Comments on: Final Cut: Quicktime Movie vs. Quicktime Conversion Export

By: kim

kim — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:45:56 +0000

Can anyone assist me? I have Final Cut Studio 2 with the apps to go along with it (Motions, Compressor, etc.). I was having problems with my Compressor where I was taking my footage from Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 and exporting to Compressor 3.0.5, choosing my settings and submitting the batch for exporting but it would only produce the audio and not the video. Then I would go back into Compressor, remove the audio setting so that it would complete the video and it would do the video but remove the audio saved settings. Very weird. It had never done that before so I was perplexed. I got basic troubleshooting instructions from Apple on removing cache files and other files to see if that would resolve the issue and it didn’t, so I decided to use their instructions and uninstall Compressor and Final Cut (because Apple said it could be one of the apps giving me problems). Well I put uninstalled everything and used my Final Cut Studio 2 CD to reinstall and couldn’t just choose Compressor or Final Cut to install but had to install EVERYTHING over again (about 2 hours worth of app install time). Needless to say, after all of that time, now I can’t even get Compressor to launch. It opens, where I can see the menu options, but it doesn’t do anything beyond that. When I go to Final Cut Pro and export my file to Compressor, compressor doesn’t recognize the file and just sits there not budging.

What could be wrong with Compressor? How do I get Compressor working? I did the software updates after the reinstall of FCS2 but still nothing. Do I need to uninstall every app off my PC (Imac G5) and start over by reinstalling the apps? If so, how do I do that because I can’t find those instructions on Apple’s website.

Thank you for any help you can provide me.
Kim

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:09:47 +0000

Hello:
I’m very new to FCP so please forgive my inexperience. I exported one sequence (copy) of my project to a Quicktime movie and it worked beautifully as a wide format. I went to export a second sequence (the original) the same way and it comes out with the visual distorted (squished) into a standard format. I really can’t see that anything is different between the two sequences. Why is it doing this?

By: Jules P

Jules P — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:39:01 +0000

Hi there,

Been through all sorts of forums trying to figure out why I’m getting General Error (49) when i do the QT export. I’ve done it successfully on a few different sequences already and there’s one that keeps on getting stuck at around 60% of the way through.So I even tried putting new clips (in case they were corrupt)in to the timeline around the 60% area. No Luck. I’ve exported also using “Quicktime Conversion” but the images all looked interlaced (it’s DV format). I’m wanting to ultimately put it DVD to showcase my work. So the best quality is ideal.
Any thoughts?
J

By: Erik L

Erik L — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:16:45 +0000

Help!

I am new user of Final Cut pro..
I have been working on my short film in final cut pro and now I need to get it into a quicktime version so my friend can work on it on his PC (fixing the colours and do the animated titel.)

Should I use quicktime (mov) or quicktime converter?
How do I do it?
I tried both, but when i used quicktime I got one black stripes on each side(like a frame) Do I need to change the size on each klip/cut in the sequence?

When I used the converter the size was correct, but it did not look good.. The film was to wide(suddenly everyone in my film had gained som weight..)

I want the size to be 1280×720 16:9 and HD quality, he said if I choose animation it would work well for the program he works in.

Thankful for all good advices!
**Erik L**

By: Laila

Laila — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:51:00 +0000

Is it normal that, when I convert my 14 min sequence in FC to a QTime in an avi format, that it takes more than 50 min? (The size is an 1920 X 1080 HD (16:9).

By: Amund

Amund — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:28:48 +0000

Hei. I want to export my project which is app. 30 min long. When I export it to Quick Time and play it, it is only 3.01 minutes and stops there. Absurd. What do you think?

By: Jamm

Jamm — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:41:52 +0000

Hey. This website is so damn useful. You are very helpful too!

I was working on a clip at 1440 X 1080 on FCP. When I export it to HDV1080i50 using Quicktime Conversion, I get rather squarish and elongated video. However, when I exported it using Quicktime Movie, the movie looks really good and I checked the dimensions of that video: 1920 X 1880. I don’t know why it’s longer but it’s definitely worth the long wait!

But I suggest if you want an even smaller size, go export it using Quicktime Movie to get that nice look as you see while editing in FCP. When you’re done, open the clip on Quicktime and then export from there to HDV1080i50. There isn’t much degradation in terms of quality!

Try it!

By: 4MIN

4MIN — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:17:55 +0000

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By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:37:06 +0000

hi
just created a very rough copy of some old gulf war footage i took on a vhsc camcorder. I captured it into FCP using my sony trv digital camcorder. Fast edit carried out and the final movie is 13 minutes long. I created a QT movie to preview and planned to put it on youtube for the rest of the guys to see. Only when i looked at the file size of the movie it was 19GB in size for 13 mins of movie. How can this be, was planning to use compressor to reduce but the starting point seems way too high? what do you think caused that? Any advice would be gratefully received

By: jisrock

jisrock — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:20:48 +0000

i am wanting to export an overlay revealer using a revealer i created with final cut express 4 to a tricaster studio. But everytime i try it it keeps the black background. i contacted the tricaster help and he gave me this link for help since he said he had no experience with final cut express. thanks

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:57:17 +0000

Yeah, about these export options.
I did both for a movie my friend and I created, it’s roughly about 3:06.
Both worked, but here’s the big issues. I ended up only getting the audio, and none of the video. All I get is audio when I play it in Quicktime and Winamp on my PC.
I don’t understand whats the issue with it. I hope there’s some sort of help for this.

Thanks.

By: Adam Ross

Adam Ross — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:38:05 +0000

I made a movie on FCE. I exported using Quicktime, not QT conversion. The a1 channel, which I assume is left, barely has any audio to it. The a2 channel, assuming right, basically is the only audio. I put a soundbyte in of a shotgun, then my LiveType file, with a song imported in.

I took the movie and put it on my flash drive and took it to another computer. This computer is a PC. On this computer, we run SundayPlus, which is a church software program that runs all the media and .ppt files and such from one place.

The movie I made will not play the audio at all; only the shotgun sound and the song imported in, but not the audio from the video imported in. The video that was imported was from a DVD that was on a camcorder originally.

So…there’s no sound on the movie until the end that is the shotgun and song. Any idea why that it would be doing that? Any suggestions? I appreciate it.

Thanks!

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:38:24 +0000

hello,

when im exporting a video (i usually export as a quicktime conversion) and play it back, i get som fuzzy lines during any kind of motion. When the image is still, it’s fine, but when the camera moves, the picture gets those lines. how can i fix it? i exported as 768×576 SD.

Thanks for your help. I really appreciate it!

By: Will

Will — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:56:00 +0000

All sorted thanks anyway

By: Will

Will — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:15:23 +0000

Just realized you’re in the states. I’m in the UK using Pal.

thanks