Is it me or is Quicktime h.264 rubbish;)

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

I stopped using Quicktime H.264 three years ago for this vary reason.

Way back in CS3 it worked… I don’t know when or why things went south.

If they MUST have a Quicktime and it MUST be H.264 then I think your only option is to push up the data rate till the image doen’t look bad.

Try 25Mb/s and see if that works.

[Tim Kolb]

[John-Michael Seng-Wheeler] “Way back in CS3 it worked… I don’t know when or why things went south. “

I think the main issue is that while the rest of the universe was working to advance their software, QuickTime was left to go to seed…

MP4s play in QuickTime on Macs last I knew…are there web applications where a “mov” wrapper is mandatory?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

[Tim Kolb] “I think the main issue is that while the rest of the universe was working to advance their software, QuickTime was left to go to seed…
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That is defiantly true, but in this case there was a very noticeable drop in quality.

I jumped from CS3 to CS5 and at the same time switched computers. (both were windows.)

The exact settings I’d used before (usually 5Mb/s) were suddenly producing complete crap.

[Tim Kolb]

[John-Michael Seng-Wheeler] “I jumped from CS3 to CS5 and at the same time switched computers. (both were windows.)

The exact settings I’d used before (usually 5Mb/s) were suddenly producing complete crap.”

Yeah…that was the Adobe jump from 32 bit to 64 bit…and of course QT stayed where it was, so Adobe had to develop that QT32server app to try to be able to even use it…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[John-michael Seng-wheeler]

My personal guess is that it was actually the jump from XP to Windows 7. Apple didn’t bother making a decent version of Quicktime for Win 7.

[Tim Kolb]

[John-Michael Seng-Wheeler] “My personal guess is that it was actually the jump from XP to Windows 7. Apple didn’t bother making a decent version of Quicktime for Win 7.”

Assuming you weren’t running XP 64, the OS took that same 32 to 64 bit jump then…the same as I did. Few of my hardware drivers were even released for Vista.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Ivan Myles]

[Ben Edwards] “the problem is when there is a lot of movement and a lot of detail it does not look good/is blury”

Try unconstrained bitrate and Quality=100. If that doesn’t work, generate an intermediate file and encode with QuickTime Pro at max settings.

[Gene Weglarz]

I’ve been using Premiere Pro for years; back to version 1.5. The comments are all correct. I try to never use the Quicktime h.264 codec. When I do, I have to bump it to somewhere between 18Mbs and 25Mbs. Makes a large file and not good for streaming, but the quality is OK.

[Paul Jay]

Just create a full quality MP4 and rename it to *.MOV

It really doesn’t matter with H264 as a codec.

MP4 or MOV is just a container.

[Larry Asbell]

Have you tried the x264 codec?