How To Export Your Movie From Final Cut Pro

How To Export your Media From Final Cut Pro:

 

  • From the FCP Menu go to File -> Export -> Quicktime Movie.


  • The Save File dialog box will appear. Give you file a name in the 'Save As' field, underneath that choose the destination folder(in the example we are using the Desktop). Finally Hit Save.

 

  • Your Movie Should now appear in the location you specified(note longer files will take a bit longer to render)

 

 

  • We now need to convert the movie to an MPEG2 File, to do the we will use a program called ffmpegx, which can be found on the desktop. Go ahead and click on it to open it.

 

  • Drag and drop the movie you exported from Final Cut into FFMPEGX where it says, "Drop File Here"

 

  • Next, In the "Target format" Section, Select the "DVD ffmpeg" option.

 

  • Set your destination in the "Save As" Field, and hit encode.

 

  • You should now have a version of your movie with an mpg extension.