Fcp express vs imovie quicktime conversion

In Final Cut Express it is possible to export a single frame from a movie and then use is as a image for a printable DVD or a DVD cover. Is it possible to do so in iMovie (9.0.4) or later?

Thanks. That's disappointing. I wish, also, there were more flexibility when it comes to saving projects.

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Please help. export .wmv file via QuickTime Conversion

Use FCP HD 4.5 QuickTime Conversion to export a short movie which is about 2 mintues long. I only can get exported files in 30 seconds no matter I selected default format QuickTime Moive or Windows Media. Any thing I missed?
I cleaned all markers on TimeLine, but still same
(I am using Power Mac G5 with OS X 10.4.5).
thanks

It means your material is outside of 'safe' levels...luminance, chrominance or both.
Quick fix...apply Broadcast safe filter
Best fix...use Color Corrector 3-way.
You should also post a new thread with a new topic.
K

Please help. When exporting a 720p video using Quicktime Conversion in FCP it saves some extra temporary files to my computer. The file is called ICMMultiPassStorage. This file gets so large that eventually the program and exporting process crashes.

Please help. When exporting a 720p video using Quicktime Conversion in FCP it saves some extra temporary files to my computer. The temporary file it saves is called ICMMultiPassStorage. This file gets so large that eventually the program and exporting process crashes. I have been able to locate the file using GrandPerspective and close out of FCP to delete it. But when I try exporting the movie again it creates the ICMMultiPassStorage file again. I have made sure my scratch disks are set to my external hard drive so I know that isn't the issue. How do I fix this problem so these temporary files are not being stored on my internal hard drive instead of my external?Thanks!

Try exporting the timeline "using current settings" via Make QuickTime Movie, then submit that clip to Compressor for the transcode. This should be faster and less painful.

I am using FC Express HD, and for some reason, when I export a Quicktime movie, the final movie will only play audio, and the video is black. I only get the actual video if I export as self contained, or if I exportusing quicktime conversion. Why?

I am using FC Express HD, and for some reason, when I export a Quicktime movie, the final movie will only play audio, and the video is black. I only get the actual video if I export as self contained, or if I exportusing quicktime conversion. Why?

I am using FC Express HD, and for some reason, when I export a Quicktime movie, the final movie will only play audio, and the video is black. I only get the actual video if I export as self contained, or if I exportusing quicktime conversion. Why?

FCP quicktime conversion export problem

issue exporting still image instead of video
FCP quicktime conversion export problem
within the last 2 weeks i have exported from FCP studio 7.0.3 as quicktime conversion, the settings are:
export as QuickTime Conversion:
> Options> quality> set to Best>
Standard Video Compression Settings
Compression Type: H.264
Motion:
Frame Rate: Current fps
Key Frames: Every 24 frames
check Frame Reordering
Compressor:
Quality: Best
Encodeing: Best (Multi-pass)
Data Rate:
Automatic
Filter… none
Size>
Dimensions:
NTSC 720x486 16:9
>ok
Sound: (don't change anything)
Format: Integer (Little Endian)
Sample rate: 48.000kHz
Sample size: 16-bit
Channels: (L R)
>Export
the results i get a odd. - the video exports fine, except for the beginning titles, instead a still frame image from somewhere else in the video occupies that intro, until the first transition- in this case- dip to white, then the rest of the video is fine. the portion of the beginning that does not show are composed of: livetype text credits in V2 - in which i have done a manual opacity fade up and down - so the livetype text fades in, over matte color solid in V1. in the exported video -i do not see any of this, all i see is a seemingly random still from somewhere else in the video. i can however hear the audio as it is supposed be.
cant figure out why this is happening. anybody know?
i think the livetype files are 1920 x 1080.
my FCP sequence is 720 p
this has only recently started happening and doesn't seem to be consistent.
im wondering if it has to do with the live type files, or the white solid?…
or the conversion settings above?

