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Exported Quicktime looks terrible
Hi, guys and gals –
I have discovered what seems to be a bizarre situation with regard to exporting of Quicktime movies from FCP 5.
When I export as a Quicktime movie, without using Compressor or, say, the Sorenson Codec, the video which I either play on my computer or import into DVD Studio Pro looks awful. A guru friend pointed out to me that I have to go into the Quicktime Player, open the “Movie Properties” window, select the “video track” and then the “visual settings” tab, wherein I check the small “High Quality” box in the lower right hand corner. Then, closing the movie, I am prompted to save it as a high quality movie. It then has full resolution and looks great (if I do say so myself.)
If I do not do this process, I am unable, without going to Sorenson or Compressor, to make my movies imported into DVD Studio Pro look good, either o a computer on on an NTSC monitor.
Am I missing a preference in FCP? Has something changed? This never used to be the situation. I find it hard to believe that FCP would export low res files as a default.
So, I’m on a dual G5 running 10.4.2 with FCP 5.0.2, etc. All the latest upgrades. Anyone have any ideas?
Scott
Scott Gibbs
Quadrant Productions, Inc.
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It’s normal, and has been this way for a long time. The video is playing back at a lower quality, but contains all the resolution that you started with when you choose file/export QuickTime movie… In fact if it’s not self contained, it’s the exact same media you’ve been working with in FCP to create your masterpiece. If you export this file to DVD SP, compress it there and burn a DVD, you gain nada by going thru the motions of opening it in QT and turning on the high quality playback.
Jerry
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Hi, Jerry –
Thanks for your post. I would have agreed with you but for the fact that when I export to DVD Studio Pro and look at the video (which I have NOT opened in QT Player and turned on the full res), both on the computer before encoding and through an external DVD player to an NTSC monitor, the video is showing me just the low res version, not the full res version that I would have expected.
I’ll test this all again to see if I’m just suffering from ESO (Equipment smarter than operator) or if I have what may be a unique problem. I’ll let you know.
Scott
Scott Gibbs
Quadrant Productions, Inc.
(510) 521-5474 -
Hi,
Yesterday I exported my project file to mpeg2 with FCP internal export “using quicktime conversion”.
My compressor application is corrupted after upgrading to FCP Studio 🙁
I burned it to DVD with DVD Studio Pro and quality is low in my opinion.
I definitely checked highest quality settings before exporting but it still looks worse than video played back from my timeline. Lacks contrast and somehow blacks are washed out.
Tomorrow I need to reinstall all applications and definitely I will use Compressor next time. It is big difference in quality in my opinion.Mariusz
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