Beginner problems: Importing and exporting footage

I'm trying to work with four minutes of footage, but whenever I import the video, Fusion seems to cut it off at 1000 frames with the sound completely missing. And when I try to render the final video, the only format I can use is Quicktime. Sound is muted in the composited clip as well. Can someone please tell me what I need to do to fix these errors and what I need to change to be able to render in video formats besides Quicktime?


In case this is a problem with my computer...

I'm currently using the beta version of Fusion 8, on a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series, with an Intel Core i3-5015U CPU @ 2.10GHz, on 6 gigs of RAM.

did you set your timeline length higher then the default 1000 frames?

you can alt+drag your loader into the timeline to set it to the length of the loader. this will also adjust your renderrange in the loader


loading sound into fusion is a bit more complicated. AFAIK you can only use 44khz Wav files for sound, not embeded audio from a video container.
to use this you can create a saver node and put the audio file under the "audio" tab
or
you right click on the speaker icon and choose a audio file there

to get other video container formats for output we need to ask Blackmagic to implement them.

what video formats do you miss?


most of the time its best to render to a image sequence and the do conform/finishing step in a edit software with the sound and export from there to the final delivery format.

rendering to image sequence is a good thing: you can stop and restart the rendering at any time, you dont lose any data if the system crashes, you can go into a next workflow step, you can use renderfarms to render on many machines, you can render multiple frames at once, ...

I'm trying to work with four minutes of footage, but whenever I import the video, Fusion seems to cut it off at 1000 frames with the sound completely missing. And when I try to render the final video, the only format I can use is Quicktime. Sound is muted in the composited clip as well. Can someone please tell me what I need to do to fix these errors and what I need to change to be able to render in video formats besides Quicktime?


In case this is a problem with my computer...

I'm currently using the beta version of Fusion 8, on a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series, with an Intel Core i3-5015U CPU @ 2.10GHz, on 6 gigs of RAM.

Hi,

4 minutes of footage is about 6000 frames.
You should set your timeline length to 6000 + frames. So you should see your complete clip.

Quicktime export from fusion is not the best idea.
I prefer exr. It carries alpha if needed, is possible to have 16 bit float color-depth and ... you can rerender it even when the target clip is opened in e.g. Resolve.

Exr 16 bit float with zip-compression does a good job - IMHO.

But one thing can be a problem.
Your 6 GBytes RAM is not very much when you work with clips in this length.

I hope it helps.
Peter