Final Cut Pro help? Uploading to YouTube & Burning onto a DVD player

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Final Cut Pro help? Uploading to YouTube & Burning onto a DVD player

So my friend has final cut pro, & we were using it to edit our school video project. At first we tried burning it to a DVD. We made & finished a templet on dvd studio pro and iDVD and they both worked on the simulation but when we burned it it wouldnt play the movie on the computer or dvd player and i even compressed it and exported it into different formats 2 but nothin worked. I was recently on the phone with a man from apple... and he said that we need to upload it to quicktime (we've already done that) but he said quicktime self contained. How do we save it as quicktime self contained? He also said if we did that, that would be how we can upload it to YouTube.

are all of these facts right? & how do we save something as quicktime self contained?

& any other information is greatly appriciated. We really need to get this project in! Thanks

MacBook, White

Posted on Jan 13, 2009 6:20 PM

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Answer 1

Zak Ray

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Jan 13, 2009 7:10 PM in response to livewithfaithh

When you open the export dialogue, there is a small check box that says "self-contained".

As for YouTube, this may be of assistance:
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/you_tube_reduxgary.html

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Answer 2

Jan 13, 2009 7:19 PM in response to Zak Ray

Where is the export Dialogue? like how do you get there? and do you mean from final cut pro?

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Answer 3

Jan 13, 2009 7:42 PM in response to livewithfaithh

In FCP, go to File->Export->QuickTime Movie (do NOT use the "QuickTime Conversion" option). An export window will open. Click on the "Make Movie Self-Contained" button. Do NOT recompress all frames. You can include chapter markers. All of this is clearly covered in the manual.

-DH

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Answer 4

Jan 13, 2009 8:15 PM in response to livewithfaithh

When you try to play the DVD, does it play the DVD menu but not the video? If so, I think I know what you're doing wrong.

In iDVD, dragging the video file or importing it once usually ends up making it the background file (as in, the video that plays for a few seconds on the movie screen in the "Drive-in" template or in the picture frames on the "Mantle" one).

What you need to do is, after following the instructions that David posted to make the self-contained QuickTime file, drag the new QuickTime file into the iDVD menu twice. The first time, it often becomes part of the background. The second time, it will become a playable video.

Hope that's what you were doing. It's a pretty common mistake for first-timers to make.

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