• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Best Quality for Exporting

  Posted by Wendy Rowland on October 21, 2009 at 2:45 pm

  Hi there,

  I need to export a 5 minute video for an awards dinner. I have a feeling they are going make it a part of a powerpoint show. They have asked for a file that is between 2 MB and 20 MB (!).

  I have been trying various exports through compressor and through QT movie conversion and haven’t been pleased with the results.

  If I export as a Quicktime Movie it looks great, the aspect ratio is correct and the file size is just over 1 GB.

  So now I want to export a much smaller file while keeping as much quality as possible. One thing that keeps happening is that I lose the 16:9 and the images are stretched.

  Any suggestions are very welcome.
  Details: shot on HDV (NTSC), 1080i, 30p, 16:9
  Editing with FCP 6

  Thanks. Wendy

  Rafael Amador replied 16 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Rafael Amador

  October 21, 2009 at 3:25 pm

  Hi Wendy,
  Export with QT Conversion, or better with Compressor.
  Try H264.
  Reduce the size to 640x 360.
  Key Frameas: Automatic
  Set Limit data rate 400 Kbps.
  Field Reorder. Double pass.
  Set the audio AAC 96Kbps.
  Rafael

  http://www.nagavideo.com

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