Now I'll show you how to export your footage. But if you have a clip selected, I highly recommend that you do select off of that clip this is so you export the whole timeline and not that clip only. On the top right of your window, you'll see the share button, go ahead and click this button and select master file. If you click here, you can change the name of that file. When I'm exporting multiple drafts. I'll put a V and a number as version two, three, and so on.
You could roll your mouse over this thumbnail so you can skim through what you're exporting. Click on the Settings tab. Under format you only want to set to video and audio if you are sending the final product to your client, but the file will be a little big. If you want to post this on the internet you can select the web hosting option, you can see the file just drop down to 159 megabytes. Click Next to continue I recommend creating a folder where you save your finished work then click Save. As this is exporting this button over here will display the background test so you can see the progress so far.
I'll go ahead and click this In and over here under sharing, you can see that it's still exporting. When this is done a QuickTime file will pop up on your screen and you have the option to view the video file by clicking that show button on the top right. You should be able to see your video file I have mine over here. So I'm going to go ahead and close this and go back to Final Cut Pro. I'm going to show you some of the sharing options available click this Share button for the drop down menu and select Add destination. The destination preferences show up click and drag any of these thumbnails into the left box.
I'll just add this Vimeo thumbnail. I'll click cancel because I really don't need to get into my Vimeo account. You can see it's in my destination selection. I'll go ahead and close this box. When I click the Share button again Vimeo will show up in the drop down menu and that's because we added this in the preferences so you can always add any of the other options if that helps you export faster. I'll use this option Save Current frame.
If I want to save a still image and upload that as my YouTube thumbnail. Go ahead and select that you can see over here I can change the name of the file, click on settings so I can show you the export options. Right now it's set to jpg, but sometimes I might need to export it as a PNG or TIFF file, go ahead and click Next and save your current frame. Don't forget on the top left you can see your current progress. So I'm going to click on the task button to see I was doing when it's done. exporting a pop up will show up on the top right so I'll click on show Final Cut Pro will show me exactly where my file is saved so I can click on it and hit spacebar to view it.
I'll close these boxes over here so I can clean up my window. That's pretty much it for now. But my next video will show you my completed work and I got a challenge for you. So let's wrap this up.