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Best Settings For Quicktime Fullscreen Playback
I am having lots of trouble balancing quality, filesize, and smooth playback. I have created a 5 minute video in After Effects for a client. They will be playing the content back on a mac mini connected via DVi to a 20″ studio monitor. They have Quicktime Pro loaded and a DVD drive. I am going to provide the conent two ways. The first way is DVD. The second way is as a file that they can playback through quicktime fullscreen and looping. They would prefer to playback with quicktime, otherwise I would just go the DVD route. The DVD is just a back-up plan. I am not sure what resolution to use because the client has already shipped the hardware. I have looked at the mac mini specs and it uses an ATI 9200. I believe I need to match that unkown resolution. Are there any mac owners out there with the 20″ studio display that can tell me what that res is?
I have not been able to get a quality file encoded that will playback smoothly. Either the file is too big and stutters or the text and graphics are grainy and really ugly.
Can anyone offer me any words or advice, wisdom, or suggestions. Even a few kind words are welcome as, I have been going crazy trying to get this right.
Thanks in advance. I really appreciate the help.
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I compress video with sorenson squeeze, which you can tweak a lot for your needs. you can see an example of it in my video tutorial here at the cow, and this has been scrunched down a bunch to play on the internet:
https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?page=/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/old_tv/index.html
Again, this was really dumbed down in quality for the web. Keep something in mind – no matter what you do, there will ALWAYS be compression artifacts, unless you go uncompressed. Of course, that means you will have a hard time with playback, and so you probbly need to put that to tape.
Between quality and the assurance of smooth playback, DVD is probably your best option. Just make sure to render the DVD video with AE’s best DVD quality settings. It makes the file a lot larger, but it’s worth it.
Dell’s 20 inch monitors seem to have a max resolution of 1600×1200.
Also I imagine that resolution depends on if this is widescreen or not.
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