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problem exporting QT reference movie
This is a new one more me. I often export a QT reference movie as a rough draft and use QT to compress and share with clients. Recently, it’s FCP6 is not allowing me to export as a reference movie, even if “make self-contained” is unchecked. The file sizes are obviously quite a bit larger and it just really starting to annoy me. I’ve checked and unchecked the box, but with no changes. does this make sense to anyone?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Andy
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5 Replies
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Yes, if your timeline is not fully rendered before you export, FCP will bake the effects into the reference movie making it larger than if it was just simply pointing to the render files.
Jeremy
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Jeremy – thanks for taking the time to respond. I do understand that the file sizes would be larger if the timeline isn’t rendered; however, my file sizes are equal to a self-contained movie even when the timeline has been rendered. Are there any preferences that deal with this issue?
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4 x 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 with 7 GB RAM
1.25 GHz Powerbook G4
FCS2, AE7
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yes, there are. My sneaking suspicion tell me that you don’t have full rt effects rendered.
GO to Sequence > Render All and the Sequence > Render selection menus and make sure all the options are checked under there, including the ‘full’ option. Once those are checked hit command-r to render all.
once it’s done rendering, try exporting again.
Jeremy
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Jeremy –
Your sneaking suspicion proved correct. I hadn’t yet run into that. Thanks for your help!
Andy
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4 x 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 with 7 GB RAM
1.25 GHz Powerbook G4
FCS2, AE7
And I love my work! -
No worries. Glad you are up and running. If you ever trash your preferences, FCP will default to those options being off, so be sure to reset them after a pref trash.
Jeremy
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