[Alexander Kallas]

Thanks Tom,
That’s the best and only logical explanation.

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

…so why is it an option?

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[Dennis Couzin] “When I use the “Export QuickTime Movie” command, I first change my sequence settings to an uncompressed codec. Then the exported QuickTime file has not seen recompression, or just a tad. The original question remains: is feeding that QuickTime file to Compressor less good than exporting straight from the FCP timeline to Compressor?
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Your method still involves a codec change before going to Compressor, the later workflow is preferable if you can tie up FCP for the time required.

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

How are you setting the outpoint?

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[Dennis Couzin] “but I don’t see how the Nattress article you cite supports the point.”

Look at the diagram flow chart. FCP sends out uncompressed files to Compressor for one-time only transcoding to the required output.

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

Ther is a definate advantage in exporting from FCP via Compressor.
Read this:-
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/beyond_dv_nattress.html

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[Michael Sheehan] “Naturally we don’t want the FCP sequence we’ll be using going forward to reference those clips embedded in the iMovie file, nor do we want the iMovie-renamed clip names in our projects (which would cause hell when we have to make split-track outputs and so on), so the editor basically rebuilds a sequence exactly like the iMovie sequence using the local audio media and moves on from there.
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??? Your workflow is shaky to say the least. For your purpose reference movies are totally useless.
What is the codec and source of the origional media, audio and video? iMovie video is digitized as DV stream Codec, but that is not what the camera captured. For best quality wrt the source, you need the origional media in it’s origional codec.
Unless you can get this you are hosed quality-wise. Get the boss to send it to you, after he has played with iMovie.
Don’t use a reference movie, get/make a self-contained QT movie from the origional source, it will probably be in the wrong codec, but import and render it out in a FCP sequence set to the output required. The quality may be awful, but use this as a vdeo and audio rough copy. Then import the origional media, add in a track under the roughie and edit, copying the theme of the track above.

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

from your post:-
“Now what’s supposed to happen is an editor opens the iMovie project in FCP and basically rebuilds this cut using our in-house audio, properly referenced on our SAN. In other words the iMovie projects are little more than a really dumbed-down EDL of sorts for these audio sequences,”
I presume you/other editors HAVE FCP ( else why your above statement), your boss doesn’t have it, so use the media in FCP, hence my question re the origionals.

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

Do you or the “boss” have the original source clips?
Why not make a self-contained QT movie in the required codec for FCP, and work with that.

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Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[chadwick Chennault] ”
……… I was forced to reinstall Final Cut because it was crashing 20 times a day. However, now Final Cut will not update to 6.05. It’s stuck at 6.0.

Does FCP 6.0 run without crashing?

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Alexander