Reference Movie

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Allyn,
You sure FC exported a Self-contained Movie having unchecked “Make Movie Self-Contained?
Really is the first time I heard so.
When you export Reference movies, the sequence is rendered, and the media of that clip are the FC rendered files.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Allynn Wilkinson]

Oh, I’m sure.

I wasn’t so I tried it about a half a dozen times!

Tom is right on the money. If Render –> Full is not checked (and it seems to be not checked by default) and anything has to render over the whole video (say, an itty bitty bug) then – BAM! You get a full sized, flattened video.

Try this and you’ll see… Take a five minute piece and put a little bug in the corner. Be sure Render –> Full is unchecked. Export to a non-self-contained QT Ref and see what you get. It should be a self-contained file as big as if you flattened it.

Now I never noticed this behavior before either. So either this is a new “feature” (post FCP 5). Or I never had anything that had to be rendered out “full” before. The second choice is quite likely since we just started adding a bug to our videos this year. I don’t think a simple fade up/down would be a problem.

Allynn