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Alternatively, you might install NewTek’s free Quicktime™ codecs (available on the ‘Product Updates and
Downloads’ page on the NewTek website), with a view to rendering to one of these directly on your FCP
system.
Actually, FCP does not natively provide broad Quicktime export options, but Compressor™ does; and FCP
can use the latter as its encoder. After creating a Compressor preset that uses one of the NewTek
SpeedHQ codecs, you can click on Final Cut’s File menu, choose Send To > Compressor (Compressor will
open automatically), and proceed as usual. See the documentation for Apple® products for more detail.
A.4.4 EXPORT FILES TO AN EXTERNAL DRIVE?
There are several approaches to exporting media files from within 3Play sessions. By far the simplest is
to use the Export feature – see Chapter 16.
A.4.5 IMPORT/EXPORT FILES LARGER THAN 4 GIGABYTES?
This question may arise if you are using external media, perhaps portable hard drives or USB ‘thumb’
drives. These are commonly prepared using the FAT32 file system, which does not support files larger
than 4GB. As video files will often exceed this size, FAT32 is not very suitable for use in that context.
You should reformat these drives using the NTFS system to eliminate this limitation (or you might consider
transferring larger files over a network connection).
A.4.6 AVOID THE ERROR “… COPY THIS FILE WITHOUT ITS PROPERTIES?”
Windows shows this error message when you export a media file to an external volume that does not use
the NTFS file system. The warning is not really a concern (although we highly recommend using NTFS
formatted storage, as noted in Section A.4.5). The files will copy just fine regardless.
NewTek 3Play generates metadata attributes for media files for internal use. This metadata is only
retained when you export to storage formatted as NTFS. That being said, the metadata is automatically
regenerated if you use the files with NewTek 3Play again later, so its loss poses no issue.
A.5 SOFTWARE, MAI NTENANCE AND UPDATE S
A.5.1 IMPROVE PERFORMANCE?
1. Click the Utilities icon on the Home page in Startup.
2. Click the Defragment Hard Drive link at right (see Section 5.2.4), and follow further directions
provided. This process can take considerable time, so it’s best not to commence unless time
(before a production) permits.
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