Hi,
I'm on FCP 7. I followed the steps in the sticky and got to the part about saving the footage as huffyuv AVI in VirtualDub. I now have a 15GB file for one episode. I want to know, before I take this into Mpeg StreamClip to save in a .mov container, is there another format I can convert it to that will give me a smaller file size? For instance, I tried converting it into ProRes 422 in Mpegstream clip, which yielded a smaller file size to work with in FCP. However, when I export it, save it in an AVI container again through Mpeg StreamClip, and then open it in Vdub via crossover, Vdub can't open it.
I want to work with smaller file sizes (not enough hard drive space) and be able to export it in a format that is playable in Windows (I'll be bringing it back into my PC to use TMPGEnc to convert it into MPEG2 for convention submission, which I've always used)? I used to be on Premiere, but FCP is now my main editing platform and I want to stick with it and try this out.
Thanks!


