Export Quicktime Full Quality appears Poor

[Jerry Hofmann]

The quality of a no change setting self contained QT movie should be the same as you’d see with your sequence playing externally on a video monitor after a render. Is it?

Jerry

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[Joshua Lim]

hi jerry,

thanks for responding!

unfortunately, i don’t have an external monitor to view the movie.

however, when i view the movie on full screen mode in finalcut pro and later after the export on quicktime pro, the latter looks more grainy and words look blurry.

thanks,

joshua lim

[Kevin Monahan]

You don’t have a monitor? Then use a standard TV set. Surely, you have one of those.

If you want to see the high quality version of your video w/o monitoring properly, you’ll have to jump through a few hoops to see it on your computer desktop.

In QT:
Window>Show Movie Properties>(Click on the file in the dialog)>Choose “High Quality”.

Probably the #1 confustion in FCP-land can be avoided if you monitor your video using a proper setup with a video monitor (or at least a TV) attached to your system as you edit. Many people wrongly do not do this. It’s in the manual, however.

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[Joshua Lim]

thanks for your message!

i have a tv but i don’t have a miniDV pal camcorder to hook up my imac to the tv.

is the image seen on the desktop (in QT or finalcut pro) is usually a lower quality than what it actually is?

is it fair to export the movie in finalcut pro (via quicktime and NOT quicktime conversion) and use it as a full quality version of the film to give to a compositor? i.e. this method is no different from digitizing to a miniDV tape and passing it to the compositor.

really appreciate your insight, thanks a lot!

joshua lim