Using Compressor w/o FCP

[Steve Eisen]

Do not use Export using Compressor. Export a self-contained or reference Movie from FCP. Drag that file into Compressor and chose your setting. Hit submit. Continue working in FCP while the file compresses.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Michael Volkening]

Sure. Output a quicktime movie (use current settings so you don’t compress it twice) and send that to Compressor. Then, it’s back to work in FCP. I do it all the time.

Mikey

[Jake Wheeler]

thanks guys

very helpful

jake

[Ben Scott]

I find this export recommended using QT method to be a lot faster when using compressor.

thought it good to chip in that it is good to also always set the destination to a different hard drive than where your capture scratch has been set. You are using a QT reference movie when you untick self contained. this should speed up the render times by over 2 times as you are reading from one drive and writing to the other at the same time, instead of reading and writing at the same time if on the same drive.

also if you use reference movies make sure you are doing this at the end e.g. don’t export out as a reference movie and then go back into the sequence you were working on only to then reedit and cause the reference movie to no longer work whilst encoding.

maybe just remember if returning to final cut to carry out revisions on the sequence it may be a good idea to create a duplicate sequence to work up instead.

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[Nick Ryan]

Uh… I’m thinking that once you’ve exported your reference file, it is then independent of whatever sequence stuff you may have going on. It has all the information from the sequence the way it was when you exported it, and it doesn’t reference the sequence – it references the original media, conforming it to the specifications of the sequence you output from. So you could change/delete/lose your original sequence and your reference file would still work just fine. I will admit, you’ve put a seed of doubt in my mind, but I’m pretty sure this is the way it works.

Nick

[Ben Scott]

it does work the way your suggesting

just sometimes you may need to rerender effects in the sequence and then that will really mess with the reference movie. say you did an insert edit and footage had titles over the top, then you need to rerender and the reference movie wont work any more and comes up with cannot find original media.

or at least its something to watch out for.

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