All I want is a little Quicktime file....

....is that too much to ask?

Today, fingers and toes crossed, I may hand this project over to a bona fide FCP editor on a REAL editing system.

Until then, I'm still being forced to endure the consequences of my own ignorance....and inflict them on you all:

I created a nifty little sequence that I simply want to export using Quicktime Conversion and put on my website. The original media is a 1:30 sequence in a custom 1366 x 768 format, square aspect ratio -- looks great, but then when i export, I get a squarish version....or the proper shape, but showing just the center of the image....and my render times seem long for such a little request (up to 2 hours).

I just want this to be a reasonable-quality file that I can upload for a client to review.

There must be a standard procedure....but my experimenting just creates more confusion.

Thanks.

rob



rob

FCP 7.3 on Mac Pro3,1
Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Processor): 12 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.25f4

Sequence Settings HDTV 16:9 1920 x 1080 Apple ProRes 422 Proxy
Audio: 48 KHZ 16-bit Channel Grouped

What are your timeline settings when you do this--or is that the real question?

Koz

That is the real question. I want this clip to be in the 16x9 aspect ratio -- but play on a website.... seems like every setting I tried resulted in wrong size -- I did manage to get a 16x9 frame, but it was just the center of my image.... so today I bit the bullet and took my business over to old friends at Matchframe Video, and all is right with the Universe once more.



rob

FCP 7.3 on Mac Pro3,1
Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Processor): 12 MB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 1.6 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP31.006C.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.25f4

Sequence Settings HDTV 16:9 1920 x 1080 Apple ProRes 422 Proxy
Audio: 48 KHZ 16-bit Channel Grouped

So? What did the Friend do to make things right? Andy