MyY FINAL CUT VIDEO ITS TAKING TOO LONG TO EXPORT! 40 HOURS??!!

[Ryan Holmes]

What format are you exporting the video to? ProRes, h.264, etc?

What are the specs of your MacBook Pro? How old is it?

Of what you’ve said, USB is a slow connection for video work. If your external hard drive takes a Firewire cable that may shave off some time, depending on how you answer the above questions.

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[Jose Rico]

Hello,
Im not sure i have ti cancel the export to be able to see that…

What is the best way to export that type of video, its for a wedding video, its 1:30 hrs long any recomendation?

[Jose Rico]

File >> Export to >Using Quick time convertion
Compretion Type : H.264
Frame Rate: 29
Key Frame rate :24
encoding mode :multi-pass
Dimensions: 1280×720 HD

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Final Cut: Pro 7

Mac OS X
Processor 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 4 gb

[Ryan Holmes]

Unfortunately, I don’t think 40 hours is too far off as an estimate.

h.264 is a great codec for web distribution. However, it’s very processor intensive to encode. So it will demand a lot of system resources, particularly your CPU. Based on your computer specs I’m guessing your MacBook Pro is about 3-4 years old (maybe older?), which means it’ll be slow encoding to h.264.

I’m not sure if you’re exporting a 1280×720 h.264 or if you’re resizing it (i.e. smaller or bigger), but that would add time as well. Multi-pass encoding means that the encoding engine will take look over your footage more than once (2 or 3 times) in order to most efficiently compress the data. This usually results in a smaller file size but at the expense of time.

Are you exporting from FCP….as in “Send To Compressor…” If so that could add some time. I usually export out a full quality, self-contained Quicktime .mov and then bring that stand-alone file into Compressor.

Add to this the fact that you’re going out to a USB drive which is another bottleneck…given your specs, your hard drive, your encoding format, etc. I’d say 40 hours may be about right…

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[Andrew Rendell]

I always export onto the desktop in “same as sequence” settings and then use Compressor to transcode to the format that I want to deliver (or MPEGStreamclip if I want a fast conversion and am willing to drop the quality a little). I find it’s much quicker doing it that way than transcoding on an export from FCP.

[Rafael Amador]

[Jose Rico] “Everything is on my External HD and its using an usb port connection.”
Your first problem is your HD.
USB is not good even for editing DV; much less for Prores.
Even with the faster computer, that will slow down your render.
You need at least FW800.
rafael

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[Harrison Gruber]

USB 3.0 is 5Gbps/sec.

FW800 is 800Mbps.

VERY different technologies.

USB 3.0 is many many many times faster than FW800.

[Ryan Holmes]

[Harrison Gruber] “USB 3.0 is many many many times faster than FW800.
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I didn’t see his computer specs anywhere in the post. However, given that his export is taking quite a while moving to h.264 I made the assumption that he was also using USB 2.0, which in comparison to FW800 would be a bottleneck. If he was on a newer MacBook Pro his encode to h.264 would probably be a good bit shorter. My guess is that he is running a 3-5 year old MBP…probably of the Intel Core Duo or Core 2 Duo variety.

But I probably shouldn’t assume….I know what that nets me!

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