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Problem Exporting QT movie
I’m finishing up a feature length documentary and getting ready for the mix. The mix facility wants an OMF of the audio and a QT file of the video with a TC window. We decided I should send a short sample of the film to check on audio track preparation. For the OMF there was no problem, but when I tried to make export a QT movie, FCP froze.
To create the TC window version of the sample (the first 6 1/2 minutes of the film), I created a timeline with just the first 6 1/2 minutes, nested it, and then added the time code reader filter to the sequence. When I then did File>Export> QT Movie, it started to process the ftg, but stopped at 33% and after a while began the spinning beachball. I had to force quite FCP.
I wondered if the TC filter or the nesting was causing problems, so tried again with just the strait clips from the first 6 1/2 minutes. This time it made it to 68% before freezing. I tried several more times, and it froze at 13%, and 45%. I wondered if a short nested sequence within the ftg was a problem, so unnested that – still no go.. I then wondered if there could possibly be some corrupt ftg somewhere (tho no problem at all editing the ftg), so divided the 6 1/2 minutes into shorter sections. Each section alone exported fine (and combined included all the clips from the first 6 1/2 min). I then tried a different section from the film, about 5 minutes long, and it exported fine as well. But when I went back to export the first 6 1/2 minutes, FCP froze once again (this time at 71% done).
Any idea what’s happening? Is the size of the file a problem (the 5 min section that exported ok was just over 1 GB)? Any suggestions of what to do?
Project is all DV ftg, (plus a few stills from Photoshop), stored on G-Raid FW 800 harddrives. FCP 6.0.3 on 8 Core Mac Pro with 8 GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.5.8, QT 7.6
Thanks for any help.
Tom Valens
Tamalpais Productions
Forest Knolls, CA -
1 Reply
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how about trying to export a DIFFERENT 6.5 minutes?
then you’ll know if it;s a file-size issue,
or a corrupt clip (maybe one of your stills??)are all the stills RGB?
if they are CMYK there can be problems.do you have a file export limit set in your System Prefs (Shift Q to open)?
FWIW i tend to render all in my timeline (and i’m generally rendering as i go, so this doesn’t take much time),
export (maybe as a reference movie), re-import and lay a TC reader on top of that.saves having to re-render any time-consuinhg effects just for the burn-in.
nick
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