Welcome back to MacBreak Studio. I'm Steve Martin and we have a special guest
for this Mac break,
Brandon Fisher, and he's at coming all the way from
Idaho. Now, why are you here from Idaho? I attended the
let's see Final Cut Pro Summit.
Yep the first solely FCP 10 Creative Summit. And I met Brandon for the first time, he's watched a lot of our
MacBreak episodes.
And one MacBreak episode in particular that he's interested in was
episode 282. Where I talked about batch exporting in Final Cut Pro 10. I said
you can do it
and I showed it and Brandon's like, no, that's not batch exporting.
So what he did is he took it upon himself
to write this little App, that actually does batch exporting. So he's gonna
show it to us today, so we invited him on the show.
You had your own particular need for batch exporting why don't you tell
our audience a little bit about that. Sure, so I
had client come to me, and they wanted to do- we did forty interviews in two days.
And that's a lot of projects.
To do each individual video as each person being interviewed.
And so, that's how this whole thing came about.
I went to this MacBreak Studio episode
and followed it, but it still fell like it was time consuming to do that forty times.
Right, so let's- Why don't you take us in your little journey through your software and show us
how cool it is.
Alrighty. So if we go to Final Cut, here.
We have our library open we've got some projects in here.
What we're going to end up doing is first of all, we'll get the setup
to be used. And it was covered in that and episode.
but what we're going to do is go to the share option.
Let's do the- we're going to click on our project. So you start by clicking on a project
that you want to export, correct? Correct. Then, what we're gonna do is going to
go to the shared destination button.
And it looks to me like we've got this one set to the default
already. So that what that is, is a Compressor preset, that I use all the time
when I export and that set is default
preset like you but you mentioned. Correct. So
your software will use that as the preset for spitting at all these movies.
Right, so if for some reason the default was already set to master file you just want to
make sure the set your default to
whatever Compressor preset or other preset that you want,
underneath your shared project. So if we click on this one,
what we're gonna do is then we'll hit the next button.
Then from here, we already went ahead and we set up a folder, but
if you wanted to you could basically put the folder wherever you want.
Click new folder, and then name your folder-
It will use that folder to export to. Now I have a folder called Steve's exports.
And and the thing is you don't want to click save, you want to cancel out of this.
At this point you just wanna-
Correct. Designate your folder. Yep, absolutely. So what we're gonna do now is-
Now that we've got that selected, we're gonna hit canceled twice-
So once, and then twice. (sarcasm) Oh my gosh! Just so much clicking Brandon, it's horrible.
I know, but hopefully it'll be coming out where Apple wants to
make batch exporting part of Final Cut. Until then, this was a good work around.
That's fantastic.
Once we got that set up and we're going to come here to FCP exporter,
and name- I'll just say this real quick to too,
make sure that you just start in your list view,
with which project you're going to start on. So we're gonna do this one right here-
So to clarify, you're gonna select one in the browser
in List View. Correct. And its gonna export from that one on down.
Correct. So, whatever clip you choose,
that's going to be the one, that it's gonna start from before it goes through your list.
Absolutely.
So this right here, what we're gonna do is we'll go over to this little
App called FCP Exporter. Excellent. And then
Right now we've got, let's say we're gonna do five. We'll just export the
the next five projects. Now, I noticed that the default is five. Why did you
choose five as the default number in exports? I figured that you could
just go in and do
Command-E, Down Arrow, Down Arrow, if you had less than five. It didn't seem like
it would save you that much time.
Again I done two projects, one that I had 40 interviews. And
another one that I had 192 projects
in my library. So I just- Wow. Anyway it saves a bunch of time.
If you do anyway- So five is kind of the the baseline
starting- Right. Okay. I don't think people are gonna see a huge
time-saving if they if it's under five but anyway-
What we'll do is we'll just hit execute here.
This just tells us it going to take less than a minute. Obviously, the more
projects you have
it'll kind of tell you how much time, you know. So you can walk away
get a break, that kind of thing. So I'll just go ahead hit run.
And that's it. So we're gonna take our hands off,
and it's just gonna go ahead and do all of, what I call, Batch Exporting.
And look, it's going through the list, and it's setting up in that folder.
It's like there's a ghost operating the machine. Correct.
The one, I guess, caveat. The one thing to be mindful of,
is this process right here for-
What it warned you, so like one minute. That locks up your computer.
So, make sure they are not going to be trying to click around or do any other
tasks while it's doing that. So, I noticed it just the script.
And now it's presumably crunching away in the background.
Correct. Yep, and so if I click on background tasks.
And if we go to sharing- Look at that they're all queued up!
Now that is batch exporting! Yeah.
That is really slick Brandon, and that's- that's fantastic. I would
totally use this. And this is, this is on your
website. Can you share your URL so people know where it's a- where it is?
Alrighty. So I have a web site called FDPtraining.com
and that's where you'll find FCP exporter.
How much is it? Right now, I've got it on sale for twenty dollars.
20 dollars well spent!
I know. If you need two hundred movies exported out of Final Cut Pro 10.
Right. Now, one other thing before you go. Yeah? Brandon
recently took the Final Cut Pro 10 certification class,
and now he's a "Certified" Final Cut Pro 10 instructor. So, congratulations buddy.
That's awesome, and it was so great to meet him at the FCP 10 summit.
Hopefully, we're gonna do it next year.
It was a great event, a lot of fun. If you want to check out more Final Cut Pro
stuff, rippletraining.com. Check us out on Twitter. Check us out on Facebook.
Check our Plugins.
We have all kinds of training.
So thanks again for joining us Brandon, it's really a pleasure to have you here.
Thank you Steve. And thanks for watching another episode MacBreak Studio.