Creative Communities of the World Forums

The peer to peer support community for media production professionals.

Activity › Forums › Compression Techniques › Grainy text once Compressed

  • Compression Techniques

    Grainy text once Compressed

    Posted by Chad Lawson on February 14, 2011 at 5:02 am

    Relatively newbie to FCP so thank you for any help.

    Exported FCP (ProRes 422) to Quicktime (2.88 GB 1920×1080 3mins). Used the “Share YouTube” template on compressor. Template exported it to 1280×720 172 MB .mov file. Size is fine, that’s not the issue.

    However the text now has a slight grainy-ness to it. Any suggestions on the Compressor setting?

    Also, any suggestions on which template to take the large file down to an email-able size without it looking like an etch-a-sketch?

    Thank you so much for your help. REALLY appreciate it.

    Jeff Greenberg replied 15 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
  • 1 Reply

  • Jeff Greenberg

    February 14, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Don’t export to QuickTime. Just send directly to Compressor for the highest quality.

    Your data rate for 3 min needs to be around 425-450 with an h.264 setting. Figure scaling it down to 640×360, or 320×180.

    Best,

    Jeff G

    Apple Master Trainer
    Avid Cert. Instructor DS/MC
    Avid & Color Videos Vasst.com
    Compressor Essentials Lynda.com

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up

We use anonymous cookies to give you the best experience we can.
Our Privacy policy | GDPR Policy