Alistair
Earlybird is exporting H264 ... the Key Frames setting is determining the GOP length. This value should really be determined based on the complexity of the video, to my understanding, the actual frame rate has no bearing on it. If you have very complex fast moving content then a low Key Frame rate is advisable to ensure good image quality (although it will adversely affect the filesize) whereas if you have slow moving or static content (like an interview subject) then a higher Key Frame rate will still produce a good image but at a smaler filesize. The default of 24 should be pretty much fine as a catchall starting point.
Earlybird
Corrupted render files (and render references) can be a pain because FCP will use those files and references in place of the original media when building the export. And so it should as it does't want to waste time re-rendering sections that are apparently already rendered. Unfortuantely, as noted, if the render file has gone bad and/or starts referencing the wrong media then you'll get these wierd flashes of completely unexpeced and unwanted footage showing up where it shouldn't be. When you trash those files then QT / FCP will just go back and re-reference the original media ... so it's usually a worthwhile step to take just in case thats the problem. The worse case scenario is that it only that doesn't work and you spend some time unecessarily re-rendering.
As to why these files go bad? That I don't know. Why do Preferences get corrupted? That I don't know either but it definitely happens :-(
Cheers
Andy

Fcp quicktime conversion export colour problem

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard, i have noticed that whenever i want to export a file using Quicktime Conversion from Final Cut Pro 6, the output file has lost its colour depth and seems flat.
For example, i have a DV-PAL timeline and want to export a mov file using QT Conversion and the DV-PAL setting, the file's colour is different to fcp.
What could cause such a problem? i never encountered such a problem running on an older system.
Please help!

i have tried checking and unchecking 'Enable Final Cut Studio color compatibility', and i do not see a change. i have even tried opening the file using the old Quicktime player, but both the new Quicktime x player and the old one look identical.
i appreciate your help!

KNOWN PROBLEM BUT NO SOLVING: FCE CRASHES ON QUICKTIME CONVERSION EXPORT

Hi to all,
i'm an italian new user. I already use FCP on my Mac Pro 2007,and i purchased FCE for my new MacBook 2008 3GB Ram.
I use Snow Leopard for both machines. FCE is installed only on MacBook. The issue is:
When i put ANYTHING on timeline (effect,clips of ALL formatsetc) indipendently from Sequence presets,FINALCUT EXPRESS CRASHES IMMEDIATLY WHEN I TRY TO EXPORT TO "QUICKTIME CONVERSION". No messages,no report,nothing.
I searched and read many pages of this forum,i found a similar thread where the suggestions were the erase of preferences in Libray and reinstalling. I DID THAT but FCE crashes again.
I'd like to resolve the problem on this machine,because i will use FCE on this computer.
Follow, there is a sample video of my problem,i captured it for this thread. I hope will help you to understand exactly i want to repair:
http://www.zshare.net/video/658799979072b569/
FCE CRASH.mov - 34.38MB
Thanks in advance
Lamberto from Italy
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Tom,
This is an excellent tip. I really learnt something I wasn't aware of. FCE always seemed to render anyway but it takes longer if you did not render first. But you are right. The manual mentions it as well.
Anyway, it does not explain really why, with Quicktime X installed, I and others experience FCE crashes. Before with Leopard , FCE really never crashed.
Contrary to what I mentioned, I still experience crashes, also after full rendering. Strangely enough, it does not happen all the time. It seems difficult to reproduce the circumstances when FCE crashes on export. Any suggestions?
Jan

FCP footage into iMovie 6

My colleague and I are working on a FCP 5 project (1080i/50) for a local artist. All goes well on this but last night, having little to do in my life, I thought I would give iMovie 6 HD a try and so imported some of the footage we captured in FCP into iMovie 6. The footage imported OK but it is slightly compressed with a black bar down the left hand side. Is this normal?
I set iMovie to 25fps (PAL) before opening a new project and selected HDV 1080i from the options presented when creating a new project.
The footage was shot in HDV mode on a Sony HVR-Z1E. Should I have recaptured the footage through iMovie?

