Quicktime Conversion times

About how long should I expect a quick time conversion on a 4m:30s project with no fx to take?
Macbook pro 2.0..
few hours sound about right?

No, a few hours doesn't sound right. But you have to tell us more about your machine specs including processor speed, how much memory (RAM), what size HD, how full is it, are you using an external HD, etc. What version of OSX, FCE and QT are installed.
... and did you do Sequence > Render All > Video and Sequence > Render Only > Mixdown before you tried to export ...
... and exactly how you are trying to do the QT conversion - for example, using QT conversion to produce H.264 video is going to take quite a bit longer than, say, exporting to MPEG4.

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    What settings should I use for a small to medium sized version of my movie for streaming on a website, but in the correct aspect ratio? I'd prefer a 16:9 Quicktime frame, or at least a 4:3 Quicktime frame with black bars.

    I too have been having some problems, same software. Export to iPod completely ignores the intended aspect ratio and is non-adjustable and squeezes the footage. It looks fine on the canvas but gets messed up on export. A 4:3 video that should be 640x480 ends up being 640x426, and a 16:9 video that should be 640x360 looks to be getting 640x426 as well.
    Currently, my work-around is to export to DV file, then export to iPod. Being a double encoding, it is quite wasteful in terms of time and processing power. Is there something else I can do?

  • Quicktime movie or Quicktime conversion?

    I shoot a wedding, everything is edited using final cut pro 7, I want avoid using compressor, Should I use Qucik time movie or should I use Quicktime conversion,,, I want to burn on a DVD, video was shoot at 1080p 3ofps... Please help

    Sorry, if you want to make a DVD, Compressor is your best bet.  I mean, you CAN skip it, and take the export directly into DVD Studio Pro to author the DVD...but Compressor will do a much better job. 
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    THATS ALL!!!
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  • Quicktime conversion in FCE 4

    Hi, am uploading 5 mins of film to a website, so from FCE 4 use quicktime conversion to compress and prepare. 2 queries if anyone has advice. I understand that Sorenson video 3 is a good codec to compress, and thought it was a standard option. It doesn't appear in the drop down list. Should it? And if not, is it the best anyway? Secondly I have prepared this file using MPEG-4 codec, medium quality slider, size 480 by 360, key fps 25, key frame rate 250, audio on mono - first time it looked good. Then I decided to tinker with the settings and have NEVER been able to achieve the same quality, even by going back to the original settings. It's unfocused, choppy (like there a key frame problem or quality slider needs moving), and the file is half the size. Can't work out what has changed, or whether it's the machine. Any ideas?

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  • Quicktime conversion taking too long

    this is my first time using final cut pro.
    for my class, i've created a video that is 7 minutes long using mpeg-4 clips with AAC audio. they're pretty small clips, 320X240, and fully rendered.
    we're supposed to present our projects next week to the class and so today i tried exporting the video i created using Quicktime conversion, but the status bar told me it would take 40 minutes to fully convert, and it only kept going up from there.
    what am i doing wrong? under movie settings window that pops up, i clicked on default settings, but changed compression to h.264 (cus everywhere i've read has said it's faster), changed the dimensions to match 320X340, and changed the audio format to AAC with a 128 bit rate.
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    Message was edited by: ec84
    Message was edited by: ec84

    let's put it this way. if you do File>Export>Quicktime you'll make a quicktime file with the same compressor as your sequence and it'll render faster. If you select File>Export>Quicktime Conversion you can make a quicktime file with a compression of your choice. (although the conversion process takes time). so you could compress it into a DVCPRO 50 quicktime, or an uncompressed quickime or H.264 quicktime. any of these settings will play in quicktime. These you can select through the options button in the converter window. we just suggest you use Export>Quicktime because it's faster easier and it's useless in your situation to convert.

  • Instead of Compressor went Quicktime conversion (still problems)

    Hi,
    Thanx for all the suggestions regarding compressor. I didn't even consider doing Quicktime conversion for my DVDSP2. I did this last night with a two pass knowing it would take along time. After about 9 hours with some 18 to go ( the piece is 78 minutes) I got two errors, one from my system and one from FCP. FCP simply said "Out of memory". And what I'm assuming was from my system with the yellow triangle and exclamation point. "Your startup disk is nearly full. You need to delete some files."
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    Your system drive functions as a virtual memory device. When the software you are running requires more memory that the physical ram you have, the hard disk pages in and out of RAM as needed. Since your spec doesn't mention ram below, I don't know how much you have, but once it filled, overflow started to fill up your system drive. If that becomes full, the system itself could shut down.
    You can think of the disk as a pantry and shelf space and RAM as the kitchen table and counter top. When you run out of space for food preparation, you can put stuff back in the pantry or put partially prepared recipes on shelves for later completion.
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  • Exporting a 4 minute clip using H.264 Quicktime Conversion but it's 2.5Gb?

