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What is your process in Exporting video from FCP, or FCE?
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What is your process in Exporting video from FCP, or FCE?

iChompU 8:14 PM - 12 May, 2009
I am trying to find a decently simple way to export a finished product to a folder where the file size is decent.
When I export straight into .mp4... the video is of shit quality..

So I export to DV, and change that file to .mp4 using MPEG Streamclip...
but still the quality isnt that great, and the files are still a little too big..

I want a crisp file that is at the most 140MB.

Suggestions??
mle 11:29 PM - 12 May, 2009
I use compressor and export it to 8bit uncompressed video with 320k AAC. It's a big file but no quality loss compared to the original source. Then I use ffmpeg to convert the video to 3000k mp4 leaving the 320k AAC audio untouched. Files are around 80MB or so if I remember correctly...
a-swift 3:53 AM - 13 May, 2009
mle has the correct workflow. don't ever convert anything to DV for any reason, the quality will be crap. it's barely passable as an acquisition codec but it's use beyond that is not much.

plus a lot of people who use DV as an intermediate format, do it incorrectly. i see this ALL THE TIME. if your blacks look grey (crushed blacks) and your overall contrast is compressed, then you are doing it incorrectly too.
iChompU 3:14 PM - 15 May, 2009
thanks for the advice.. i want to use compressor, but the something is wrong in it.. i think is said something about the background process cant be located or something like that.
eder 7:54 AM - 18 May, 2009
I export in final cut w/ mp4 h264 (you need to take it off imsa mp4 or some shit like that), 3500k video, keyframes every 10 frames, multipass encoding (under advanced), audio @ 320 AAC best quality, and optimized for streaming.
a-swift 4:38 PM - 18 May, 2009
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I export in final cut w/ mp4 h264 (you need to take it off imsa mp4 or some shit like that), 3500k video, keyframes every 10 frames, multipass encoding (under advanced), audio @ 320 AAC best quality, and optimized for streaming.


awesome quality. takes too long.
eder 8:31 PM - 18 May, 2009
i'll do a bunch of edits, and then batch export at night. wake up w/ errthang done.
Betow 9:20 PM - 18 May, 2009
I use MPEG Streamclip to export a .VOB file to a DV file which does not need to be rendered once opened in FCE. After reading this thread, Exporting a .VOB file to the 8bit Uncompressed video settings in MPEG Streamclip, it then needs to be rendered in FCE before exporting to H.264.

So which option is best?
eder 9:27 PM - 18 May, 2009
does FCE accept apple prores 422 as a native codec? I know in FCP it does and I never need to re-render.
mle 10:19 PM - 18 May, 2009
Doing a 2-pass encode in ffmpeg takes about 20 minutes per video. Anyone do a comparison of ffmpeg versus final cuts' mp4 encoder? I normally do a few video edits in FCP, export uncompressed, and then run a Perl script on my Linux box to convert all of the new videos using ffmpeg.
eder 11:51 PM - 18 May, 2009
2 pass in FCP takes about 40-50 min per video. How long does it take to export uncompressed?
a-swift 12:59 AM - 19 May, 2009
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2 pass in FCP takes about 40-50 min per video. How long does it take to export uncompressed?


my 2pass with ffmpeg takes 40-50 minutes too but here's the difference,.. i can go back to using FCP right after I start encoding!
eder 1:19 AM - 19 May, 2009
care to explain the ways of the swift to me?