How to export XDCAM HD422 quicktime as “Best” quality?

[John Pale]

The data rate for that format is fixed. The quality slider has no effect, so it defaults to medium. Ignore it.

[Robert Combs]

Hi John and thanks for your reply.

Is this to say that “medium” quality is the best that I can hope for? Or, are you saying that the “medium” label is ambiguous and doesn’t really mean anything?

I ask this because I’ve noticed a quality difference… I originally “write to device” from my Avid to a rented XDCAM HD deck and then pulled the footage from the XDCAM deck/disk to my computer’s desktop using the XDCAM Transfer software and the resulting Quicktime movie definitely looked better than when I simply exported from Avid to my desktop simply using Avid’s export command and this “medium” limited Quicktime codec.

Now, the rental deck is gone and I want to pull a couple of revised sequences from my Avid for a new client approval DVD. I just wanted them to look as good as the other ones. What gives? Why am I just limited to “medium” and is there any way of fooling the Avid into thinking a computer folder is an XDCAM device?

Thanks,
Rob

[John Pale]

[Robert Combs] “Is this to say that “medium” quality is the best that I can hope for? Or, are you saying that the “medium” label is ambiguous and doesn’t really mean anything?
“

The medium label doesnt mean anything. XDCAM (50mbs) is always the same bit rate. It is not user adjustable. The slider is NON FUNCTIONAL in that codec. This is true for many codecs.

[John Pale]

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