[Charles House]

AIFF. I believe I said that.

[Charles House]

Allow me to rephrase that.

I have audio connected to video.

I exported that audio to other software to clean it up.

I re-imported it into Final Cut cleaned up and lined it up. So now, there are two copies of the same audio, one the original attached the the video, one the cleaned up version.

I turn the original all the way down to -infinite dB. It’s there as a guide track only, in case I later learn something isn’t clean enough or otherwise need the original audio.

Is it going to take up space in the export, despite it being turned down completely, because it’s still there?

[Charles House]

That’s the issue, I am absolutely seeing a difference between the way he exported and the way I exported, going to export with quicktime, current settings (presumably meaning the current camera settings?), and going that way.

[Charles House]

Yes, I understand that, thank you. However, the quality of his export (same file type, mind you, an .MOV) is clearly better quality, which leads me to believe the method with which I’ve been exporting ISN’T full quality, and IS compressed. But you’re telling me it IS full quality, however he is somehow getting a better quality export?

He’s using Motion/After Effects, both for Mac, and I’m using Final Cut.