Late to the Party -- FCP 6 feature I just discovered

For some reason I had never seen the "batch export" option in the File menu. Using it will be a time-saver, though it surely won't save me as much time as the compressor batch/qmaster encoding has saved me.

Geesh, you would think I was blind or something. What other "new" features have you all found useful?

Definitely useful for getting qt movies out. Also, it keeps sequence timecode or clip timecode, depending on what you're exporting. It's useful for merging multiple qt movies together.



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I use batch export for making quick sound file conversions form mp3 44.1K to PCM 48K AIFF!
Works a peach.

You can also use it to batch export markers in a sequence to turn 'em all into still frame dumps.

You can also batch export your career to China, with or without compression.

- Loren

Today's FCP 7 keytip:
Temporarily mix down audio tracks with Command-Option - R !

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you can use it to create and import 48Hz audio files from a 44.1 Hz CD on the desktop.

Oui Monsieur !

How come batch export is grey'd out??

You probably have nothing selected



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Here's a feature that I used to use only occasionally, but now I have been using it very very often- Compressor droplets. Compressor is a pretty powerful tool with access to a lot of settings (and I am glad Apple has not decided to find some middle ground and create a software similar to MobileMe in terms of execution).

Basically I create a setting in Compressor, and save it as a droplet, and AEs or just about anyone who is too lazy to figure their way around Compressor and different compressor settings, can drop their QT files into it and make compressed QTs to spec and fast (I have Qmaster set up to use a local cluster, and job segmenting turned on or off depending on the type of job).



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