To upload the videos onto exploresaturna.com, the videos had to be exported as .flv files. Final Cut Pro does have an option for .flv under “export”. However, FCP would freeze every time I attempted to export my “sequence” as a .flv file.make sure you select "Make Movie Self-Contained"
The first solution I looked into was to export the “sequence” as a .mov file by “Using QuickTime Conversion" under “export” then use SUPER (Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer) to convert from .mov to .flv. However, the picture quality of the .mov file was unbelievably terrible. After editing the videos for weeks, compromising the picture quality was the last thing I wanted to see. I was hoping that SUPER would enhance the picture quality while converting from .mov to .flv but it wasn’t helping as much as I had hoped.
In the end, this was how I successfully exported as .flv files. In Final Cut Pro, I went to File > Export > QuickTime Movie. I had to make sure that I selected “Make Movie Self-Contained”. This will make a .mov file as a Final Cut Pro movie file as opposed to a QuickTime movie file. Then I brought the .mov file into Adobe Media Encoder where I could convert the .mov file to a .flv file.
