Exporting My video to .mov – really bad quality

[Vince Becquiot]

For the best Quicktime quality (Quite a large size).

Choose export> Movie

In settings > General (left tab) Choose file type: Quicktime

Under Video (Left tab), choose compressor: animation. Quality 100%

Cheers,

Vince

[Dave Friend]

Nico,

When viewing a mov file using the QuickTime player be sure to set the movie’s properties to use “High Quality Enabled”. Often the file will look horrible but it is only due to this setting of the player.

Hope this helps.

Dave

[Nicotone.com]

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the help. I have managed to create a .mov file from the File>Export>Movie menu.

Although it is a really … really … really large file that is created. Unfortunately if I export the whole sequence, which is about 6 minutes long the export completes but with no file. I can’t find it. So I tried just 1 minute and it created a .mov file (great quality but 1.6gb in size).

Is this right? I’ve tried the quality at 75% and 50% set on Animation, but the export of the whole sequence still has the end exported .mov file missing. Are there any other settings you would reccommend?

Thanks again,
Cheers,
Nick

If life serves you lemons, make lemonade!

[Dave Friend]

[nicotone.com] “Is this right?”

Yup, sounds about right. The Animation codec is pretty close to uncompressed and carries an alpha channel to boot. An hour long segment would probably run well over 72GB.

What format is the project set for? Is this a DV project? You should be able to get a good quality DV format quicktime from a PPro project that is set for DV format.

Dave

[Nicotone.com]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion.

If I’ve read your reply correctly – I’ll try exporting it to .mov using the ‘DV Pal’ setting.

Just to confirm, I’ll do this by going File>Export>Movie >> Quciktime>> DVPal Format. The project was set up as a DV Pal (I’m based in the UK)

I’ll have to leave it over time exporting as it takes a little while. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Thanks again,
Nick

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[Nicotone.com]

In the above thread – “over time” should have read “over night”

Cheers

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[Mbelli]

I haven’t been very impressed with Adobe Media Encoder’s output to Quicktime. In addition to taking a long time to encode I find it buggy and of inferior quality. Luckily I have Canopus Procoder which does a much better job with Quicktime.

In regards to PP2 and WMV or FLASH, I’ve found both to be of really good quality and encoding time is pretty close to what I get with Procoder. MPEG-1 is also very good but MPEG-2 is average, especially with material which has a lot of subject or camera movement. Procoder MPEG-2 is clearly superior especially at very low bitrates.

Anyhow, those are my personal observations, others here might have had different results. Maybe Adobe will clean up it’s act in regards to Quicktime next PP update, I wouldn’t t put much faith on it at the moment.

**** ALSO, don’t forget to enable the deinterlacing checkbox on the top right befofe encoding, it yields better quality and far sharper encodes.

[Nicotone.com]

Hi Guys,

Thanks mbelli for the Procoder recommendation, I’ve downloaded the demo and will give it a go.

However I think I found a solution – Hoorraaaa!

I did the following:
File > Export > Adobe Media Encoder >> QuickTime >> Apple DV – PAL (codec)
This created 7 quicktime files all set for different modem speeds.
The files ranged from ‘1 Mbps Cable.mov’ (34mb in size) to ’56 Kbps Modem ISDN.mov'(1.1 mb in size).

The quality was the bet I’ve seen so far and didn’t explode in size e.g. 1.5gb, which I was getting before.

The only thing I couldn’t figure out, was that the files were saved in my top level :C drive, and not in the folder I thought I saved it in. Oh well!?!

Hope that helps anyone doing the same stuff.

I’ll give Procoder a demo as it talked about being able to act as a plug-in in PremPro and may give even better results?

Cheers everyone,
Nick

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