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Exported AVI issue with quality of playback in QT
After exporting a sequence as an avi to then encode in QT Pro 7 (as I read somewhere the codec was better than Premiere’s) I was puzzled to find that when I open the AVI up in QT the resolution looks pretty bad like it had been compressed. I then opened it up in media player and the reolution was fine.
Does anyone know why there is this difference between QT and media player and whether this affects my subsequent encoding of the avi into QT for the web?
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3 Replies
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Loucar,
Using the QuickTime Pro player open the file properties window (ctrl+j). Select the video track in the left dropdown and Quality from the right dropdown. Check the “High Quality Enabled” option and marvel at the improvment. Keeping this setting on for this file requires you save it.
If you are using QT to encode to some other format this option does not really need to be on – full quality will be used no matter how this option is set. This option is a player “feature” that is probably left over from the days of less powerful computers that had a hard time playing high quality without dropping frames.
What are you going to be transcoding the file to?
Dave
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Hi Dave, thanks a lot for that. Its not really that obvious especially when these days it doesn’t seem necessary (especially as its the latest QT version). Anyway I’m transcoding into QT for the web.
Cheers again!
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[Loucar] “I’m transcoding into QT for the web”
I’d like to suggest that try exporting a little something in Windows Media too just to compare quality. Do your test so that each export, QT and WM, is the same screen size and overall bitrate. I’d be interested to hear what you think.
Dave
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