Q: Final Cut Pro X Exported Video Size
I've recently bought Final Cut Pro X and use it for editing videos before uploading to YouTube. I used to export my videos from iMovie as a .mov file to my hard drive to then manually upload to YouTube. There doesn't seem to be this option in Final Cut, so I've taken to using the YouTube share feature but it never uploads so I just manually upload the .mov file that it saves somewhere in the Final Cut shared files folder.
The problem I have is that I export a 720P file so assumed that the video size would be 1280 x 720, it always was with iMove. I've found that Final Cut spits out the video at 1248 x 702 and this is quite annoying as it sometimes cuts off the top and bottom of a video. Is there any reason why it does this or any way to get it to export at the correct display size?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1), 2.4GHz, 4GB Ram, 320GB HD, 256MB Gr
Posted on May 14, 2012 2:24 PM
I've cracked it, at last. Took a fair bit of googling around over 6 months on and off whenever I've looked into the problem but at long last I've solved it!!!
In Compressor there is a tickbox option on the various export options available or if you create your own custom setting called Add Clean Aperture Information. If this is ticked it will auto hide the edges of your video resulting in the smaller video image size that I've been getting. All I did was untick this and export a video to test it and it works perfectly, my videos are now viewable at the full pixel size. I'm not sure how users of Final Cut Pro X can get around this using the built in presets, but anyone using Compressor can simply create or modify an export option by unticking the Add Clean Aperture Information box.
Posted on Feb 2, 2013 8:57 AM