    I have edited a 4 minute video using source footage at 1440x1080 50i. When I export using Quicktime Conversion and H.264 compressor it's taking forever and is coming out at a whopping 2.5Gb. I am sure I have used H.264 and Quicktime Conversion before and a file of this length and size should be about 15Mb. Also I remember it taking far less time.
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    Thanks in advance.

    Hi, welcome to FCP forum,
    Bit rate and frame size affect the file size, also best if you export sound as AAC not PCM.
    If you are aiming at creating a movie for the web then yes, the final result should be well under 80MB.
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    With regard to what is and isn't allowed on this forum take a look at the [Help & Terms of Use|http://discussions.apple.com/help.jspa] page.
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  • Can you make a custom quicktime conversion export be your default?

    When I go to export a quicktime conversion, I change the perameters to a custom setting for my need. Next time I go back into quicktime conversion, it goes back to the FCP defaults and I have to set my custom settings all over again.
    Is there a way to create a custom export in quicktime conversion AND MAKE THAT the new default for quicktime conversion?
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  • Audio Does not export with ideo in quicktime conversion

    I know i did something with a keyboard shortcut during the editing process, but i cant figure out what i did and how to change it back. What my issue is that when i try to export it to any format in quicktime (in quicktime conversion) the video is ok, but my audio does not export at all.
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    Rate: 48.0000 hHz
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    Hi(Bonjour)!
    Does the audio play when you run sequence?
    Did you toggle off the monitor icon at the left side of timeline for audio track?
    When export to quicktime conversion, select quicktime movie and click OPTION.
    From this point, you should see a checkbox for SOUND. Be sure to check it ON.
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  • Export w/ Quicktime Conversion - aduio destroyed

    I do a weekly video for posting on Vimeo.com. My normal method is to finish the editing, then export using Quicktime conversion. This is the easiest method to get the final movie file I need for use on Vimeo.
    About a month ago I created a new user account on my Mac. This is one that I have dedicated to video editing only as I'm working toward starting an event videography business. Anyway, the first of my weekly videos seemed to go OK, but now all of a sudden for the last two I can't get a usable video. The video portion of the movie is fine, but the audio is shot. It's all scratchy/staticy. When I go into FCP all plays fine there.
    I exported the video as a movie with no audio, along with the audio file that was imported to FCP to begin with, and dropped them on the hard drive, then went to my own user account. When I tried to open the project I got some error about it being for a newer version of FCP, so I just created a new project, and imported the video movie and the audio clip, and it exported as it always has, perfectly fine.
    So, I know something is out of place on the other user account, but what could it be?

    I did trash all 4 of the prefs and it still does this. I've never seen the prefs manager before, so I'll give that a shot.
    The audio that is used is an AIFF file. I get the file as an MP3 (that's how it's recorded live on the fly) and I use Sound Studio to save it as an AIFF. I have to do some trimming on it each week, and Sound studio is the easiest for what I need. In Final Cut it doesn't show that it needs rendering, and I generally don't, because when I do I've had major problems in the past that I still can't track down. What it will do is basically cut the audio into three sections, then reverse the first two. But just like this, when you go back into the project and play the time line all is as it should be.
    Also another bit of an update, I got rid of the audio file from my project and re-imported it, and it worked. For some reason it's fine the first time, but if I go to do it again, it will corrupt it, except it's only corrupt in the project, not the file itself. That's how I ran into this to begin with - I have an intro clip that I always put on, and I had accidentally dropped the decibel slider in the timeline for that clip. Otherwise it was fine. So I went back and brought the slider back to where it should be, and that's when the troubles happened. Ironically the audio problems were not in the part with that clip, only the main video part.

  • Is it possible to create a new preset for Export/Quicktime Conversion ?

    Hi,
    I was wondering if there is a way to make a new export preset for the Export with Quicktime Conversion, in FCE HD 3.5
    I am working on preparing a file for YouTube, and finding that some of the video effects render differently when exported, so I am having to render a couple of tests, but with YouTube's new 640x360 16:9 format, there is no easy way to do this other than checking the settings at each export. If one could make a new preset, it would be much easier. Any ideas?
    Thanks,
    t

    thankyousir.
    I think that Apple could add this, easily, as a feature to what, essentially, is QT Pro, and its embedded brother in FCE. Apple could also release a tiny update for QT including the new YouTube format... I haven't checked if iMovie knows about this new resolution, though it does upload directly to the tube itself.
    Thanks for your time,
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  • Export-- Quicktime Conversion totally corrupts??? (help!)

