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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

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TJ Skywasher Author

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Feb 2, 2013 11:46 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

The video is still chopped off and displayed at the incorrect size whatever I view it in, even if I export it and upload straight to YouTube. Viewing in Quicktime just helped me understand why, because looking at the Movie Inspector confirmed it was at an irregular size. Removing the clean aperture setting has rectified the issue and all vidoes exported are shown correctly now.

J-Powers

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Feb 11, 2013 10:44 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

I am having similar problem. I am new to FCP (having started in iMovie).

The clips for my first movie total about 6 GB, but the .mov file that I save to my desktop clocks in at more than 13 GBs. I recorded 1920 x 1080p at 24 frames

Any idea what is going on an how I can resolve this. I want to publish on Vimeo.

gooober

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Mar 24, 2015 9:08 AM in response to TJ Skywasher

Hello TJ!

I had much of the same issue as you and found that the answer was not in a particular elusive setting which I could not find in Final Cut Pro X.

The issue was Final Cut Pro trying to make a portrait video into a "Widescreen video" when exported. All I had to do was crop the widescreen edges off of either side of the video, then export.

Warm regards,

Mark

Final Cut Pro X Exported Video Size