export settings

[Joshua Earles-bennett]

I like Quicktime H264. It’s a good size and is very clean.

[Ruby Gold]

Thanks for the response, but because the client will be editing this footage, I don’t want to step on it–hence the uncompressed video setting.

After exporting though, I noticed two things–one is that the video was distorted–too wide, and the second is that it wouldn’t play back in the QT viewer or PPro without stuttering badly. I tried exporting with “square pixels” rather than my usual 0.9, and that fixed the distortion, but I’m wondering why it’s stuttering. Doesn’t do so when I export without compression as an avi.

Should I export as square pixels or .9 and any explanation for the stuttering?

thanks-

[Blast1]

The best thing is to ask the person who is going to edit the QT what they perfer as a format, if they don’t have a choice you can use none or sometimes I use Planar RGB, don’t recompress as it can add artifacts and also keep the 720×480 with the .9 aspect ratio.

If you are working in DV AVI its best to export to the same, unless you need VFW, also don’t recompress.

[Blast1]

>any explanation for the stuttering?< What kind of format does your original audio files have? for DV its usually 48khz, 16bit uncompressed .wav, 1 frame interweave, use the same for the QT audio

[Hector Melendez]

Why not you give to your customer the Mini DV raw? Can’t be more “clean”