    Ok,
    in FCP 5.1.2 in an HDV timeline (1080i, Sony Z1U) my clips play fine.
    When I export to quicktime movie, my HDV movie works great and I can convert it to other formats, including DV/NTSC standard def.
    However, if I try to (directly from my HDV timeline) export to quicktime conversion (DV/NTSC codec, high quality, 720x405 standard definition 16:9) things get weird. some of my movie looks and sounds good, but seemingly random clips from my movie are out of sync. I examined it carefully and found that during the export, some clips actually shifted around timecode-wise. Hard to explain. Basically, within my exported SD movie, some clips from my timeline start a half second or so before they actually should.
    My movie is a documentary. When it cuts to someone for an interview, for example, playing the timeline shows them begin speaking when they should. Export to an SD version, and suddenly when it cuts to the speaker, they are looking at the camera, and then blink a few times, and then begin speaking, even though the audio is playing out of sync now with the video. Somehow FCP is reaching into my clips' handles-- footage that is not even visible in any track-- footage that is before where the timecode says the clip should start.
    examining the files directly in the finder reveals all to be well, as far as i can tell. but obviously there is corruption of some kind, either the codec or my drive. but I tried two different computers and it did the same thing.
    anybody understand my problem? make sense at all? my FCP problems never seem like problems others have had.

    I think you need to do that render/resolve thingie before exporting HDV...
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  • Exported Project via Quicktime Conversion-Some scenes "tear" at the top

    I have completed a 17 min project made up mostly of photo/stills. Some have motion added some dont---it doesn't seem to matter to my problem: when I exported the project using Quick Time Conversion I noticed as I checked it prior to using iDVD to burn it to DVD that during cross dissolves and some other transitions there was a "digitized tearing" or pixels slow in locking into place in the upper 1/5th or so of the screen. I had not noticed this problem in previewing the rendered project prior to export. Using FCE v3.5HD. Anyone seen this problem? Is there a problem with some of the transitions or was it something that occurred in the export? I tried to burn to DVD via iDVD so I could see if the problem was off the top of the screen, but apprently I did something wrong during use of iDVD. When the iMac ejected the DVD after burn, I tried playing on a set-top and it wouldn't play, nor could I get it to play in the iMac. I also had difficulty getting the iMac to eject this DVD.

    It sounds as if you have multiple problems here. The first problem is that QuickTime Conversion is not the way to export to iDVD. You should export to QuickTime Movie.

  • Quicktime Conversion for PS3

    I have the HV-20 and a PS3, I'm trying to put a test clip on a USB drive then watch in HD through my PS3. Sony says the PS3 can only use MPEG-4 format, so I used FCE to do a quicktime conversion and export the clip into the correct format. It comes up under MP4 (ISMA) but I could only get the custom field under image size to come up using just MP4. I messed up and used the 1920x1080, when the HV-20 only does 1440x1080, but still when I played it on the PS3 not only did it look horrible it was also in 4:3 instead of 16:9 ratio. Why is this? Can you tell me which settings will give the correct look on playback with the PS3?

    OK, I just tried a size "passthru" export encoding and got a "unsupported data" error on the PS3 with 2.1 firmware! I believe these files had previously played back in 4:3 format (literally 1440X1080 with no horizontal expansion) using previous firmware.
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    from searching the web, I get the impression that the mp4 specification for horizontal scaling has somehow diverged from the original QT method. From there it seems to digress to people resorting to low level HEX editors to sort things out (good grief!).
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    http://www.avchd-info.org/format/index.html

  • Quicktime Conversion to Windows Media

    Hi,
    I just finiz editing a 8 minutes movie.
    When i try to export it using Quicktime Conversion to _Windows Media_, the exported file is only 30 seconds long.
    I'm puzzled. Anyone knows why?
    If i export to Quicktime directly, it is ok. However, when i copy it to my laptop (Windows) and open it with Quicktime 7.2, i got problems playing it. The movie is just blank white but i can still hear the audio.
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    It's probably because you only have the trial version of Flip4Mac installed, which only gives you 30" max export times. If you want to make full use of Flip4Mac, you must invest a little cash.
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