Final Cut Pro X Essentials - Rendering Your Final Product Video Lecture | Final Cut Pro Essentials: A Complete Guide - Video & Sound Editing

we've now gone over how to navigate in
Final Cut Pro tens environment working
in the timeline with tools audio
transitions titles and graphics and how
to apply effects now we're going to show
you what to do once your product is
finished its render time you'll learn
how to make a master file or render for
specific device and the settings you'll
need to control like codec resolution
and format now without further ado let's
dive into the export window you can open
the export window two different ways you
can go up to file share for now we're
going to go into master file or the
default now we're not going to get there
this way I want to show you the keyboard
shortcut to get in there which is just
command E so we're going to go back in
here and command E and here is our
export window now it tells us quite a
bit of information here it tells us our
resolution it tells us our frames per
second the information about our audio
that it's stereo and 48 Hertz and it
tells us our length and then also our
format and then finally it tells us the
file size the estimated file size which
is really nice it's going to tell us a
title it's going to give us a
description who created it and then it's
going to bring in all of the tags that
are connected to the clips within your
timeline so that if you're exporting
they will bring that in as metadata and
we'll talk about that in the sharing
section of this course but right now
we're just going to be going over the
settings so let's open up the settings
tab if I click on this now we have quite
a few different things to choose from so
format we can see that we can choose
video and audio just video only or just
audio only if you're say just exporting
the audio for maybe a radio ad or
whatever you're making and then you can
choose some publishing options like
Apple devices to computer or for web
hosting we're going to choose video and
audio because that's just going to be
typical and then we're going to choose
the codec now there are a lot of choose
from here and what you'll need to do is
choose what is best and what fits for
your current project so if you want a
really large file and now
ProRes four four four four XQ is surely
going to be a really high-quality file
and so is an uncompressed file when
you're choosing which codec you want you
want to make sure to choose what fits
best for what your final destination is
now if you're saving a master file and
you've been working with raw all along
and you're just trying to get a really
nice master file to save for archiving
for any other purpose in the future you
can choose a really high quality codec
or if you need something small like to
share on the web you might choose
something like h.264 now let's take a
look here so you have lots of different
pro res options because well pro res is
Apple right Apple creates these so these
codecs are going to be not only are they
the optimized codecs that Final Cut
likes and wants to work with but it
gives you lots of options from a really
large color space of Apple ProRes 4444
all the way down to a pro res four to
two proxy and they are from quality
they're from top to bottom as far as Pro
res go in that order so the lower down
that list the smaller the file until you
get to uncompressed 8 bit and 10 bit and
those are also going to be high quality
files and it really depends on what
you're trying to do so h.264 is going to
be a very very efficient codec and it's
going to make probably the smallest file
out of all of these choices but it's not
a poor quality codec so most definitely
choose based on what your final output
need is now there's a couple of other
options here so there's dvcpro HD which
is JVC's codec you have HD V which is
kind of the standard and then xdcam ex
HD HD 4 to 2 which are Sony codecs if
you need more codec options like none of
these are actually going to fit your
needs
you can actually export using compressor
which is another product by Apple and
it'll give you more options as well as
make it so you can render multiple
versions of the same file now we're
going to cover that in another segment
so I'm not going to dive into that at
all for now let's choose Apple ProRes
4 to 2 because it is the optimized
file format for final cut and if you had
transcoded just for optimization of the
footage this is probably going to be
something that's not going to have a
whole lot more compression that already
is so next we want to look at the
resolution now if you had shot this in
UHD or cinematic 4k you would hope the
resolution would be matching that and
those are default based on your event
settings so you would have set those a
while ago you aren't able to change them
as well as your audio format and then
you get to choose what you want it to
open with so if I choose this you can
see that when the render is done what do
you want it to do do you want to do
nothing do you want it to open up with
QuickTime Player do you want to open up
with compressor or some other choice
like maybe VLC or whatever else other
purpose you might have maybe you're
having it open up into another program
there are just too many things to list
here lots of options that you could
choose from for all sorts of different
needs and then you could also add to
your iTunes library and then lastly
roles as now roles as are choosing what
you want to output in your video and
this is really setting up how you want
the end file to actually be so
multitrack QuickTime movie separate
files video only as a separate file
audio only has a separate file or reveal
user presets in finder so you can choose
lots of other things so for now we're
just going to choose QuickTime movie
most likely you're going to choose that
unless you're trying to export some
metadata along with it that's it and as
you can see 860 megabytes is the
estimated size and all I have to do is
press next it asked me where I want to
save the file so right now I'm just
going to choose desktop and this is
going to be version 2 for me and I'm
going to press save and you can see
right here that just like all other
background tasks it shows the percentage
that it's happening and it's showing you
what it's doing so it's rendering now 70
to 80 and it looks like it's done and
then it opened up in QuickTime because
that's what I want to do that's the the
final settings and if I play this it
would be a nice video earlier I had told
you you can't change the resolution or
audio format once you're exporting and
there's a workaround for that which is
creating a new project with your
resolution and audio format
requirements copying your timeline and
pasting it into the new one so let's do
that we go up to file new project or
command n and it brings up this window
here now what we can do is we can choose
video properties to custom I can change
this to any resolution we require but
I'm going to choose 4k here it's on UHD
and we like that framerate now down here
with the audio and render properties I
can go custom and I can change those as
well to whatever I want so I'm just
going to leave those there because those
are what I want but I want a higher
resolution so let's label it working in
the timeline for K and we say okay now I
have an empty project now what I just
want to do is come into my working in
the timeline project I double click to
open it all and I'm going to press
command a to select all command C to
copy it all and then I'm going to go
into my working in the timeline go to
the big front and command V to paste and
there I have it
now my project is in 4k so now if I go
file share master file or command II it
brings it up and I can go to settings
and there they are now my resolution is
UHD 4k and everything is set up the way
I wanted to so if you have that issue
where you would set up your project
wrong or you want to do a higher
resolution export you can do that just
by doing this simple workaround it is
important to remember though that your
upscaling the video so you're not
getting true UHD resolution but you are
getting the file size
that's rendering your final project out
of Final Cut Pro 10 in our next segment
we're going to go over how to use
compressor and then how to publish your
video directly from Final Cut Pro 10