ABSTRACT
There are two basic ways of outputting: exporting and going back to tape. The two ways to get the material from the computer to tape are record to tape and print to video. There is one trap in recording to tape, either manually or with Print to Video. One cannot switch to high quality and automatically force a rerender. One has to switch to high quality and then reset each effect that was rendered at low resolution to force it to rerender at high quality. The advantages of making reference movies are the speed in generating the file and the comparatively small file size. If anything in the Final Cut Express sequence needs to be rendered, it will still have to be rendered for the reference movie, and the audio files will also be duplicated as a mixdown of the tracks. QuickTime Conversion allows one to export still images.
