Get faster in final cut pro – 3 – quicktime export

compressor, FCP, GFIFCP, shortcut on January 20th, 2010 2 Comments

Export as quicktime movie, then go to compressor. This is good for two reasons: It is faster than exporting straight to compressor (try it out if you don’t believe me) and it gives you a full res export to work with in the future. Here is an example : I decide to export my project [...]

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Let the pictures do the talking.

quicktime footage to contact sheet, automated in 2 steps

applescript, automation, FCP on January 11th, 2010 10 Comments

Contact sheets can be an incredibly useful tool to deal with tons of photos. For non-photographic types, these are sheets with lots of little thumbnails on them to quickly show a lot of images. One little-known use is to use them to show stills pulled from a video. This can help to show clients / [...]

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