• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Quick Time curiosity….

  Posted by Evan Fitzer on January 22, 2008 at 12:29 am

  Hello:
  If I render from my DV timeline a QT Movie, it plays back great on my FCP 2.0 system at home. Now, when I take that same QT movie to work (I work in Television as a commercial production editor) and play it on my PC through Quicktime, it looks just terrible, all fuzzy and blown up. And if I attempt to export it into my dpsVelocity HD system it also looks terrible as well. However, if I simply re-name that QT file with a .mpeg extension on the desktop, all of the sudden it looks fantastic playing through Media player and looks great when imported into my Velocity system. For my own personal knowledge base, can someone tell me what’s going on here. Why does simply changing the file extension change the video quality so greatly. And is there anything I should do differently to avoid this workaround. Thanx in advance for alleviating my curiosity.
  Evan Fitzer
  Kamloops, BC, Cdn.
  FCP 2.0 – Mac OSX-Tiger – 2.66 MacPro – 4gigs mem

  Evan Fitzer replied 18 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Russell Lasson

  January 22, 2008 at 1:22 am

  I think it probably has something with QuickTime reading the file as High Quality Video. When you have the file open in QT and if it looks bad, open the visual settings in the menu, then select the video track and make sure that High Quality Video is selected.

  Did that fix it?

  -Russ

  Russell Lasson
  Kaleidoscope Pictures
  Provo, UT
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  Evan Fitzer

  January 22, 2008 at 3:14 am

  Hi Russ:
  I’m back at home right now, I’ll try this first thing in the morning when I get into work. Thanks
  Evan

  Evan Fitzer
  Kamloops, BC

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