Exporting for iPod/iPhone straight out of Final Cut Pro has been messed up from the day Apple came up with these presets. So I made this screencast to show you how I deal with it. For best results put this thing in fullscreen mode.
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Thanks for this, Verdi. Very interesting - and bizzare that Apple has never fixed this export problem. I didn’t know about it as I’ve never needed to export for iPod, but good to know!
Glad to see you showing the Command-J function in QT Pro to change aspect ratios…I use that a lot for fixing videos at work, one of my favorite tricks.
You remain my hero, Verdi. Finish this project I’m on 11/3 and will be free ’til mid-November to play in 2L. Let’s DO something. I’m at your service there for whatever nefarious art project you got going, blah, blah.
Either that, or I’m trying to make a documentary and rather stuck. Maybe you could help me get unstuck.
Interesting. Good to know for the future. I’ve never come up against this as I always export an uncompressed master, much like you did, as an intermediate step and do all my encoding in Telesteream Episode, and set my frame size, rate and PAR there. I never go out of FCP to finals. Going via compressor may give you further options to correctly set frame size that direct export from FCP wont.
Like I said, good to know, though.
cheers
Someone on the videoblogging list suggested compressor which I didn’t try before making this screencast because it’s been messed up in the past. But Compressor does works correctly now - at least the version in FCS 2. For some reason though the 480 x 270 900kbps, “iphone” preset isn’t available in Compressor. Also, like you said, I like to export an uncompressed master anyway so this method works fine for me.
Hmmm…that’s interesting, I am guessing that you can’t create your own preset out of FCP? Vegas, let’s me modify any presets to create my own…..good to know though…