I'm just trying this for you right now..
I'm importing into iMovie HD 6 some HDV (1080i/50) footage which I'd captured into FCP 5.1.
Note that FCP captures differently from iMovie HD, not using Apple's Intermediate Codec, so this footage has to be transcoded into AIC when importing into iMovie HD. It's taken about six minutes to import a 1:39 minute clip of 318MB.
The result is - as you say - a movie with a broad black bar, about one ninth of the movie's width, down the left edge.
This suggests to me - I'm going out soon, so this has to be just a quick first appraisal - an aspect ratio oddity, to do with rectangular vs square pixels, see below.
Nothing appears to have been trimmed off the left edge, so all the picture is there, but in FCP that 'widescreen' aspect shows within a 4:3 editing window, with grey bars at the top and bottom to frame it.
An HDV clip imported directly from the camera into iMovie fills my editing window in near-enough proper 16:9 ratio (..255mm x 145mm..) and an identical clip imported into FCP HD 5.1 shows up as 120mm x 67mm, i.e: also 16:9. When the same clip is imported from FCP-capture into iMovie, then it appears as 220mm x 145mm ..i.e; wrong aspect ratio.
If you look carefully at the same frozen frame in both iMHD and in FCP, you'll see that everything within the frame is slightly -w-i-d-e-r- in the FCP frame than in the imported-into-iMHD frame ..i.e; it's squeezed narrower in iMovie.
This is because QuickTime, and any other computer display process or activity uses square pixels. Television, however, and programs associated with editing images for TV, uses rectangular pixels: short and fat in NTSC land, and tall and thin in PAL land. This is so that - in comparison to a computer-screen standard such as 640x480 for 4:3 traditionally shaped screens - a PAL TV picture, which has more scan lines, and is thus 'sharper' than an American NTSC TV, fits more data across the screen, whereas the lower-quality NTSC system, with "fatter" pixels which have less height, needs more data displayed down the screen to get to the same resolution as the equivalent square pixels.
Maybe I haven't explained that too well, as I'm in a rush right now!
But the result is - as we've both seen - that the picture in square pixels on the FCP computer screen is - when importing this into iMovie HD - understood to be meant to be "thin" PAL TV pixels, and so iMovie - or the Apple Intermediate Codec - converts that into television-intended "thin" pixels on the computer screen ..hence everything's slightly narrow, and there's a blank black spacer at the left.
I haven't time at the moment to try exporting this out to a camera, or to some other device, to see if it gets "unsqueezed" during export, but I might try tonight.
Maybe Matti Haveri might have something to say if he reads this, too.
But nothing's lost; it's just displayed thinner.
[..Maybe I could import myself into FCP and then into iMovie ..I could do with being a bit thinner, too..]
"..Should I have recaptured the footage through iMovie?.." ..Yes. But it might have taken longer, as iMovie converts into the AIC "on-the-fly", thus slowing down imports on all but the fastest Macs.

New 13" MacBook Pro and FCP Express?

Is the new 13" MBP OK for light video editing with iMovie or FCP Express and little photo editing with Photoshop Elements?
For video I use Panasonic AG-HMC40 AVCCAM HD.
Thanks!

Graphics.
However, as I keep telling everyone, I have an almost prehistoric 2004 G4 eMac (1.25GHz 768MB RAM and 32MB VRAM) which ran and still does run, FCE 4 and FCP 6 perfectly well.
The only minor problem was that the new FxPlug effects did not work, but with 200 other effects there was still plenty to keep anyone happy.
Your setup will not have that problem and even though it isn't the latest iteration it should still be excellent for the job.
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Audio and video out of sync when using quicktime conversion

hello,
i am editing a hdv project and want to export to quicktime. the client needs it in a specific size (700x394). they do not want the video in the file compressed, just the size of image. they are compressing the video through flash for the web. anyways, i used to just use quicktime conversion, custom size and use 700x394, but now when i do that the audio and video are sparadically out of sync in the product. the wierd thing is that the project plays fine in the timeline, but when i export the problem occours. i then, exported to a full res fcp movie and it is fine. then tired reexporting through qt pro to 700x394. when i did this their were no sync issues but the quality of the file was not so good, it look more pixely, certainly not as good as when i did it using quicktime conversion.
how can i export through fcp to get the 700x394 file? someone said 'use current settings' instead of using quicktime conversion? how do i do this? what do i need to do and what are my settings?
any help is appreciated. thanks a ton in advance.
cheers,
clay

