reference movie

Q: should it take the same amount of time and space (file size) to create a reference movie as it does to create a Quicktime Movie (self-contained)?

- Steve

No and no.

<<<No and no.>>>

What Tae meant to say was a reference or non-self contained movie is a really small pile of pointers to clips. It's not the actual movie. Move one of those clips by accident and your reference movie is so much garbage.

A self contained (non reference) movie is the real thing. You can move that to another machine and it will play just fine. It's not dependent on anything else.

Koz

This is what I thought...BUT...it's been my experience in 4.5 that it takes the same amount of space and time.

Here's my workflow:

file>export>quicktime movie>same settings, self-contained NOT checked.

The timeline is 1:44:42:00 long, one video layer, no filters or anything, and it takes about 45 minutes to write the file...which takes up 22.16 G on the HD.

What am I doing wrong?

- Steve

<<<which takes up 22.16 G on the HD. >>>

Typically, with no effects and other fancies, that file would be really tiny compared to the self-contained movie.

I can't wait to see the answer to this one.

I can't get near the G5 to try this out, but if I get an opportunity, I'll try.

Do you get *exactly* the same size file with and without?

Koz

Koz,

It's exactly the same size. Rather frustrating. This has happened on several occasions (each time I've tried it).

10.3.5, G5, dual 2G, 2G RAM, 2x250G HDs.