Share in email with Final Cut Pro

You can create an email message in the macOS Mail app and include your movie as an attachment.

In Final Cut Pro, do one of the following:
- Select a project or a clip in the browser.
- Select a range in a project in the timeline or in a clip in the browser.
  Note: To share just a portion of a project, you must make a range selection. A clip selection is not sufficient. You can use the I and O keys to set the range start and end points.
If you’re sharing a project that is set to use proxy media for playback, open it in the timeline, then click the View pop-up menu in the top-right corner of the viewer and choose Optimized/Original.
This ensures the highest quality in the exported file. When you choose this setting, Final Cut Pro uses optimized media to create the shared file. If optimized media doesn’t exist, the original media is used. For more information about optimized and proxy media, see Control playback quality in Final Cut Pro.
Do one of the following:
- Choose File > Share > Email.
- Click the Share button in the toolbar, then click Email.
Important: The Email destination doesn’t appear by default. To add it to your set of destinations and to the Share menu, choose File > Share > Add Destination, then double-click the Email destination. See Create share destinations in Final Cut Pro and Intro to Destinations preferences in Final Cut Pro.
In the Share window that appears, do any of the following:
- Move the pointer over the image to skim the video.
  If you’re batch sharing (exporting multiple items), the image is replaced by a list of the items you’re exporting.
- In the Info pane, view and modify project or clip attributes, such as the title and description.
  See Change metadata for shared items in Final Cut Pro. All of the attributes associated with the project or clip are included in the output file.
  Important: By default, the title field lists the project or clip name. Changing the title does not change the project or clip name, which is the name used for the exported file.
- At the bottom of the window, view information about the file that will be exported, including frame size and frame rate, audio channels and sample rate, duration, output file type, and file size.
Click Settings to confirm the settings and make any necessary adjustments:
- Resolution: Choose a frame size for your movie.
- Compression: Choose “Better quality” to maximize the quality. Choose “Faster encode” to speed up the encoding.
- Embed CEA-608: If you added captions to your project, you can choose a CEA-608 language version to embed in the output media file.
- Burn in captions: If you added captions to your project, you can choose a caption language to burn in to the output media file.
  Note: Burned-in captions are permanently visible in the output file and are not the same as embedded captions.
Important: Many email services limit the file size for attachments. If the message exceeds the maximum size allowed by your email provider, the message size in the macOS Mail app appears in red, along with the allowed limit (if the Mail app can retrieve that information from the email provider).
Click Share.
After transcoding is complete, the Mail app opens, and an email is created with the Subject field filled in and the movie attached.

You can monitor the progress of the transcode in the Background Tasks window, and you can continue to work in Final Cut Pro while the file is transcoded.

When transcoding is complete, a notification appears. You can view and locate shared projects in the Share inspector. See View the status of shared items in Final Cut Pro.

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