Digital Commons at Penn State

This tutorial will cover exporting from Final Cut Pro for iPod.

1) Once you have your edit finished in Final Cut Pro the first thing that you want to do is Render your audio and video. To do this we want to select “Sequence” across the top then go down to “Render All” then move over and select “Both”, this will render both your video and audio.

2) Now that the rendering is completed we export the timeline, to do this select the timeline with a single mouse click on the timeline. This step avoids exporting single clips from the viewer window.

3) Next we can click on “File” located in the menu across the top, we will then move down and select “Export”, then move over and choose “Quick Time Conversion”

4)Now we are presented with the Save menu, We want to click the drop down arrow beside the word “Format”. This will give us a list of options for exporting our movie, here you can choose the preset “iPod”

5) Once you have chosen the preset “iPod” you can choose your files name and where you want to save it then simply click “Save”