FCP movie vs Quicktime

Just curious what the difference is between exporting as FCP movie vs exporting as QT, for iDVD4, or any other application as they seem to be the same, mostly?

We've found another crucial difference. Might not be relevant to yor situation but here's my sad story:
FCP movies, like those that are created by captured clips, do not carry a file extension. They have an FCP icon instead. Exported QT movies usually carry a .mov extension but not always because you can decide not to include it.
An FCP movie that is uploaded to some servers will not be useable as an FCP movie, it acquires a generic Terminal-style icon. It's easily fixed by using an Applescript to append .mov to all files in a folder but 'tis ever so tedious.
This probably isn't endemic or wed be hearing much more about it, I assume it's our IT system's server geeks playing tricks on us.
bogiesan

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I have tryed to play the DVD in many DVD plyers, but they all say " unknown file format "

playing them through AppleTV, can do the trick?
yes and no. The AppleTV is a terribly crippled product. Seems to have been launched with only a few of its capabilities enabled and then it sort of got forgotten.
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I've output a 720x486 quicktime movie from an 8 bit SD timeline. when I play the movie in quicktime, it is squeezed from top to bottom, even though it says it is 720x486. If I drag that same quicktime movie back into final cut, the perspective looks perfect.
Why is this? How do I get it to not look squeezed in quicktime? Is this a square pixel vs. rectangle pixel kind of a thing going on???

Yes, it's the non-square pixel issue.
If you are going to play the material from the computer, not video, convert to a 4:3 ratio (square pixel - eg 640x480)
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How do I export from FCP to a QuickTime file with multiple audio channels?

I'm delivering a project where the first step is to generate an HD Cam SR master, which I will be doing at a post-production lab. They will then do a QC check for me. To generate this HD Cam SR master, they need to me to bring in my 98-minute long movie on a firewire hard drive, in five equal parts -- QuickTime files. From these five QT files, the lab will then be creating an HD Cam SR master that will have...
dialogue on tracks 1 and 2
effects on tracks 3 and 4
music on tracks 5 and 6
MY QUESTION
a) I don't see any way to separate these audio tracks accordingly in the FCP menu for QuickTime export. Does anyone have any experience doing this?
b) And does anyone know the most efficient way to combine timeline audio tracks for this purpose? I have my dialogue sitting on the first FOUR audio tracks, actually. To deliver this film, I'll need to crush these four audio tracks to two, as listed above. I could generate an AIFF file, I suppose, import it back onto the timeline, sync it up, and then re-export along with the visuals to make the final QT file, but this seems like a generation loss.
thanks,
Shanked
PS the movie is made up of footage from a Sony PMW EX1. I used the codec "XDCAM 1080 24p 35mbs VBR" for editing in FCP. I'll either export to QT using this same codec or switch to "Apple ProRes" if my machine can somehow maintain the sync.

The following will answer both your questions a) and b).
Click on your master timeline and press cmd+0 (zero) to bring up Sequence Settings, then click on the Audio Outputs tab on the right. Click on the Outputs option and change it to 6. You can leave them as Stereo pairs.
Now, back on your timeline, you need to make sure all your audio is organised so each track. A1, A2, A3, A4 etc has all the relevant media on it.
Then, on the left of the timeline you see the Destination toggle buttons, then you see the Padlocks to lock tracks, then you have the Toggle Auto Select squares. If you right-click on the Toggle Auto Select squares you bring up a little sub-menu, at the top of this list you'll see Audio Outputs, which will show the stereo channels for that particular track. As you've changed the number of Audio Outputs in the Sequence Settings, the list will show: 1&2, 3&4, 5&6. You just tick whichever channels you want.
In your case, you have dialogue on the first 4 tracks, no problem, just go down through tracks 1,2,3 and 4 as described above and assign these to Audio Outputs 1&2.
Then just go down through your music and effects audio tracks and assign them accordingly.
Now, when you export your timeline as a self-contained media file, it will have different audio channels.
I hope that makes sense. When you change the number of audio outputs as described in the first step, I believe the rest of it is fairly self explanatory, once you know where the settings are.

