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    exporting “as” question

    Posted by David Wheeler on July 3, 2006 at 10:47 pm

    So far, in all my projects, i’ve been exporting my FCP movies as Quicktime movie (self-contained, no compression). I noticed that saving and exporting as MPEG-2 takes hours. Am i not choosing the highest level of quality for my projects by saving as Quicktime movie?

    thanks,

    David

    David Wheeler replied 19 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Shane Ross

    July 4, 2006 at 12:19 am

    If you save as a Quicktime Movie, Self Contained using sequence settings, you are exporting at the highest quality you can.

    MPEG-2 is HIGHLY compressed and complex, and that is why it takes so long to compress.

    Shane

    Alokut Productions
    http://www.lfhd.net

  • Michiel

    July 4, 2006 at 1:05 pm

    btw a “quicktime movie” can be anything from highly compressed to uncompressed. Quicktime is just the container, the quality depends on the compressor/codec you use to make the quicktime movie.

    mpeg2 is the standard compression format that is used for DVD.

  • David Wheeler

    July 4, 2006 at 11:32 pm

    Thank you Shane and Michiel.

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