What format are you converting the HDV to?
If it's animation, it is quite possible your computer can't pull the data rate. In this case it would be a processor / hard drive issue not an out of sync issue.
x

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.
Anyway...here's a down and dirty way to author a DVD:
#42 - Quick and dirty way to author a DVD
Shane's Stock Answer #42 - David Roth Weiss' Secret Quick and Dirty Way to Author a DVD:
The absolute simplest way to make a DVD using FCP and DVDSP is as follows:
1. Export a QT movie, either a reference file or self contained using current settings.
2. Open DVDSP, select the "graphical" tab and you will see two little monitors, one blue, one green.
3. Select the left blue one and hit delete.
4. Now, select the green one, right click on it amd select the top option "first play".
5. Now drag your QT from the broswer and drop it on top of the green monitor.
6. Now, for a DVD from an HD source, look to the right side and select the "general tab" in the track editor, and see the Display Mode, and select "16:9 pan-scan."
7. Hit the little black and yellow burn icon at the top of the page and put a a DVD in when prompted. DVDSP will encode and burn your new DVD.
THATS ALL!!!
NOW...if you want a GOOD LOOKING DVD, instead of taking your REF movie into DVD SP, instead take it into Compressor and choose the BEST QUALITY ENCODE (2 pass VBR) that matches your show timing. Then take THAT result into DVD SP and follow the rest of the steps. Except you can choose "16:9 LETTERBOX" instead of PAN & SCAN if you want to see the entire image.

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."
What I don't understand about these is that I had "video" as my destination. This is a drive within my firewire drive that I had earmarked for just video and it has 23GB of memory in it which should be enough for this piece. Am I wrong?
I know that the other internal drive that I have just for graphics such as video does have a lot on it. A 200GB drive, it only has about 5GB left of memory. Can anyone enlighten me or point me to some articles.
Thank you in advance,
John

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.
And please don't call disk space MEMORY - it is not memory. Memory is RAM. Disk space is storage. Also, I should mention that the efficiency of your hard drive drops off SIGNIFICANTLY once it gets over 90% full.
make sense?
Patrick

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.
Anyone got any ideas? I am exporting at the same size and using Best Quality.
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.
Reduce frame size (customize it i.e. 480x270 etc.), keep bit rate at around 1,000kbts not 10,000, do some tests with a portion of the original movie (You could try broadband medium in the Use drop down menu). Initially FCP may show that the export is taking a long time (i.e. FCP shows an initial 7% done and seems to remain like that for rather long) but after a little while the operation is usually completed very quickly.
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.
G.

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?
Alternatively, is there a quicker way to always get to my preferred export settings?
Thanks.

Why not just construct your favourite QT EXPORT setting in Compressor and then drag that setting into the box every time you want that type of movie?
K.

Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 crashes when using QuickTime conversion export

Our copy of Final Cut Pro 5.1.4 has started to crash when exporting using QuickTime Conversion. It gets about 66% complete, then dumps out. I have updated FCP using Software Update and QT to the latest version. Any ideas why this happening? Pro Kit 4.5 installed. QuickTime Pro 7.4.5
My previous post had the wrong version of FCP. Dyslexia sets in.

Erik:
quite often during render I get the error messages "The specific file is in use by another application"
Check this Apple doc:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302790
I think that was solved with 10.4.10.
About the crash problem, you would post the system configuration of that computer.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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