Self Contained Quicktime Movie...NO!

Why is it that if I load I clip into the viewer and mark IN and OUT I get the option to export a Quicktime Movie...but if I locate a shot on the timeline and MATCHFRAME the only export option I have is Quicktime Conversion? I have to export small sections for green screen comping in After Effects, and hunting for the shots is a major pain.
Yes, even us BIG GUYS ask questions...
Shane

Okay the problem is that the clip in your timeline is an independent clip - not that it wants to drink and smoke and hang around with loose women - it is no longer connected to anything in your browser. This can happen when you copy a sequence from another project, maybe you deleted an instance of the source clip from your browser, etc.
Whatever the cause, when you "f" or find or "match", FCP generates an "in-memory" instance of the clip from your timeline in the Viewer. Whenever this happens, FCP won't let you use Export QuickTime Movie... - to get around this, just drag the clip from the viewer into the browser, it is no longer only "in memory" and you'll then be able to use Export QuickTime Movie...
I'm not here to make apologies for the circumstances, just describing the behavior and how to get what you want from the system...
Patrick

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Right but what I am trying to convey is that I need to generate the brushed chrome framed, high quality, up-loadable, stand alone video that I used to get with ease and I cannot get that with my FCE. What are you calling it, what is the proper term because I always called them Quicktime. I made one less than 2 months a go.
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Hello, I am kind of ashamed to post this question only now but nothing is
losf for asking...!
I have so far made dvds with a Quicktime mov. file, which is
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Message was edited by: P.N. Barnes
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