Exporting widescreen Quicktime problems…

[Stuart Samuels]

Ha, ok. I’ll get experimenting with the MPEG 2 settings now!

Would the correct H.246 settings be similar to what you have discussed earlier?

Is there a website with all of this info compiled somewhere!? If not then there’ a definite gap in the market!

[Jeff Pulera]

Well don’t “experiment” too much with MPEG-2 settings – DVD is an official specification with narrow parameters, so you can’t burn just any MPEG-2 file to a DVD. As mentioned, choose an “MPEG-2 for DVD” preset, and for a beginner, the data rate is about the only thing you should touch. That’s another story in itself, figuring out the correct data rate!

Regarding the H.264 clip, where is it going? You’d probably want something smaller than the 1024×576 for the web, and for data rate, use short samples and experiment to find a happy medium of quality and file size that suits you.

Jeff

[Stuart Samuels]

The clip will go to YouTube and Vimeo initially but the quality needs to be as high as possible really as it’s a showreel for a budding actor.

Thanks for your time and patience Jeff, you’ve really helped me out and though I’ve still got a way to go, I think I’ll be able to sleep tonight now! Much appreciated.

Stuart.