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Quicktime export is different than what’s in the timeline
I’m editing a demo reel for an actor friend. One of the scenes is from a television show, but the scene she’s in is not with any of the shows more recognizable stars, so I wanted to put a little bit of the title sequence/music in front of it to make sure people knew what show it was. So I put about 3 seconds worth of it in. It looks great in the sequence, in Final Cut, but when I do an export to quicktime (broadband medium) that title sequence is slightly askew… instead of the 3 second chunk that’s clearly in the timeline, it’s a 3-second chunk about 10 seconds prior to what is in the sequence. Everything else in the sequence is fine. This is driving me insane. In all the years I’ve been using Final Cut, I’ve never had anything like this happen. Shouldn’t Quicktime export be exporting EXACTLY what I’m seeing in the timeline?
The title sequence was ripped from a (non-copy protected) DVD-R of the show. The scene from the show was not ripped from the same DVD, it was taken from an exisiting demo reel, so it looks fine. It’s just the few seconds of the title sequence that got threw off.
Oh, I just upgraded to Studio 2, if that makes a difference.
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not sure whats going on, but try this…
export the 3 second chunk that you want to use out to a quicktime (not quicktime conversion), then bring it back into your project and use that in your sequence. This should “fool” final cut into exporting properly.
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another trick that *might* work (this is a real Wild Ass Guess)
give the ripped clip a reel#
(i’m assuming it doenst have one)then do the export again.
see how you go,
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i’m also having a similar issue. things look and play fine from the timeline but when I export as a QT Conversion there’s a problem…the video is out of sync by about 2 seconds. BUT, when I make a self-contained QT from the timeline, it exports fine.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but no go. The exported Quicktime resulted in the same offset 3 seconds that exporting with Quicktime Conversion produced.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Unforunately, it produced the same results even with a reel number.
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Thanks Steve! We were having the same problem with a 2 minute teaser trailer for a feature I just produced. Exporting as a self contained QT fixed the timing issue (HOORAY!) but now the picture quality of the resulting QT file is terrible… the images have scratchy lines through them. When I had been exporting with QT Conversion, the image quality was excellent (looked like the 24p HD we had shot in) but I had that terrible timing issue. Any ideas on how to bring the image quality back up without losing the proper timing?
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theoretically that QT reference file should visually the same, so I have no clue. the bigger issue is why is there this sync issue we’re having? to be continued…
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