Quicktime Conversion Issues!

I am using my new MacBook Pro 2.33 to edit a 2 minute piece that I want to upload to the web. Ive used Quicktime conversion in the past to upload several other videos to my website. For some reason, everytime I try to export my finished project to Quicktime Conversion, it says: FILE ERROR: UNKNOWN FILE!
What is this all about? How can it be an unknown file? The project is still sitting on the timeline! Just out of curiousity I selected Send to Compressor and it sent it with no problem. I also tried Export> Quicktime Movie and that worked with no problem but I am havng issues with Quicktime Conversions.
Any suggestions?

Which format were you choosing? If it was the MPEG-2 option, chances are you're running QT 7 and no longer have the MPEG-2 Export Component installed on your system.
If that's the case, use Compressor for MPEG-2 and AC3 encoding ... that's what Apple is trying to force us to do by dropping the MPEG-2 support in QT Pro.
-DH

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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

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.

Quicktime Export Issue

On my MacPro have a sequence shot in 720p60 with an HVX200 and when I try to "Export using Quicktime Conversion" and converting to H.264 at 50% (ie. 640x360) the resulting quicktime file is 960x720? I can startup my MacPro in target firewire mode and use my G4 powerbook to perform the same operation using the same files and it works properly. Is this an issue with the Intel version of Final Cut. Anyone have any idea what is going on here?

just created a 720p60 sequence, exported it using qt conversion to h.264 at 640x360 and the resulting movie is ........ perfect. (or at least, an h.264 movie at 640x360)
I tested this with FCP5.1.2 running on an intel MBP

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.
I dont know what went wrong but i should note i pressed something on my timeline that i didnt realize what it did. Its hard to explain what it looks like, when you press on different clips all the clips on my time line quickly turn a more silver/light color and then change back to the normal color(not effecting the video quality just the thumbnails). But it is has a weird color
is there a way i can reset all settings without adjusting my video clips?
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Format: Lubear OCM
Channels: Stereo (L R)
Rate: 48.0000 hHz
Render Settings:
Quality: Normal
Linear PCM Settings:
Sample Size: 16 bits
Checked: Little Endian

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.
Michel Boissonneault

MPEG-2 conversion issues

Hi all-
I normally post over at the FCP discussion page, but for my most recent question someone suggested posting over here, since I'm having problems with the combo of FCP and DVD Studio Pro. Can anyone over here point me in the right direction, even for an old discussion page? (FYI I'm running on 10.3.9, so I'm not on Tiger yet. And I have Quicktime 6.5, not 7).
Here's the original post:
I have FCP HD (4.5) and DVD Studio Pro 2. Both are licensed academic versions.
I have repeatedly noticed problems trying to export my timelines as MPEG-2s, to prepare them for DVD usage.
When exporting with "Compressor," I tend to have a high failure rate - generally, only about 1 out of every 4 exports actually succeed. This has been the case both before and after a recent reinstall of my OS and FCP and DVDSP (for other unrelated reasons). In addition, obviously compressor doesn't give you the kind of control over compression, such as CBR vs. VBR, one pass vs. two pass, max and average bit rate settings, etc.
I also noticed that in my DVD Studio Pro Manual, it claims that I should be able to export an MPEG-2 through "Export > through QuickTime Conversion" if I have both FCP and DVD Studio Pro installed. However, when I get to the QuickTime Conversion options in FCP, "MPEG-2" is NOT listed among my possibilities.
According to the DVD Studio Pro manual, I should be able to set my Encoding parameters in DVDSP's "Preferences" panel, and then have those encoding options carry over into FCP. But the MPEG-2 option isn't even present in FCP.
Is there some crucial step that I'm missing or unaware of?

