[Gayle Kakac]

You’re right, I didn’t understand that. I did figure it out after your last message based on what you had written. But thank you, that was very helpful!

[Gayle Kakac]

Ok thank you. I watched videos online that told me I had to publish the drop boxes prior to publishing the project. In FCP I just have a timeline and I can edit the text but can’t seem to drop videos into the sections where the drop boxes are supposed to be. It just makes an upper layer on the timeline and overlaps the main timeline. I’ll see if I can contact Jerry Hoffman, he used to help with the COW and is an old teacher of mine.

[Gayle Kakac]

Mark,
I’m having a similar problem with a project I need done today, of course. I’m using a template I purchased online and I couldn’t figure out how to open in in FCP X from Motion 5. I watched your video but unfortunately I didn’t publish the drop boxes before I published the whole project. I tried to save the project under a different name but the drop boxes were all published. I tried unpublishing them and redo it and then publishing the project. I tried deleting the Generator from the movies folder but no matter what I do I can’t seem to put clips in the drop box in FCP X.
Can you please help?
Thank you so much,
Gayle

[Gayle Kakac]

It’s a 2-3 minute clip that was 150 mb, so that’s just too huge. I tried many, a few of which were Webcast in Compressor for a 360?x240 or whatever. I tried the h264 our of compressor with its normal settings, but both of those ended up 4×3.
I tried QT and QT conversion, under low, med and high quality and square pixels, with many different size outputs including…

H264 in 854×480 (read this post but wasn’t sure what it was suggested in, FC QT, QT conversion or Compressor, needed a few more details.
FCP movie 640×360
QT h264 with anamorphic box check to preserve letterbox
DV stream
QT Conversion, fit to letterbox
FCP 480×360
QT 637×358
I tried many other ways but threw the files away so I don’t remember.

I just want to make a small web file so I’m not particular, just low size and decent quality. My source is 1440x1080i.
Thanks for the help,
Gayle

[Gayle Kakac]

I am having the same problem. I may a video with a 1440x1080i camera and would like to put a small file on the web. I thought H264 was for high quality low size web movies but it was squished. I have tried 15 different settings. I’m using compressor, but have tried QT and QT conversion. The closest I have to a small file is 150MB, but that is still way to big. What settings should I use in the compressor or QT that can keep my dimensions but lower my file size.
Thanks for your advice!
GK