Hey folks,
I have a couple pressing questions regarding a series of internet film projects I'm producing, and an editor who is out of the country. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate the help.
QUESTION 1
I have a trailer that was shot on a panasonic HVX200, edited with FCP, and converted into a final cut pro movie file (.mov). My PowerBook G4 that runs final cut pro can't open the project file because my editor runs a newer version of final cut than I do. I just found out this week that I need to convert the file to .flv so my web designer can install it as a flash video on the front page of the website. The trailer is large - 1.5GB for about 3 minutes.
Long story short, nothing I try successfully converts the file to .flv. I've tried doing it in FCP, FFMPEGX (free download), and Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac ($30 program). The biggest issue is, they all say they are doing the conversions successfully, and it's not until you put the file into flash and test the movie in flash that you discover it doesn't work.
I'm at a loss, my editor is still out of the country, and I've got an approaching deadline.
Any ideas?
QUESTION 2
I have had soooooo many problems with FCP exporting. One easy and constantly frustrating example . . .
Quicktime files that have been exported by final cut pro don't seem to be readable by anyone with quicktime unless they happen to also have FCP. For instance, my Powerbook G4 laptop (which runs FCP) can read the files exported by FCP as quicktime files with the quicktime application, but the same files opened by quicktime show no video feed on my desktop, Imac G5, which doesn't run FCP. Also, I've tried to give footage to others for review and they can never successfully view it unless they are a professional editor or run final cut pro. Any ideas?
In the past, I've just let my editor handle all this, but now that he's gone and I have to deal with it myself it's killing me!
I have a couple pressing questions regarding a series of internet film projects I'm producing, and an editor who is out of the country. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate the help.
QUESTION 1
I have a trailer that was shot on a panasonic HVX200, edited with FCP, and converted into a final cut pro movie file (.mov). My PowerBook G4 that runs final cut pro can't open the project file because my editor runs a newer version of final cut than I do. I just found out this week that I need to convert the file to .flv so my web designer can install it as a flash video on the front page of the website. The trailer is large - 1.5GB for about 3 minutes.
Long story short, nothing I try successfully converts the file to .flv. I've tried doing it in FCP, FFMPEGX (free download), and Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac ($30 program). The biggest issue is, they all say they are doing the conversions successfully, and it's not until you put the file into flash and test the movie in flash that you discover it doesn't work.
I'm at a loss, my editor is still out of the country, and I've got an approaching deadline.
Any ideas?
QUESTION 2
I have had soooooo many problems with FCP exporting. One easy and constantly frustrating example . . .
Quicktime files that have been exported by final cut pro don't seem to be readable by anyone with quicktime unless they happen to also have FCP. For instance, my Powerbook G4 laptop (which runs FCP) can read the files exported by FCP as quicktime files with the quicktime application, but the same files opened by quicktime show no video feed on my desktop, Imac G5, which doesn't run FCP. Also, I've tried to give footage to others for review and they can never successfully view it unless they are a professional editor or run final cut pro. Any ideas?
In the past, I've just let my editor handle all this, but now that he's gone and I have to deal with it myself it's killing me!