It does sound more problematic than it ought to be.
First off, the QT conversion export option from the FCP time line should be in place - have you tried to re-install QT lately?
Compressor uses the same 'engine' to encode the footage to MPEG2 as QT will, but in fact does give you more control over the process, since you have access to various filters and settings which in QT you just don't - nor, for that matter, are they within DVDSP.
However, if this isn't working then it doesn't matter how many features you have... One thing to keep in mind is that Compressor 1 was/is not a reliable encoder anyway - the files it creates are fraught with problems like 'spikes' in the bit rate which will prevent the DVD from being built. You may want to consider an alternative encoder as an extra tool. I (and many others here) use BitVice and MegaPEG.X regularly on a Mac, or Canopus Procoder or Cinemacraft on a PC. These do cost (of course) and this makes it even more infuriating when Compressor doesn't do the job it is designed for.
This kind of issue is frustrating because it is hard to nail it down - I seem to remember that some folk reported the order in which the apps were installed makes a big difference - have you recently tried to re-install all of these apps?
Finally, the later version of Compressor is far better (IMO) than the first, but to get it you'll need to upgrade to a later version of DVDSP (v4). You don't need to upgrade the OS or QT in order to run it, I don't think. At some level I believe you will need to do some uninstalling and re-installing in order to fix this issue.

Quicktime Conversion Crash

Ever since I updated my macs to 10.6.3 I can't use quicktime conversion. Anyone else having issues with 10.6.3 and Final Cut Express 4.0.1?

I haven't heard of this occurring.
Try trashing the preferences and repairing permissions exactly as described here:-
http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html

Quicktime conversion - behind the scenes

What exactly happens when you export to Quicktime Conversion?
I have my project exporting to a 300GB external folder. All I see is the file size is 37GB (and growing) but at the same time the remaining folder size is now only 64gb available. Where is the rest of my drive space? Is there a 200gb temp file created first and then it completes the actual converted file?

No actually the trashcan was empty, I make sure I do that often.
I have the external drive actually in a Windows PC that is networked to my Mac. So in the shared drive I could actually see a hidden file that was growing (while the actual output file name remained 1kb). Eventually this hidden file was going to be converted to the actual output mov file. When I realized this (and knew I was going to run out of space), I stopped the process and actually just renamed this temp file with a .mov extension and it worked! It made a 200+gb temp file and I was able to use that to export to Compressor for DVD.
Anyways, I'm rambling on, but this is just in case someone else has the same issue in the future.

Crashes on quicktime conversion

hey
strange this is happening to so many people (i saw a post like 3 threads down about the same thing)
i have an 18 minute video that i need to export...it is in the AIC HDV 1080i60 codec and everything went great when i export to a quicktime movie....
but i use quicktime conversion though and try to export and it crashes like 70% of the way through...
weird thing though is that is exports just fine to iPhone format (that is the only other one i've tried)
here are the technical details and what i've tried:
iMac (less than year old)
2gig ram
trying to save to a 1Tb external firewire with 400gig free (also tried saving to OS disk with 350gig free space)
i have trashed preferences and tried to export as quicktime also.....doesn't work
last weird thing is that i exported two seperate versions of it (different bitrates) just two days ago....came back and tried exporting again but it's a no go
any ideas?
why is this issue affecting so many people
Thanks
~Will-i-am~

hey
got a little more information...
i took the finished movie (the project exports fine as a straight quicktime movie) to a Mac Pro that my university has. I tried exporting it with the quicktime on the Mac Pro (from the exported HD quicktime file) and it failed again...
so does this narrow it down to something wrong with the movie itself or it's "assests"
i appreciate any help
Thanks
~Will-i-am

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

QuickTime Conversion Exporting HDV

Hi,
The camera I used was a Sony HDV 1080i60 and my movie is about 10 minutes in length. Just a simple video with fade in and fade outs with audio.
It seems that when I convert by exporting to QuickTime Movie, there is no issue. However, when exported through certain settings under QuickTime Conversion, the 'cross dissolve' effect does not seem to appear properly.
Can anybody suggest a standard setting for this?
Thank you.

