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Exporting HD to AppleTV from Final Cut

May 30th, 2007 · Comments · apple, software

Perhaps I’ve missed something here, but I’ve noticed that when you export an HD project to AppleTV from within Final Cut Express HD, you get an SD format (4:3) file. If however, you first do a full quicktime output (1080i) and then export to AppleTV from within Quicktime Pro, you get a proper 16:9 720p file.

I don’t know why this is, but it’s happened regularly enough to me the past few weeks that I thought I’d share so others could avoid the same frustration.

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  • teedawg
    When you say "export from FCE to Quicktime" you are not using Quicktime conversion right? How do you know its 1080i? Do you have to set it to that? Thanks.
  • I export as a full frame Quicktime first which is a HD 1080i file based on what was imported. If you import 720p content it will come out that way as well. This is really more like a save as ...

    I then use Quicktime Pro to export as the appropriate file for AppleTV which is a way to compress it down a bit yet retain a very high level of quality. Sites like YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo and Facebook can all except this.
  • teedawg
    When I follow your instructions, the video quality has gone up. Thanks! However, the video does not cover the full screen when watching. Is there an option that I can change to make the screen size bigger?
  • not sure where you are watching, but in Quicktime you can play fullscreen if you have Pro or Quicktime X in Snow Leopard
  • teedawg
    On apple tv. . . . .
  • ivan
    this article is from may 2007 and it's still a problem. i don't have quicktime pro but imovie works. still a pain.
  • Thank you! I thought I was going crazy.
  • You bet - seems like a bug to have to do it this way, but at least it works!
  • Kirk Wedge
    Hi. Just wondered if you ever figured out how to preserve 16:9 directly from FCE to Apple TV? Maybe mail me?
  • As noted in the post I export from FCP to Quicktime and then from Quicktime to AppleTV which gives me a 720p 16x9 file. Takes a while, but it works
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