Bouncing the Video Track to a QuickTime Movie

When you have finished your final mix and synchronized your audio events to the movie, you can bounce the main video track (QuickTime or Avid video) and a mono or stereo mixdown of your session to a new QuickTime movie.

You can choose from a variety of standard QuickTime codecs, which are fully compatible with other QuickTime applications.

Because all formats and codecs have not been tested, you should verify the QuickTime movie bounced successfully.

Pro Tools cannot bounce audio or video to an MPEG-2 video file.

To bounce video and audio in the video track to a QuickTime movie:

1 Finalize your mix.

2 Make sure the video track you want to bounce is currently the main video track. (The track’s Video Online button must be highlighted blue.)

3 Make sure that all of the audio tracks you want to include in the bounce are audible (not muted or inactive).

4 Assign the output of each of the tracks you want to include in your bounce to the same stereo output or bus path.

5 Do one of the following:

To bounce the entire session, click Return to Zero in the Transport window to go to the beginning of the session.

– or – 

To bounce a portion of the session, enable Options > Link Timeline and Edit Selection, and make a selection in the Edit window or the Timeline.

6 Choose File > Bounce to > QuickTime Movie.

The Bounce dialog appears (if you are bouncing QuickTime movies) or the Bounce to QuickTime dialog appears (if you are bouncing Avid video to QuickTime movies).

7 Select your mix’s output or bus path from the Bounce Source selector.

8 If you are bouncing Avid to QuickTime and you want to configure QuickTime video settings, click Options.

9 Configure other settings as appropriate.

Pro Tools is qualified to bounce to QuickTime DV25. Bouncing to other formats is has not been qualified.

See Apple documentation for detailed information on configuring QuickTime movie settings.

10 Click Bounce.

11 Select a destination for the new QuickTime movie, enter a new name, and click Save.

Bouncing video may take quite a bit longer than real-time, depending on the format of the source video, the format of the bounced video, and processing speed.