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I have captured video from a Canon Mini DV GL2 to FCP. When I export the video using ANY format, DVC Video Pro, using current settings, or changing them, making self contained, recompressing all video or not... nothing matters... DVDSP locks up. The movie icon will turn black after I select the file to import as an asset, and then... the lovely little message "The Application DVD Studio Pro Quit Unexpectedly." This has only happened on the last two movies I've exported from FCP v5. I'm using OSX 10.4.8
I'm using DVDSP version 4. I"ve played these movies in other apps with no problem. I've resaved them with Quicktime.... no matter. No can import.
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Thanks
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Maybe related to the bug with MPEGs that comes up
from time to time
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=401
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I have held off on 10.48 myself on all machines I
need to rely on
Well, sadly, I followed your string link, had high hopes. I changed the "Open With" to Quicktime, hid the general info, followed all procedures, to no avail. I can't even open the FCP movie in MOTION! It crashes too! Unfortunately, I can't go back to my previous version of Finder as I've updated my backup as well. Surely someone out there has overcome this problem??? I can't be the only one experiencing this can I be?
G5 Dual 2500 Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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The size of my exported FCP movie is too big for DVD studio pro

Hey,
I have been editing for 4-5 years now and have never had a problem with size of a project to put into DVD Studio Pro to burn. However, I just finished a 2 hour project in which exported as a FCP movie it is 23.97 gb in size. When i put this into DVD Studio Pro it makes it 4.8gb in size which just makes it too big for it to burn. I have tried changing the compression to no avail and just now decided to clean up the timeline so everything is on one track with nothing overlapping. (The problem was it was a 2 camera shoot so the first camera i had on the bottom track constant with the second camera on the top track when i needed it but still with the first camera underneath.) Do you think this could be the solution to my problem? If you guys could help me out it would be most appreciated!

some things don't make sense here. please clarify.
Standard DV is roughly 5 minutes per gig, so that means that you have just about 2 hours of video, ok, got that. Now it's the two track thing that gets me.
Are you saying you have 4 hours of footage, the same thing from two cameras, and you're trying to set up a multi-angle DVD?
If it's just that you used two video tracks to edit, then NO, it is not your problem. It's still only 2 hours, the video will be mixed down to one track upon export from FCP to quicktime.
My suggestion is, instead of bringing a quicktime file directly into DVDSP, use compressor. I believe they have a preset in compressor 2 for a standard 120 minute DVD. IF you're project is truly less than 120 minutes, than that should be fine. If not, then you may have to manually make your own setting and lower the bitrate.
So the workflow is:
-open sequence in fcp
-file>export>quicktime movie... (you can uncheck "make movie self-contained" if you want it to export faster and you plan on keeping your original capture footage around)
-export your movie to a directory of your choice with a name of your choice.
-open compressor (in applications)
-drag the quicktime file you created into compressors main window, this will set it up. Now specify the export setting (120 minute HQ all files either 16x9 or 4x3 dep. on project) and specify a location for the files to be created. I strongly suggest that you use the HQ (High quality) settings in compressor. It's much slower to process, but much better quality.
-with a 2 hour movie it should take a really REALLY long time to compress, so I'de say do it over night.
-when compressor is done, you should have 2 or three files. a .m2v file a .aif file, and a .ac3 file. The .aif is your PCM audio, much better quality than the .ac3, which is dolby 2 channel. However, the .ac3 is a much smaller file with a lower bit rate, so if the .aif makes the DVD file size too big, you can switch it out for the .ac3
-Finally, open up your DVDSP project, drag the .m2v, .aif, and .ac3 into DVDSP and use the .m2v for the video track and either the .aif or .ac3 as the audio (as mentioned above)
-the good news is, your DVD media is already rendered, so when you go to build your DVD it will go much, much faster!
By the way, I recommend you go to file>advanced>build do not do a burn and build.
I find it best to build the VIDEO_TS folder on a hard drive and then use a program like toast to create a DVD (using toasts from VIDEO_TS option). This method also allows you to go back into DVDSP, make tweaks, and reuse your VIDEO_TS folder, not having to rebuild the whole thing each time.
Remember, 120 minutes on a single layer DVD is going to render fairly low quality no matter what.
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You exported from FCP using codecs only available to that app.
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hello out there
i completed a 31 minute fcp movie
frame size 720 x 480
audio:48khz 16 bit
quicktime compression settings =
compressor : ntsc - ccir 601 /DV
compression type: dv/dvcpro ntsc
scan mode: interlaced
aspect ratio: 4:3
i exported using qt [no converstion]
resulting file is 6.64 GB -
How would i get it down to 2GB to send a digital preview movie file to festivals either via
"withoutabox" or "shortfilmdepot"
whose size limits are 2GB. i would like to use up all the size for best possible quality result.
this is the first time i have attempted to use the compressor and i'm not sure at all how to get the best quality
within size limit.
could i also just use the quicktime conversion to get a highquality 2gb movie from the 6.64 master?
if so would i do that within fcp
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noise reduction filter does to quality of music.
well any advice would be greatly appreciated,
thanks!
celia

