Creating MOV for broadcast

[Alan Lacey]

This is EXACTLY what happened to me with DV movs and FCP.

QT player made a real hash of it but playing the same file in FCP ,or on the timeline, looked perfect.

Took me ages to puzzle that you have to set the properties of the individual mov to play full resolution.

I’m not with my Mac at the moment so can’t give you blow by blow instructions of how to do it and I don’t use movs enough to remember off hand, sorry.

Alan

[Alan Lacey]

Found this on the QT website, it’s the ‘use high quality video settings when available, that’s the one to set

Alan
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QT—- Changing Playback Preferences

You can change playback preferences by choosing QuickTime Player > Preferences. The available options include:

Open movies in new players: Select to open movies in a new player window; deselect to replace the movie in the current player window with the new movie.
Automatically play movies when opened: Select to make all movies start playing when they’re opened; deselect to have the movie start when you click the Play button.
Use high-quality video settings when available: When this option is selected, video looks sharper and smoother, but more processor capacity is used.
Play sound in frontmost player only: Select to play the audio for only one QuickTime Player window (the active window); deselect to play the sound of all playing movies simultaneously.
Play sound when application is in background: Select to play audio even if QuickTime is not the frontmost application; deselect to mute the audio when QuickTime is not the active application.
Show equalizer: Select or deselect to show or hide the equalizer (which shows the presence of audio) in the QuickTime Player window.
Show Content Guide automatically: Select to see the latest content listings when QuickTime Player first opens (unless you open a specific movie file).
Pause movie before switching users: Select to automatically pause a movie when you use fast user switching to let another person use your computer.
Hide selection indicators for empty selection. Select to have the selection indicators in the timeline removed when no frames are selected.

[Alan Lacey]

So it’s a player setting, not a file setting as I thought. It appears that the default (for QT7 anyway) is off. ie play at low quality.

Alan