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Q: How to transfer final cut pro x video to a flash drive for television viewing

I do wedding videography and editing. I am looking for a way to give my clients a copy of their wedding in HD quality.

I use HD video cameras, and find it disappointing to give my clients a SD DVD. I realize Blue Ray is an option, but I don't have a blue ray burner, and quite frankly, most clients don't even have Blue Ray players.

 

I have experimented with putting my finished wedding videos on USB Flashdrives, and have been able to view on my television in HD quality. But in my attempts, I have just been transfering the vimeo upload .mov file. When doing so, it makes 2 files.....one I can view, and another that says unsupported file.

I often have my wedding videos broken into 3 or 4 movie projects.....Ceremony, Reception....etc. I don't want to give my clients a Flashdrive that has 4 viewable files, and 4 non supported files, and create confusion.

 

What we be the proper procedure, and compression settings to accomplish this goal ?

 

Thank you

 

Rick

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2 x 3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

Posted on Apr 3, 2013 12:37 PM

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Q: How to transfer final cut pro x video to a flash drive for television viewing

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  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Apr 3, 2013 12:42 PM in response to elecarts
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    Apr 3, 2013 12:42 PM in response to elecarts

    The Vimeo upload option should be OK. Not sure what the separate files. Maybe a screen shot of what you're seeing on the flash drive. How is it formatted? These might be files you can dump, but it would be better to see what's going on first.

  • by elecarts,

    elecarts elecarts Apr 5, 2013 8:59 AM in response to elecarts
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    Apr 5, 2013 8:59 AM in response to elecarts

    Here is a screenshot of the Flashdrive info when plugged into computer.Flash drive info snapshot.jpg

    Here is a photo of the TV screen with Flashdrive plugged in. This is the file that does play.

    IMG_2514.JPG

     

    Here is a photo of the TV screen with Flashdrive plugged in. This is the file that does not play.

    Notice it says a different date, but was only put on Flashdrive once.

    IMG_2515.JPG

     

    Since my last question, I have deleted this quicktime movie from the flashdrive, and then retried. When I put it back into the DVD player USB port.....it now shows 4 different files. The old ones seem to be in memory in the DVD player ?? During this test, I realized that the date on the unplayable version, is either the date transferred to the Flashdrive, or the date plugged into the DVD player ?

     

    I had someone give me a .MOV on USB before, and when I plugged it into this same DVD and TV.....it only had the one viewable file  (no 2nd unknown file).....this is why I was thinking....perhaps I don't have the proper settings for my quicktime mov. for this application.

     

    Thanks for your help !

  • by Karsten Schlüter,

    Karsten Schlüter Karsten Schlüter Apr 5, 2013 9:42 AM in response to elecarts
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    Apr 5, 2013 9:42 AM in response to elecarts

    elecarts wrote:

    … This is the file that does not play.

     

    This file CANNOT play, due to its no video ....

     

    Do you notice the different file names?

    'Justin and Katie…'

    vs

    '.Justin and Katie…'

     

    There's a tiny dot in front - which indicates some 'stuff', MacOS creates automatically in its file-structures - which is hidden under MacOs (=never name a file with a heading "." at its beginning! gone, swoosh, vanished!) but needed.

     

    But not under other OS…

     

    You'll find free tools, which can clean media of this specific files -the moment, you mount the stick to an Apple, MacOS will re-create it .....

  • by Karsten Schlüter,

    Karsten Schlüter Karsten Schlüter Apr 5, 2013 10:00 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter
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    Apr 5, 2013 10:00 AM in response to Karsten Schlüter

    here's one of the many tools, which erase unwanted OS-files from exchange sticks

    http://software.ryangrier.com/dsstorecleaner

  • by robertfromhelots,

    robertfromhelots robertfromhelots Apr 9, 2015 6:35 AM in response to elecarts
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    Apr 9, 2015 6:35 AM in response to elecarts

    Hi,

    I have the same issue transferring FCP X to USB for TV viewing.  However, I often film the entire ceremony and it last sometimes over an hour, all in HD.  You can image how much data I collect.  The file after converting it, get around 6GB and it will not fit on a USB formatted at Fat32. 

    Wondering what format the TV can view those files and if there is something out there that will let me create a menu on my USB flash drive so that the customer can just browse like it was a DVD....

  • by David Bogie Chq-1,

    David Bogie Chq-1 David Bogie Chq-1 Apr 9, 2015 7:28 AM in response to robertfromhelots
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    Apr 9, 2015 7:28 AM in response to robertfromhelots

    robertfromhelots wrote:

    Wondering what format the TV can view those files and if there is something out there that will let me create a menu on my USB flash drive so that the customer can just browse like it was a DVD....

    You could build menus in Ye Olde Flash but learning Flash-hated-by-Apple is silly these days. You could also build them using a web page construction kit but the TV set would need to be able to run Flash or to parse the html. Got no clue if that's possible.

    Interesting question.

    Since you're a weddings shooter, I'd suggest you hit your peer forums. Someone in the event photo/video biz must have developed (or knows of) a thumby-based playback system by now. If you find something interesting, please come back and tell us about it.