[James Young]

thanks for the software suggestions guys, and i really appreciate all of the advice.

for now, the 35 nests/1 export seems to be fastest, but traffic looks like it would be a permanent solution to what is looking to become a permanent problem. thanks for the heads up.

now, to convince my boss to drop the $300…

[James Young]

kevin, that’s what i initially tried, but there didn’t seem to be a way to retain the background that i had placed behind my green-screen footage when dumping my clips into the new bin, and so that when i exported, all i got was the matte on a black background. if there’s a way to associate the clip with the background, let me know.

[James Young]

thanks for all of the help, guys.

i was originally just option-c nesting each clip+background into a new sequence and batch exporting, and while the sequence setup time is a little annoying, i’d rather do that and then walk away for 30 minutes and do something else while it exports than mark, export, mark, export, etc. especially because its looking like i might have a few more of these to do, some upwards of 50 clips. blah.

its a shame FCP can’t simultaneously nest multiple clips into multiple sequences, so i’d only have to execute the command once.

good to confirm that i’m doing this as best as i can. helps with the monotony of the task a little.

thanks so much again for taking some time to help, you guys are great.

[James Young]

i’m still quite the FCP newbie, so correct me if i’m wrong here, but wouldn’t setting an in and out for each clip require that i do 35 separate exports? or is there a way to do multiple in/out selections and then run one mass export?

[James Young]

hi russ, thanks for the reply.

i’m working with 720×480 DV footage, 30FPS.

the issue is that i have high resolution graphic animations inside the movie that will eventually be displayed on computer monitors, and the interlacing is very visually prominent on them unless i export in a progressive format, in which case they look great. the problem is that i can’t seem to preserve my original aspect ratio while exporting in progressive.