Quicktime reference movies?

has FCP stopped making QT ref movies??? I am running FCP 6.0.3 and there is no tab in there to make a reference movie. Does this mean I need to stop working in FCP while compressor does it's thing now?

Export/QuickTime/Current Settings/Audio and Video/No Recompression
Then uncheck "make self contained."

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