John Lee
January 27th, 2009, 10:41 AM
I'm working on a monthly project that requires 30 individual promos to be exported out of FCP and recompressed to MPEG-2 to air off of our broadcast server. At my previous job we would cut all the weeks promos into one timeline on an Avid and export it to DBeta for airing at our uplink. However, that workflow is not possible here.
We need to post individual mpg files for each promo that airs, so we need to have 30 separate files for each week. The issue we're running into is that these promos have their text animated in a motion, which is subsequently cut into an FCP sequence. Is there any straightforward way to create a batch render of each of these clips out of FCP?
The method I've come up with for now is a straight render of the entire timeline followed by exporting each individual promo out as an uncompressed quicktime, but I'm wondering if there's a better way. I've tried sending to Compressor for export but that hangs, it also doesn't seem possible to export the promos as references either, since the sequence itself is a reference to a motion project. What I'm looking for is a process akin to After Effects render queue, where I'd be able to batch each clip and select the proper mpeg settings for our server in one fell swoop.
Suggestions are appreciated, thanks--John
We need to post individual mpg files for each promo that airs, so we need to have 30 separate files for each week. The issue we're running into is that these promos have their text animated in a motion, which is subsequently cut into an FCP sequence. Is there any straightforward way to create a batch render of each of these clips out of FCP?
The method I've come up with for now is a straight render of the entire timeline followed by exporting each individual promo out as an uncompressed quicktime, but I'm wondering if there's a better way. I've tried sending to Compressor for export but that hangs, it also doesn't seem possible to export the promos as references either, since the sequence itself is a reference to a motion project. What I'm looking for is a process akin to After Effects render queue, where I'd be able to batch each clip and select the proper mpeg settings for our server in one fell swoop.
Suggestions are appreciated, thanks--John