Exporting multiple individual clips from timeline

As a small addendum: I just tried to replicate this by creating a project using 5 seconds of 45 minute long clip, and exporting from a smart collection like yours. It worked correctly.

I expect that deleting preferences may work.

To delete preferences, hold down command and option while starting FCP X and click Delete Preferences.

The application will start in a default state, and open an "Untitled" library. Reopen the library you were working on, set the preferences the way you like them, and try again.

Just so I understand: you are exporting from that Smart Collection, right?

The clips in that collection show with the duration used in the timeline, right? And yet they export as the full duration?

I don't know why that would happen. At the moment, I can offer no suggestion other than the default one: delete preferences. That is something we should always do when something is not working right.

I would not give much importance to the export size estimates, they are usually way off. In fact, the file size depends a lot on content. The most compressible the content is, the smaller the file size, but FCP has no way of knowing that a priori, so the estimates are usually way above the actual final size.

Monkeyhanger wrote:

Did you try multiple clips from the same large file?

I just tried:

• an event with a largish 45 minute file

• a project with two short selections from that file (9 seconds and 12 seconds, more or less)

• a smart collection with Used Media

I selected both clips in the smart collection, exported and everything came out right. I got a 9 second movie and a 12 second movie.