Exporting uncompressed Quicktime files

I have been asked to create an uncompressed Quicktime HDV file of a short film that I edited in Premiere Pro CS3... Having done some research, it appears that this is not as easy as it at first sounded. I know you can export an uncompressed .AVI file, but I can't seem to find a way to export an uncompressed Quicktime. Is there a codec/plugin avilable that would allow me to do this, or can I export the .AVI and convert it to an uncompressed Quicktime file somehow?
Any help is very, very greatly appreciated.

Export cannot crop selectively, it's all or nothing.
You need to make your edits such that the program monitor shows you what you want to see. If you don't see what you want in the program monitor then it will not magically change when you export.
If you don't want the footage to be "bigger" then don't scale it up. If you want to hide something use other editing techniques like masking or picture-in-picture.
You will find links to many
free tutorials in the PremiereProPedia that will quickly show you how things are done in Premiere Pro.
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Asking in the wrong place, twice, will not give you an answer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/913390
Since it appears you did not read the reply in your other message, maybe you will read this reply
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Problem with 8-bit uncompressed quicktime file

I have exported my FCP video using the 8-bit uncompressed setting considering I initially captured the content uncompressed via a Blackmagic Decklink card. The problem is, regardless of the settings I have chosen for the uncompressed export, the quicktime file always has horizontal lines going across it when I watch it.
It almost seems like this could be an interlace issue, but I don't really know why that would be the case. I imported from DigiBeta that had telecined 16mm footage on it, but the footage should be at 29.97 when it is imported. I'm sure I'm an idiot and there's a simple answer to this, so if anyone has any ideas, please let me know.
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If the exported movie plays fine in FCP and but not in the QT player, I would assume everything is okay and it's just the QT player. A couple of tests you can try:
1. Make sure the Quicktime player is set to actual size in the view menu.
2. Open up the movie properties in QT player. I have version 7 and can do this by going to the window menu, then show movie properties. If I select the video track and then the visual settings tab, there is a high quality preference checked. If I have it checked, I can see visual lines in the credits of an DV movie I have. if I have it unchecked, the horizontal lines dissapear. There are other settings there that affect the playout of the film, but shouldn't affect your final format.
QuickTime Player is probably showing you the highest quality of image and taking an interlaced video and playing it progressive on your computer monitor.
If you are going back to tape, you'll be using FCP to go back out to tape and shouldn't have those line issues.
If you are compressing for DVD, you shouldn't have those issues.
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After exporting to quicktime file, the file has sound but no video, what am I doing wrong?

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Hi
Did You go via Compressor ?
Did You use QuickTime Conversion ?
I don't
I do
• In TimeLine set In and Out-Points to the full Movie/Project
• Select ALL - Clips and Audio
• Go up to Sequence and down to Render Only - down to Mix Down Audio
• then Sequense and Render Selected - Both (Video and Audio)
• then Export and as QuickTime .mov (NOTHING ELSE)
• I use to do - Not Self-Contained as it saves both time and space
Your Start-Up (Mac OS) Hard Disk - Needs lot's of free space to work OK - I never go under 25Gb free space on this one,
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Hey All,
Total newbie, here. So please excuse if this is a dumb question.
I work a lot in commercial production, but obviously, only in the very non-technical end of it. I've been getting a lot of samples of my projects in an AVID-generated uncompressed quicktime format. (The kind where the pixels are round as opposed to square, so if you try to play them in quicktime, the proportion of your screen area gets squished down a bit.)
Here's my question. I know I can bring these into Final Cut Pro and it can translate the pixels so the screen area appears at its proper size. Can Final Cut Express also handle these files?
I tried to figure this out by looking at apple.com/finalcut but couldn't really figure out the answer.
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks...

Cool. That explains a lot.
I'm getting the files from editing houses. They are uncompressed quicktime files. Don't know if there's a more specific description than that. Been trying to transition away from keeping digi-beta copies of everything. The files are coming to me burned on a DVD and then I just copy them straight into my computer.
Don't know what codec is being used. I don't actually have the files on my person at the moment, otherwise I'd check.
Anyway, it sounds more and more like FCE is not the right answer for me. Usually, I have editing places take my uncompressed files and then have them convert them into dv files. Those, I can just bring into iMovie to do what I want. Was trying to avoid having to call in the favor to have the editing places convert them and was hoping to use FCE to do it all myself. But that isn't sounding possible for a lay person like myself.
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The drive is mac standard (not FAT32) and I have checked + confirmed that the drive can take files larger than 4 gigabytes.
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Hi(Bonjour)!
FCE is a fixed format application. It can handles natively (without rendering)standard def DV, HDV and AVCHD.
The timeline(sequence) format can just be either standard or hight definition one. Not quicktime animation. So the non native material has to be rendered before playing the timeline. The rendered material will have the same resolution (or format) than your timeline, thus the poor quality as you display DV material (an interlaced format designed to be monitored on TV sets).(Quicktime animation format is an uncompressed format).
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Hey everyone:
I've got a weird one here. I've made my first project using iMovie. I want to burn a DVD, so I clicked >>Share >> iDVD and it comes over fine. I then setup a menu and stuff and burned it. However, when I play it on my 52" plasma, it doesn't fit correctly. It fills the screen, but it's almost like it's zoomed in so it cuts off of ALL edges.
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I have this same problem and there are several threads running about it. I have the paid-for version of iMovie, and cannot even get it to export a Quicktime movie. This makes it even more useless than I already find it to be. I spent the last two days working on a video, and for me to send it to my client, I would have to freight my computer to them so they could view it.
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