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So I whipped up a nice 45 minute 1080p video in Final Cut Express. I've tried a few quicktime exports but they all come out like shit. So then I tried a few huge exports, like using Apple Intermediate Codec, to try to get the video into handbrake, which does awesome quality transcodes. But I can't find a format that handbrake will accept as input. Anyone know any tricks to getting your video from FCE, into Handbrake?
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Just about anything that's not Apple proprietary (AIC, ProRES, Pixlet) should work. I can't find a listing of FCE export options online but use an industry standard like HDV, raw yuv, MJPEG, or just really high bitrate MPEG4/H.264 to get out of FCE.
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I couldn't find a way to export to HDV, only (SD) DV. FCE uses a standard quicktime export window, so anything that works with quicktime, but which of those work with Handbrake?
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Any of the standards I mentioned will work with HB; it's just the Apple proprietary options where you run into trouble. And you're right when I do a QuickTime export from iMovie '09 I don't have HDV or DVCPRO HD as options, I guess those are only for FCP.
MJPEG ("Photo - JPEG" in QT) is probably the quickest option to get it out of FCE. With the quality at best it's about 200Mbps at 1080p30 so your clip will be ~70GB.
Raw yuv ("None" in QT) will also work, but it's about ten times the size of MJPEG.
What playback device/constraints are you targeting? What HB preset/settings are you using?
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You could export the movie to an HD iDVD image, then apply Handbrake to that.
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I tossed my video and I'm going to reacquire it fresh. Once I do, i'll try the MJPEG and post back. How do I export to an iDVD HD image? I don't recall seeing that one in FCE?
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FCE may not export directly to iDVD. I was thinking of iMovie.
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What's your source material?
Originally Posted by chabig 
You could export the movie to an HD iDVD image, then apply Handbrake to that.
You mean an HD-DVD image in iDVD? What compressor is used? I suspect it's going to be slower and lower quality (although smaller) than MJPEG.
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