• Avid Media Composer

  Export QT in Apple DV Codec

  Posted by David Massachi on August 2, 2006 at 3:00 pm

  I am trying to export a quicktime movie from my 24p NTSC project. The sound editors require a quicktime in DV codec for a visual reference. When I export from the Avid, my quicktime movies always come out with extra horizontal lines in the image. It looks a little like the scan lines in the image are all screwed up. I’m viewing this on a computer display. When I export a quicktime “Same as Source”, I get no additional horizontal lines. The image of the quicktime looks clean and just as good as in Xpress Pro.

  1. What is the resolution of Avid’s 14:1p OMF codec? Is it 720 X 486? What is the field-dominance? Is that causing some kind of incompatibility with the Apple DV NTSC codec, which is 720 X 480, lower field first?

  2. Can you recommend any work arounds to get a DV codec movie to give to the sound editors?

  My system:

  Mac Dual 1.8 GHz G5
  2 GB of RAM
  Mac OS X v 10.4.3
  Avid Xpress Pro v. 4.8.2.2640
  Avid Mojo
  QuickTime Pro v. 7.0.3
  24p NTSC Avid Film Project using 14:1 Avid Compression
  Avid Unity Media Storage
  Digitizing on separate workstation: Avid MC Adrenaline on Windows platform

  massachi

  David Massachi replied 19 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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