Do one of the following:

• Select one or more projects or clips in the browser.

  Note: You can’t mix projects and clips in a batch share. Your selection must contain only projects or only clips. For more information, see About batch sharing.

• 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.

• Select one or more ranges in clips in the browser.

  For information about selecting multiple ranges, see Manage multiple range selections in event clips.

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 and performance.

Do one of the following:

• Choose File > Share > Export Image Sequence.

• Click the Share button in the toolbar, then click Export Image Sequence.

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.

  For more information, see View and change metadata shared with projects.

  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 files that will be exported, including frame size, frame rate, and output file type.

Click Settings to confirm the export settings or make any necessary adjustments:

• Export: Choose an output file type for the image sequence you’re exporting.

• Scale image to preserve aspect ratio: Leave this checkbox selected unless your project uses a non-square pixel format (such as 1440 x 1080) and you want to use the exported image sequence in another video project with the same non-square pixel properties.

• 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.

Click Next.

If you selected a single range, enter a name for the image sequence you’re sharing.

Choose a location for the exported files, then click Save.

The image sequence files are saved in a folder with the name you entered.