Use these settings for a start.
File>Export>Using QuickTime Conversion.
In the window that opens click the Options button and in the new window (called Movie Settings) click the Settings button.
The window below will open.
Set everything like that.
If you wish you can deselect "Frame Reordering" and if you choose "Faster Encode" it will encode in about half the time with little or no loss of quality.
Click OK and you will be returned to the Movie Settings window.
Click the Size button and then from the Dimensions menu button select Custom and insert the frame size you want.
Click OK and you will be returned to the Movie Setting window.
In the Sound section ensure that AAC has been selected.
Click OK and then Save the sequence to a suitable place.

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Hi, this is probably a basic question but i am very new to fcp as usually use imovie&dvd!
I have a very short sequence which i exported to QT and is now a fcp movie file not avi which seemed like an inferior quality file.
Am having huge difficulty burning this to dvd - have tried twice in toast basic and although the movie plays and sounds perfect in the preview, when the disc mounts and plays the image is perfect but the audio is only a piercing squeal.
Tried to burn through the finder but the disc wouldn't verify and it gave me an error code.
To avoid too many coasters i was wondering if anyone has any idea what I'm doing wrong to get this distorted audio once burned?
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Without a doubt, DVDSP will give you a much better product.
But, if you simply need a quick burn to DVD, you can also use iDVD.
Render your movie and do an audio mixdown in FCP, then... Export Quicktime Movie / current settings / self-contained (or not, if you'll be burning from the same system) / don't recompress all frames.
Once the file is exported, just open iDVD and drag the exported movie file into the interface. There's a setting to make it 'first play', but I don't remember where.
Burn away.
You can also utilize the other features of iDVD...slideshows, themes, etc.
K

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Let me preface in that I am not in the video editing profession. Many times I have exported my work to the professionals. I'm sure knowing what you're doing is half of the battle. Here is my dilemma. First, I'm using Quicktime pro just to add a text track to the movie. I then save the file as what Quicktime pro calls Movie .mov. This looks good and has the quality of the original .mov and the small data size. However, no other player than quicktime will recognize the text track. I then tried exporting from Movie to quicktime movie format (still .mov, can anyone explain the difference of the two .mov types???), but I find that the image quality is poor. Yet, in the quicktime format other players (except windows media player) recognize the text track. By poor quality I mean that I think what I have is the blocking effect. I assume that this is due to the bitrate being to low. Again, I would like to keep the file size low and managable for data storage and downloading purposes. I was hoping that in the end all video players would be able to have no issues.
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I should also say that I'm a PC user with a quicktime pro windows version. I'm sure that doesn't help me one bit!! However, I believe my issues are more with the fact that I'm not experienced in compressing files and knowing exactly the right settings.
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am i correct that this 'my photo stream' process is not removing any image data?
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