New Mac Pro and now no FLV Export option in FCP

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New Mac Pro and now no FLV Export option in FCP

Hi Folks,
I have a new MAc PRo and just loaded final cut studio 2 and flash 8 onto it.. I know have no option in the quicktime conversion setting to export to FLV?

Please any help would be huge at this point...

Oh.. I loaded After Effects 7 to the new Mac PRo and I get the Export to FLV option from AE so what is the deal?

Mac Pro 2.8, Mac OS X (10.5.1), 2 gig ram QT 7.3.1 FCS 6.0.2

Posted on Feb 27, 2008 11:18 PM

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Answer 1

Shane Ross

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Feb 27, 2008 11:39 PM in response to Todd Moen

AE offers support for export to FLV and FCP doesn't. If it is an h.264 file, all you need to do is change the extension from .mov to .flv and it will be seen as an HD FLV file.

Shane

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Answer 2

Feb 27, 2008 11:45 PM in response to Todd Moen

Apple has now removed Flash support from the latest versions of QuickTime (7.3.1 and up), so this is no longer possible. As Shane says, you can rename a H.264 .mov file to .flv and it will work AS LONG as the end-user has the latest version of the Flash Player that supports this.

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Answer 3

Feb 28, 2008 12:56 AM in response to Todd Moen

Hi Todd, I bet you upgraded from a PPC machine.
The real problem here is that Flash 8 is/was not a universal binary (i.e. an app that is supported on both the PPC and the Intel Macs).
So the included "FLV Exporter" QuickTime component does not show up in the export dialog even if it's installed as it just does not get loaded.
(Should be in "NameOfSystemHD/Library/QuickTime").
If you update to Flash 9/CS3 you get a universal binary app and QT exporter component and it will work again on your (Intel) Mac Pro.
Btw., the Flash support that was in QuickTime had nothing to do with export - especially not with FLV - but with playback of Flash content.
Addionally, AE 7 isn't a universal binary either, so you will suffer some pretty serious performance losses.

Best regards, Oliver

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