Hi all! I’m an editor and frequenter of this page, first time posting here!

I’m a video editor for a company that offers some pretty niche and specific services, so much so that stock footage isn’t always accurate or helpful when putting together a short promo — my team was talking about finding an AI service that can generate stock… Read more

I understand the math, and yes lowering the data rate does lower the file size, but for some reason this particular video is still like three times as large as it was before. I can’t lower it anymore and it’s still huge. It is NOT encoded in ProRes, is there something obvious that I’m missing?

For context I normally do a lot of SFX/FX in my wo… Read more

I’ll check out media info, thanks for the suggestion!

However it is NOT encoded as ProRes, that I’m sure of, which is part of the reason I was so confused.

Hi all!

I’m running into a problem on Final Cut Pro — I was asked to take a single MP4 video, that is 758.5 MB, and cut out the first four minutes. That’s all, no transitions, no edits, no color corrections, nothing.

And then I got to export the (now shorter) MP4, and the file is now 5.54 Gigs?

Why is FCP expanding my videos like this?… Read more