How do you export from Apple Motion 5 into another format besides MOV?

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Adrian1974 Author

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How do you export from Apple Motion 5 into another format besides MOV?

This has been puzzling me for a while, and I have looked online but nowhere can I find a way to export in Apple Motion to any other format besides MOV. I don't want to create an 8Gb file which is a problem with MOVs - I want a more manageable size. I don't have compressor.

I know that I can use GarageBand to convert the MOV to an MP4 but I'd rather not double handle everything. Does anyone know if it is possible? And if so can you point me to instructions on how to do it?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.5

Posted on Jul 26, 2024 12:35 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 26, 2024 1:19 AM in response to Adrian1974

Being mov does not equate to being large...

It depends a lot on what contents are, on frame size, and on CODEC.

Of course if you export in ProRes 4444 it will make huge files, but you can export using H264, which is the most likely to work on just about any mac, pc, or phone too.

There is absolutely no need to convert to mp4, by the way. Both mov and mp4 are just containers, what determines size is the codec used inside. An H264 file in mp4 or mov container uses about the same bytes.

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Adrian1974 Author

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Jul 26, 2024 4:09 AM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Okay... fair enough. This is a good answer and I see what you mean. In changing the codec of my file to H.264 it is now 1/8 the size.

I always just thought that MOV was some kind of uncompressed file format.

Thank you Luis. Never too late to learn.

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