[Matthew Marchesi]

Hi Ian,

Basically, I exported to .mov and then used MPEG Streamclip to convert. Worked fine for me. I also had the option of using Compressor, which I hadn’t thought of at the time. You might want to give Compressor a shot.

Hope this helps, I’m definitely not one of the smartest folks around here, and if it doesn’t, you may need to hit one of the geniuses up. 🙂 Good luck.

~Matt

[Matthew Marchesi]

Compressor! Doh! Why didn’t I think of that? God I feel stoopid right now.

Mpeg Streamclip worked perfectly though, it even cut about 175 MB off of the MP4 file. I can deal with a 15 minute video at 102 MB. The clarity suffered only a tiny bit. Much better than before when it was so blurry I couldn’t make anything out.

Thanks a million Shane! Problem solved!

~Matt

[Matthew Marchesi]

[Shane Ross] “if you can export a good looking MOV file, just open that in MPEG STREAMCLIP, and save it as an MP4. All that does is change the container…resolution should remain the same.”

Thanks for the response Shane. Will this process cut shrink the file size at all? Is there a way to do afterwards? I will really need to shrink the file size down for these videos.

I’ll give that a go in the mean time.

Thanks much for your response. I really appreciate your time.

~Matt

[Matthew Marchesi]

This:

“Just unplug the unit from the firewire and then change the settings and then pug it back in again”

and the OPPOSITE of this:

“while you’re in the menu make sure that HDV downconverting is also OFF”

made it work for me. I needed to turn HDV downconverting ON.

I’m using FCP7 on Lion, no updates to Lion or FCP.

[Matthew Marchesi]

So I had the same problem of the greyed out Submit button. I am using Lion 10.7.2 and I have not installed any of the updates for FCS. Compressor Repair helped get this to work for me.

Thanks for the help offered in this thread. I hope the OP finally got his working…

~M

[Matthew Marchesi]

I’m using FCP 7 on Lion (without the support updates) and I’ve been getting the same error message too.

I’m not using stills of any kind and I only had one sequence in the project.

The one comment that was helpful was the comment was Chee-Han Wong’s comment about FCP not liking H.264 format. All of my screenshot video’s are in that format.

However, I do not think that was the entire problem, and I think some of it is related to the render files, which I’ve been having a lot of problems with anyway.

My fix was:

– I deleted the render files
– I copied everything in the timeline over to a new sequence
– I started adding more videos to the timeline
– I have rendered the new videos
– I have not rendered all the previous edits

Everything seems to be working alright now. I will continue to edit until I’m finished (or run out of memory again). I’ll post back with any more problems.

~Matt