How can I get Final Cut Express to export using Compressor ?

[Tom Wolsky]

Compressor does not come with FCE. It now only comes with Final Cut Studio. If you have an older version of Compressor that came with DVD Studio Pro when it was a standalone application, which it no longer is, you might want to run some tests to verify that your version of Compressor will work with the OS and QT version you’re using. You can export from FCE as a QuickTime Movie, either self-contained or reference, and take that to Compressor for encoding.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”

[Joe Garvin]

Thanks Tom for the info
In FCE 2.0 I always had the option to “export using compressor”
and it worked very well with DVDSP 3.0 ( I think that is where the program came from. ) But FCE 4.0 only allows me to export using Quicktime Conversion.

Which leads to another question
IF I export as a QT movie and then compress to mpeg2….Would that not compress the DV file TWICE ? lowering the quality

IF I export using the QT conversion is that converting directly from the DV video file…and is the quality similiar to what I was getting from Compressor ?

One more question….
What is the best mpeg2 converter that I can add to FCE 4.0 as an export option ?

Thanks again everybody
Joe

[Tom Wolsky]

QuickTime Movie export is a file copy function, copies the files, video and render files into a QuickTime file. There is no recompression.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP6,” “Basic Training for FCS2” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 3.5 HD Editing Workshop”