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Best QT exports and Compressor settings
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
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2 Replies
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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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Thanks Michael, much appreciated.
John doggett-williams
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