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output question for plasma tv loop
hello all,
I am currently finishing up a project and have a question about the best way to output it. I searched common questions but didn’t find a post that related exactly.The project is going to be 6 minutes long and will be viewed on a 42″ HD Widesreen Plasma that is run off of a centrally located pc. I have created my composition in a widescreen format at 1280×720. I don’t have any additional output software and can only afford to purchase a moderately priced title. The computer has a dvd player but I would feel more comfortable copying the file directly to the computer. Any suggestions as they best way to output/save the project and compress to view completely full screen and run (not choppy) off of the computer? I’m not concerned if the final isn’t true HD but I would like it to look clean and clear.
If you need any more info to get the best response please let me know.
I appreciate any feedback you can offer.
Sincerely,
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QuickTime Player should be able to handle running full screen video as long as the data rate isn’t too high and you’re not using some crazy codec like DivX =\
I’d say that QuickTime Photo JPEG is your best bet for reliably smooth and high quality video playback. You will end up with a fairly large file with this codec but it should be significantly smaller than uncompressed video and run a lot smoother.
Also, if you select your video track in the Movie Properties window (ctrl-J/cmd-J) and go to ‘Other Settings’ you can tell QT Player to preload the track into RAM and cache it for looping… I’m not sure if this is available outside of QT Pro, but you should have QT Pro anyway =) Also, if the file is large this may result in degraded performance as QT may not have enough memory to load the entire file into RAM. I haven’t played with these features very much, so if anyone else knows optimal settings lets hope they chime in =)
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