Export several self contained movies via "Automator"?

Hi,
If we have, say a 30 minute FCPro 7 sequence open, I want to chapter mark about 30 portions of the time line with Chapter markers. Everything works perfectly, even iDVD recognizes them.
NOW . . . I'd like to export each "clip" - they're about 1 minute each - as a self contained movie. Easy - but very work intensive having an in and out point and exporting. But it works well.
Is there a way using Automator to somehow tell it to take each chapter marker (30 of them) and export every section so I don't have to each one manually via in and out points?
Anyone know any secrets as to how this might work?
Thanks,
Larry

Forget Automator. Not even AppleScript works with FCP.
Can Batch Export be convinced to do this for you? What happnes if you take that sequence with the markers and drop it into a Browser? Can the markers then be used to create clips? If so, tey might be able to addressed by Batch Export.
Sorry, got no idea if it's possible.
bogiesan

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Hi,
I think I'm doing this properly, but perhaps someone will have more experience and expertice! We shoot on a Canon XF300 camera, which natively captures on XDCAM HD422 720p30 (50mbs). FCPro 7 could capture natively, but am I correct, X cannot? (Please . . . somebody tell me Apple does have the codecs for XDCAM native import!)
No problem, we open 7 to capture from our cards we shoot on. THEN we quit 7, open X and import the files! So we keep the fast import speed and "smaller" files (50 mbs vs. 65 in Prorez) of the individual captured clips. We import for highest quality at Prorez 422 into X. Edit everything - and now for the question.
It's time to export a master. I have "learned" this - I THOUGHT if X was set (in the edit menu) to ProRez 422 better performance, or the Best quality, or Proxy - I THOUGHT when you export, the quality wa always the best X can do. (Basically ProRez422 at 65mbs.)
But I find now I was wrong!
When I export to Self Contained Movie with settings left on "Proxy" the exported file is ProRes422 and plays at 20mbs. Much "lower" quality than we want. But leave all setting the same in X, except change the "quality" to original or optimized best performance OR BEST quality - the export is still ProRes422, but the data rate is 65mbs. (Which I assume is "better"!) BTW, we use 12x720.
So I was wrong! It's important (I'm guessing and looking for conformation) that if we want the BEST export quality, we should NOT have it set to PROXY!
I think everyone will agree with everything I've said so far, as that's what we're finding. But NOW I see X will export at XDCAM Prores422 at 50mbs (by changing the codec on the export menu.) Now, the result is 50mbs (lower than 65mbs, good! Takes up less data)
But . . . WHY would X export at XDCAM Prores422HD (at 50mbs) but NOT IMPORT OUR NATIVE FOOTAGE OF THE SAME VINTAGE?
What am I missing here?
Thanks - hopefully many people have the same thoughts?
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Tom, it's all a bit confusing, although I have spent considerable time with Canon on this! What I KNOW is FCP 7 will import footage shot on our Canon XF300 natively. The exact codec FC uses is
"XDCAM HD422 720p30 (50mbs)" It works beautifully. 2 BIG advantages for us - it uses 50mbs when it converts to QT files (vs. 65mbs in ProRes) and it imports native clips about 4 times faster than converting to Prores. (On the other side, though - when you render in FC - if the sequence is setup on the cative codec above - it DOES take considerable longer to render anything but that's life, I guess!!
FC then exports using that codec as well, making the self contained exports play at 50mbs, NOT 65 that ProRes seems to.
BUT . . . as we discussed above - FCP X will export to "XDCAM HD422 720p30 (50mbs)" but NOT injest footage in the XDCAM format. We ingest with 7, then quit 7 and open X to import the files - I don't understand why FCP X exports in XDCAM, but not log and transfer files natively in that same codec?
Thanks,

Does the choice to export a self contained movie or not appear in FCE?

That's my simple question. Then I will move on.
I found this in the FCE manual under Exporting Sequences to DVD:
2. Configure the Save dialog as desired.
In most cases, you will leave the Include pop-up menu set to Audio and Video. If you
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For more information, including detailed information on settings, see Chapter 72,
“Exporting QuickTime-Compatible Files,” on page 995. Sara
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Did you see this in your other post? -
All you need to do for top quality results is this:-
1. Go to File>Export>QuickTime Movie.
2. In the Save window that appears give it a title and DO NOT tick the "Make Movie Self-Contained" if you are using it on your present computer and are not deleting any files.
3. Open iDVD and navigate to your QT movie and drag it into the iDVD's Theme that you have chosen.
4. Do anything else you want in iDVD and burn the DVD.
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If your sequence is just plain video edit, I mean, no effects, color correction, graphic elements (text, etc), then you'll get no quality difference encoding from your timeline or from the self contained. Both sources are same quality.
But if you have effects and graphcis in your sequence that you need to render, then you'll get the best quality encoding directly from the timeline, because FCP will use the raw info from each frame as source for the encoding, NOT the rendered ones.
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Export several self contained movies via "Automator"?

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