Media Export Window Overview

Select the type of export to use with the selected files.

Select the export preset to apply to the exported files. Autodesk presets are built-in presets that you can still modify using the Advanced Options. An asterisk indicates that the preset's advanced options were modified.

Name given to the exported file, as defined in the Advanced Options. Editable when exporting a single clip.

Enable to display the advanced export options. You should not have to edit these settings, unless the pre-configured presets cannot meet your needs.

Select Shared to have this new preset available across users and projects. Select This Project Only to make it available to the current project only.

Select the format of the sequence. Media Only exports the segments of the sequence as individual clips, but does not export the sequence itself.

Enable to include in the published sequence the video tracks information. Required to export video.

Enable to include in the published sequence the audio tracks information. Required to export audio.

Displays the sequence filename based on the Pattern field. Each type of exported file has its own filename defined in the relevant tabs. Non-editable.

Displays how to name the exported media files. Build a dynamic naming scheme using Add Token, or characters normally allowed in a file name. Create folder structure using / . The extension for the file format is automatically appended. Frame identifiers are automatically added to image sequence files. Editable.

Inserts in the Pattern field a token to build a dynamic filename. Note: date is the current date, formatted as YYYY_MM_DD.

Enable to export the segments of the sequence as files of the type specified in Video Format.

Select the type of video file to create. For movie, you select the wrapper and codec in the Movie Options tab. For file sequence, you select the file type in the Video Options tab.

Select Use Original Media to export the original source referred by the exported sequence, without any modifications. Select Use Media with FX to export the rendered media.

Select Keep All Tracks to export a clip for each segment of the sequence. Select Flatten Tracks to export commit every transition and flatten the sequence. Select Flatten with Transitions to flatten the sequence and commit every transition except dissolves, creating a single clip.

Enable to add head and tail frames to exported segments.

Display the amount of head and tail frames.

Enable to export the audio files the sequence will link to.

Select Use Original Media to export the original source referred by the exported sequence, without any modifications. Select Use Media with FX to export the rendered media.

Select Flatten Tracks to commit all transitions and create one audio clip per track. Select Flatten Tracks with Transitions to create an audio clip per track but keep live transitions. Select Keep All Tracks to export one audio clip per audio segment.

Enable to add head and tail frames to exported segments.

Enable to export the audio files the sequence will link to.

Select the container for the exported file.

Enable to convert your clip into a YUV headroom compliant clip (also known as valid- or legal-range). As a general rule, should be enabled when deliverable is broadcast. Disable to output a standard full-range clip.

Enable to include audio tracks within the exported file. Available only Export Type is Movie.

Select the format for the exported media.

Select the image compression to apply to the exported file. The available compressions depend on the selection in File Format.

Select a pre-defined video compression codec profile when exporting QuickTime files using the H.264 or MPEG-4 codecs.

Enable to apply the LUT displayed in Applied LUT to the clip .

Select the type of LUT to apply to the clip.

Displays the type of conversion LUT applied to the clip, either imported using Import, or edited using Edit.

Use to browse and select a LUT.

Click to open the LUT editor.

Enable to hard link the published files to the original files if both the original and exported files are located on the same filesystem. If not, the application creates soft links back to the originals. Available for file sequences only.

This option saves disk space on export as files that remain unchanged by the export are not duplicated. Unchanged in this context means they were not rendered not resized in anyway. For example, a file sequence of 20 dpx are imported in Smoke. Of those 20, 12 are modified in some fashion. With Link Original Media enabled, of the sequence of 20 dpx, only the modified 12 are actually created at export; the other 8 dpx are just linked to from the export folder.

Define the padding of the frame identifiers appended to each file of an image sequences. This ensures that the images are listed and stored in the correct order. Only used with image sequences.

For example, a frame pad of 6 indicates that each frames's file name has its frame identifier padded with a number of zeroes required to make it a 6-digit number: frame 1 is written as 000001, frame 22 as 000022, frame 55555 as 055555, and so on.

Enable to base the start number of the exported sequence of numbered images on the timecode read from the clip file.

Enter the start number to be used in the exported sequence of numbered image files. Disabled when Use Clip TC Names is enabled.

Select a resolution for the new clip. Select Custom to specify a non-standard resolution.

Select an option to identify the attributes associated with a particular film or video format, such as resolution, frame rate, or colour space. Active when File Format is set to DPX.

When exporting DPX files, you can choose a DPX Transfer Characteristic. A DPX Transfer Characteristic is information that is stored in the DPX image file header. It identifies the attributes associated with a particular film or video format, such as resolution, frame rate, and colour space.

Setting a Transfer Characteristic in no way changes the image information stored in the DPX file. The Transfer Characteristic simply indicates the attributes of the DPX file to another device or application. Some devices or applications may take advantage of this information to improve workflow. For example, selecting Logarithmic can allow a film recorder to adjust its parameters to print film-originated DPX files with the correct densities.

Specifies the degree of quality versus compression. A value of 0 gives the lowest quality (and highest compression), while a value of 100 gives the best quality (but applies no compression). Available when File Format is set to JPEG.

Displays the frame width of the selected clip. By clicking it you activate the field, allowing you to enter the frame width value that you want to use on export.

Displays the frame height of the selected clip. By clicking it you activate the field, allowing you to enter the frame height value that you want to use on export.

Select a bit depth to be used on export. Some file formats support multiple bit depths. Bit Depth is active only when Resize is enabled.

Select a fit method option to be applied to the exported clip.

Select the filter option to determine the quality of the interpolated resize result. The Resize Filter box is active only if Fit Method is set to Crop Edges, Fill, or Letterbox.

Select a standard frame aspect ratio. Select the Set to w:h option to set the clip to use square pixels. Select Custom to define a custom frame aspect ratio in the Aspect Ratio field.

Displays the aspect ratio defined by Aspect Ratio Presets. Editable.

Select an option to set the order in which the fields of interlaced material are scanned.

For interlaced material, you can specify whether the resize needs to be done from both fields or just from one of the two. In the latter case, the result is a progressive clip made from the same two fields.

Select the audio format of the exported audio tracks. If Export Type is Movie, the audio is embedded within the video file. Any other Export Type outputs a separate audio file.

Select the bit depth of the exported audio file.

Select the compression for the exported audio file. The available options depends on the Audio Format.

Select the sample rate of the exported audio.

Select a mixdown to apply to the audio tracks, if any are included with the source clip.

Enable to automatically create an unmanaged copy of the exported media in the Media panel, linked to the exported files. Available when performing a Sequence Publish with a File Sequence, without any resize or bit depth change.

This is similar to importing back the exported media with Create Source Cache disabled.