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  • Save Time When Exporting H.264 Clips Out of Final Cut Pro

    Posted by Mason Pelt on September 13, 2010 at 5:22 pm

    I know many of the people who populate this forum are producing content for the web and I’f your using final cut pro. that means sitting and waiting for final cut to exporte in H.264. We all know is butt slow about exporting H.264.

    This is a tutorial I made that shows how a way to speed up rendering H.264 videos out of final cut pro by using MPEG Streamclip

    The reason this message is short, cryptic and misspelled is because I’m dyslectic.
    Mason Pelt
    https://meancreativity.com

    Jason Brown replied 15 years, 11 months ago 9 Members · 11 Replies
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  • Jason Brown

    September 13, 2010 at 6:23 pm

    Why wouldn’t you use Send to Compressor…no export time…and it does it in the background with FCP7.

    -Jason

  • Mason Pelt

    September 13, 2010 at 6:25 pm

    I’ve done that. I’t dosen’t seem to as fast.

    The reason this message is short, cryptic and misspelled is because I’m dyslectic.
    Mason Pelt
    https://meancreativity.com

  • Chris Tompkins

    September 13, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    Invest in good compression software – you’ll never regret it.

    Episode.

    Chris Tompkins
    Video Atlanta

  • Mark Suszko

    September 13, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    This says its for Final Cut Express; will it work in FCS?

  • Mason Pelt

    September 13, 2010 at 8:02 pm

    I said final cut express on the website as an SEO thing. I used final cut pro 7 in the video.

    The reason this message is short, cryptic and misspelled is because I’m dyslectic.
    Mason Pelt
    https://meancreativity.com

  • Erik Naso

    September 13, 2010 at 8:30 pm

    But how does it look? Not sure about the intermediate codec for quality. If you make a reference video and use your cores in compressor I think the end result will be cleaner and still pretty fast.

    https://www.mediaartproductions.com

  • Michael Gissing

    September 14, 2010 at 12:26 am

    If you need speed, then get an H264 accelerator like Elgato or Matrox (which works with Compressor I believe).

  • Zane Barker

    September 14, 2010 at 6:39 am

    Couple of issues I see.

    First off in your video you often say rendering when you really mean exporting or compressing they are not the same thing. For example you say render for the web. One does not render for the web you compress for the web.

    Second, Just simply export using current time line settings instead of exporting AIC. For you AIC may be the best option because you may be editing in AIC already. If you are not editing AIC exporting as AIC would add an additional level of compression to your final video.

    Third, Compressor will be much faster if you set up a virtual cluster, and a virtual cluster would definitely bead the speed of streamclip. Also using a device like the Turbo.264 from Elgato would also be much faster then using streemclip.

    **Hindsight is always 1080p**

  • Andy Mees

    September 14, 2010 at 7:41 am

    Matrox Compress HD / MAX chipset … fastest compression, best quality, works with Compressor, Episode and more.

  • Rafael Amador

    September 14, 2010 at 10:44 am

    i agree with no “sending to Compressor”.
    A “Multi-pass” for H264 means three passes (3). That means three times rendering the whole sequence (Compressor doesn’t uses the FC renders). However the advantage of “Send to Compressor” is that you send a full Uncompress 444 movie, not a poor AIC.
    Normally I use MPGStreamclip although, IMHO the best compressor is HandBrake. The problem is that do not accepts Prores.
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

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