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Export Quicktime Movie
So… My work is needing me to prepare a few videos for slideshow/dvd use, which I have never really done before, strictly web videos prior. I am trying to figure out how to get it to come out looking as good as possible, and seem to be having some severe issues.
I read that Export Quicktime Movie should give me lossless quality, while Quicktime conversion compresses the footage, which I use normally.
However, it seems that whenever I try to export quicktime movie to get a viewable on a TV screen quality, it looks terrible, with artifacting and fuzz and whatnot, alongside being whoppingly huge files. When I compare what the exatct same timeline spits out (Conversion/Movie) the qT conversion looks infinately better and sharper, and is a fraction of the size… What am I missing here?
Thanks
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Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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[Matt Sepeta] “I read that Export Quicktime Movie should give me lossless quality, while Quicktime conversion compresses the footage, which I use normally. “
Export QT will let you export without re-compressing from FC, as far as your sequence won’t need to be rendered.
QT Conversion will always make you re-compress even if your sequence don’t need to be rendered.
QT Player don’t recompress only when you use the “Save AS..” function.
Whenever you “Export” there is recompression, even if you export to the same codec/size/etc.
Rafael -
Ok, let me re-phrase this-
I need a finished video file that is high enough quality to be projected onto a pretty big screen in a powerpoint presentation. How should I go about exporting the timeline, as far as settings, codecs, etc are concerned?
I know this sounds pretty rudimentary, but I have never had to bother over creating high quality videos, only straight to web things.
The link is a screenshot of the same exact timeline exported out in the two different ways, Quicktime movie (on the left), and quicktime conversion set for Broadband – High (On the right)
I do not understand why he compressed web video looks twice as good and is wayyyyyyy smaller in file size.
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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Hi Matt,
What kind of footage are you using?
Which are your sequence setting?
rafael -
Im using the preset settings, and working with miniDV footage captured via firewire.
-Matt S
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Hi Matt,
Here there is something wrong.
You say that you are getting very different file sizes while exporting with the two different method.
This shouldn’t be so.
Open with QT Player the two clips that you have exported. Comm-I and have a look to the codec, the size and the data-rate.
Rafael -
did this:
Quicktime Movie: datarate 17 mbitsps Apple intermediate codec
Quicktime conversion: datarate: 357.44 mbitsps h.263 codec
Why on earth the huge gap between datarates? Does it have to do simply with the codec?
Thanks
24″ Imac | 2.8 ghz duo | 4 gb
Mac Book | 2.2 ghz | 2 gb
pscs4 | idcs3 | macromedia suite 2004 | fcp5
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[Matt Sepeta] “Quicktime Movie: datarate 17 mbitsps Apple intermediate codec
Quicktime conversion: datarate: 357.44 mbitsps h.263 codec
Why on earth the huge gap between datarates? Does it have to do simply with the codec?
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Absolutely. You are comparing an almost uncompressed with a high compression codec.
rafael(and here some clips for the friends: https://www.vimeo.com/2694745 )
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