Captain Scarlet Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Well to cut a long story short; I've exported media that I want from Final Cut Pro (assuming it would come out in a quicktime playable format for my Windows PC), however I think it has come out in a Final Cut Movie format. (*.fcp I think).Is there anyway of converting this file type on my Windows PC so I can import it into Vegas and do something with it, or at least view it on this PC?Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 You'd need to export it from FCP in the right format. I doubt you will be able to convert from a Windows PC. Maybe. Can you not just export using the Mac?Also, a better question would be "how do I convert this FCP file into a normal video file?" Because it's nothing to do with Macs/PCs having incompatible files (they don't) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 I assume you want to take what you've done at college and edit it at home?To be honest, it's not gonna happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Scarlet Posted October 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 Ah well I'm not back at College to access the Mac until Tuesday, just wanted to drop it into Vegas and see what I could do with it.I was fairly certain I rendered it for Quicktime use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve-A Posted October 23, 2008 Report Share Posted October 23, 2008 If its a .fcp then its a final cut project not a video file. Final cut doesn't have its own video format, it purely uses quicktimes. That said it often doesn't use file extensions, so files might be .dv, .mov or have no extension.You'll need to go file>export then either quicktime movie or using quicktime conversion. Using export as quicktime movie will give you a full quality full resolution video file, that will probably be too big to transport easily( 4mb per second, 250mb per minute ish) and may or may not play in windows, depending whether you have certain codecs or not. It all depends what your sequence preset is. On the other hand if you use 'using quicktime conversion' then you can choose a codec, and compression settings, frame size, audio quality etc, and your more likely ot end up with an easily transportable file, that if you choose your codec right you can play and edit on a windows machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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