tech talk: Sorenson 3 went missing from Final Cut Pro

Okay, for all the non-technical people out there, you may not want to read this post… I must warn you, boring tech talk ahead.

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I edit in Final Cut Pro and often output to a Sorenson 3 Compression. Pretty common practice. I was editing one day here recent, went to export my project using quicktime conversion. Went to my options to chose Sorenson 3 and I about had a cow. My dearly loved Sorenson 3 compression setting was no where to be found. So were a few other settings. After digging around, I discovered the issue.

Apparently in one of updates for Quicktime, Apple thought it would be a good idea to not include some “older” compression settings in Quicktime. Apple is notorious for doing this time to time…I still love my macs . Fortunately, they also included a solution if you need these archaic settings.

Solution: Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences. Chose QuickTime. Click on the Advanced tab. Check the checkbox “Show legacy encoders – Allows exporting using older codecs” and voila…..Sorenson is back baby!

March 30, 2008 5 Comments Short URL

5 Responses to “tech talk: Sorenson 3 went missing from Final Cut Pro”

pixanator44
March 30, 2008 at 7:24 am #

check your viewer options to see if Boris is still there. One of the QT updates deleted it for some reason. If you want to get it back, you must contact the makers of Boris.
admin
March 30, 2008 at 7:33 am #

Never used that I don’t think to export. Now of course I use Boris like crazy in FCP. Is that an export compression setting that you use often?

aj
kimmi
April 16, 2008 at 9:16 pm #

thanks heaps for the advice, i just had (and now solved) the same problem
riki
May 8, 2008 at 8:34 am #

Thanks for posting this. Just what I needed.
pxlstrchr
June 26, 2008 at 2:21 am #

THANK YOU!!!
You saved my day!
I already installed three other versions of quicktime due to this problem!

thx!