Hi Muglho,
You should really use QT movie, same settings self-contained and not QT conversion as the latter causes further coompression to your video and possible loss of quality (HDV is an heavely compressed format).
gogi

Export using Quicktime Conversion Save Prompt Freeze

I'm seeing a bug when I export using Quicktime Conversion using Final Cut Pro 7. From the main save prompt window, if I open "options..." and make my export adjustments and return back to the main save window again, it does not initiate a save when I click the save button. Further, it will not let me cancel out either. The save/cancel buttons will click blue for a moment as if they were pushed, but nothing happens - the save prompt window is totally unresponsive. My only course of action is to force quit. (note: the force quit window does NOT report FCP as unresponsive.) This problem does not happen every time, but enough to be a major annoyance. Has anyone had this issue? Thank you.

Your lunch break long wait rules out any "frustrated after a few seconds" reaction and would certainly be long enough for a drive that has dozed off to react.
Some particularly processor intensive formats could conceivably have a short delay before something starts to happen.
Writing to the system drive is not something I would personally do -I have dedicated storage for my entire video workflow. But this would also rule out a sleeping drive. The system is constantly being written and read.
If you are writing particularly large files to the system drive, bear in mind that a good chunk of the "tons" of free space is allocated to "swap" files -data that can't be written into RAM is off loaded to the hard drive. Depending just how large the swap files are and how large your video files are, there could be a delay in reallocation of swap file space to allow the video files to be written. Having less space for swap files can cause the OS to slowdown. Drives will generally become less responsive, the fuller they are.
Note that I am by no means an expert on this, so the percieved slowdown may be less significant than what the paragraph above implies.
Run Disk Utility and make it a regular part of your maintenance routine. Writing and reading the huge amounts of data that are used in video production can cause problems with the directory structure. Better to catch it early and fix it, directory damage is culmulative. You might not notice it until your files are no longer accessible.
How is the system response when you export a project as a self contained movie using current settings (same as your Timeline)? Exporting with QuickTime Compression always recompresses your video -even when writing using the same codec as the Timeline already uses, so it will take longer to process.
Self contained with current settings is the workflow that I always use. The resulting "master" file is brought into Compressor to make the deliverables. This also frees up FCP and lets me continue editing while compression runs in the background.

Final Cut Pro 4: Problems exporting video using QuickTime conversion

just recently updated my Mac to version 10.4.11 -
Ever since, Final Cut Pro won't let me Export my video using QuickTime Conversion.
Its starts exporting, then freezes at 79%. A general error message pops up.
I know its not a space issue, because I have 20GB left and the video i'm exporting is only 2 GB.
I installed all the software updates.
Can anyone help? Do I need a new version of Final Cut?

1) this is the final cut express forum not the pro.
2) 10.4.6 is not the latest, try updating to 10.4.11
3) after any system update you must run disk utility to repair permissions or errors that may not have been addressed during the upgrade process.
4) have you tried exporting as a reference movie then playing it in qtpro, if ok then export.
5) what are you trying to export too?

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

Export using QuickTime Conversion + SMB automount problems

I have noticed an interesting (read bad) behavior in FCP (5.0.4) - If I try to do an export using quicktime conversion with the destination being an automounted (via netinfo) smb share as opposed to a apple-k mounted share in m4v, 3g, mp4, image sequence, still image or quicktime movie - I get a File Error: Unknown Folder. However if I do the same export but in avi, wmv, dv stream, or flc formats, it works fine.
Trying to do the same export operation in quicktime pro produces an error -120, which is equivalent to directory not found.
Seems like a quicktime problem dealing with the automounted shares, anyone else run into this issue? Have a fix?
Thanks!
C M I

I know I can save locally + that it is tied to the quicktime components - I'm looking for fix/workaround that addresses the issue and streamlines my workflow, thats the reason I set up the automounter in the first place.
So it's clear though, quicktime has no problem with smb in a general sense, it only has problems w/ the automounted smb shares - manual or command+k mounting of smb shares offer no problems.
I use the automounting for two reasons: first is to emulate unc paths for rush render queue and second is to have consistent working paths to static content on a file server so final cut docs can be passed from editor to editor and link consistently.

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