• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Best QT exports and Compressor settings

  Posted by John Doggett-williams on January 16, 2010 at 4:40 am

  Hi,

  I’m trying to find the best quality but smallest file size option when exporting to QT. Lately I’ve been capturing and finishing in HDV 1080/50i and when exporting I do a QT conversion with the settings adjusted to reflect that – the quality is good but the files are quite large. Would I lose quality if I kept the H.264 setting or exported them in a different format say dvcam?

  These files are then converted in Compressor where even mpeg 2 or 4 doesn’t make them small enough.

  The final destination for these files is broadcast TV. I FTP them to a site but the transfer rate is about a meg a minute so every meg counts.

  Thanks,

  John

  John doggett-williams

  John Doggett-williams replied 16 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Michael Gissing

  January 16, 2010 at 7:38 am

  Firstly DV codec and HDV have the same data rate so you would be losing a lot of quality without reducing the file size.

  Broadcasters mostly use mpeg2, particularly for SD broadcast. You should find out what the broadcasters will accept and use Compressor to create a file to their specs. mpeg2 & mpeg4 are as small as you will get for broadcast files and this approach will make for the absolute minimum in file transcoding. (Mpeg4 is the same as H264)
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  John Doggett-williams

  January 17, 2010 at 9:20 am

  Thanks Michael, much appreciated.

  John doggett-williams

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