[Brian Cooney]

thanks tom. it’s the sequence in blue.

[Brian Cooney]

well.. the sequence “in blue” is merely conforming to the settings of the media I have brought in. in this case.. what would you do? I’m basically trying to export the 1440×1080 .mov with H.264 compression to get eh 7GB file smaller for a youtube upload. But the export keeps displaying as 4:3..

[Brian Cooney]

thanks. here’s 2 screen shots of the sequence settings and the attempted export settings.

[Brian Cooney]

well I tried to just export from the timeline to H264 from prores422HQ. But the file ended up being appended. So I exported with current settings and tried converting the exported file from with in final cut pro ..seemed to be as easy as using compressor stepwise. But yeah. I could have done it with compressor. I’ll have to try that to see if the error keeps happening. My question was really asking why would the file be abbreviated on export from FCP. It was a 2:30 length file that for some reason on export was abbreviated to 2:10 . I repeated it several times to test. rebooted, etc…

[Brian Cooney]

if you export it as a quicktime movie with “current” settings and import it back into the same or a different timeline there will be no loss in quality.

[Brian Cooney]

sorry. 30secs short of 2.5min. I never changed the frame rate so that probably isn’t an issue. I exported the timeline in current format as a Quicktime Movie and imported the export into a new timeline to be converted to H264. I will use compressor to see if that helps. I wasn’t sure if this was a software issue or just something inherent in prores down-conversions… if anyone had seen that before.

[Brian Cooney]

hi. this link is no longer active to download the file you posted. any suggestions? thanks.

[Brian Cooney]

thanks everyone.. this is great.

[Brian Cooney]

thanks.

[Brian Cooney]

thanks