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Quicktime export question
I’m having trouble exporting a 30 minute long seminar to quicktime from FCP 4. I’m trying to import it to iDVD for a client. I’ve never had this problem before. Here are the details.
I’ve deleted all the necessary preference files and preformed a disk utility scan 3 times. Some of the permissions seem to always pop back up. They don’t seem to be FCP related though.
In the project, there is one video track with .tif graphic files insert when needed. There are 2 spots where there are a dropped frame or two. I’m going to try to edit those out, but (of course) they are in crucial spots. They do play back in FCP with only a barely noticable stutter.
There are 6 tracks of audio. They follow as 1 and 2-speaker, 3 and 4-background music, and 5 and 6- another piece of background music.
I’ve selected all tracks, rendered, and then nested it. The funny thing was-it didn’t need to be rendered. Once it was nested, I exported it out as a QT.
It first stawled out around the 24% mark…then (after all the prefences/premissions check) at 97%. This is approximately where both the dropped frames points are located in the project. Is it simple the dropped frames??
Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!
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2 Replies
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There is a function in FCP that is often overlooked… and it can help with many problems!
You should “Mixdown” the Audio for playback before you dub out of FCP, or during the edit, if you have audio/video stuttering, drop-outs or freezes.
NOTE: Mixdown has even been demonstrated to help with slipping, skipping problems (or “missing” audio clips) for files being EXPORTED as QT (or similar) files out of FCP.
First, SELECT ALL of your audio tracks (highlight them) on the timeline, then:
Sequence Menu > Render Only > Mixdown.
You should see a dialog box telling you its rendering.
It might seem to make little sense that “Mixing down” even simple audio tracks will “fix” complex video “freezes” or random audio dropouts to tape or export, but it CAN.
NOTE: It does not matter of you only have one audio track, if there are random freezes during output, you should try the Mixdown.
I think that this is one of the functions that is SUPPOSED to take place automatically during pre-processing of “Edit to… Master to… Print to…” but sometimes it may just not quite perform this completely.
I flat-out NEVER use any of these playback “features” anyway. I always just hit “record” on the deck and PLAY the timeline out to tape. -
Cool! I’ll give it a go. Thanks.
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