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Self Contained Movie
Hey guys – was wondering, does anyone know how to check and see if a movie is self contained in QuickTime? Just realized an editor exported a TON of files that weren’t self contained. Want to make sure stuff in the past that were exported were self contained but am not sure how to check it. Very hard to do by removing all the files associated with it as I’m not 100% sure where they all exist (I have tons of backups laying around, so it’d be a process to check that out on it’s own). Let me know if you have any suggestions!
Thanks!
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Move all the files to a different drive and try opening them on another computer with that drive. If they open, you’re all good.
File size is another way.
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A self contained .mov will be substansially less in file size. Un-self contained files are very much like a project file in the way it works and especially file size if it is only several mb it most likely is not self contained. Moving the files are a way but if you double click the file and it opens a sequeb e where you can see layers and cuts it’s a non self contained. Also you could right click the file and bring up the drop down menu and I belive that the third option is “reveal in finder” and that will reveal where the origin of your files are.
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