Reference Movies
Tuesday, January 08, 2008 Filed in: Weekly Tip
sequence files in other applications. Think of a reference movie as a pointer back to the
original media, a lot like a link on a web page.
Follow these steps:
- Choose File > Export QuickTime Movie.
- Name the file, and choose to not make the movie self-contained. This will save you disk space by referencing back to the media on your local drives. That being said, the media can’t be deleted, moved, or on a different machine that’s unreachable via a network.
- Import the file
into your other video application, and start
working.
Reference movies are useful when working in After Effects, Cleaner, iDVD, or other applications where you want to work with a large video file. This is a useful way to export a sequence or longer segment of clips as one file. If you want to permanently save the video clip, be sure to check the Self-Contained box. Just remember that an hour-long show at DV-quality will need more than 12 GB of space!
Like this tip? It comes from the book
Final Cut Studio On the Spot from Focal Press.