
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Kurt. I am having the same problems as you are. Could you post how you fixed your problems ?I try all I can and FCP does not render out anything less than a full render.
FCP 7
Cineform files in timeline
CF as render codecQt reference is a small file containing links
A full render is self-contained video file.
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