Output “photo-jpeg” setup help.

[Mark Fogarty]

Danny

Photo-JPEG is a type of QuickTime movie. In the render queue click the “link” to the right of the Output Module dropdown… this will take you to the Output Module settings. In the Format dropdown select QuickTime Movie… then click “Format Options” in the Video Output section. Once there you will select Photo-JPEG in the compression type drop down. It is also here where you set the quality number by using the slider at the bottom.

Also, if your video has audio make sure you check the Audio Output box in the Output Module Settings.

Finally… if you plan on exporting to Photo-JPEG often I would recommend you create a custom template and then make it the default export settings for your render queue… it will save you time.

To do that just select “Make Template” in the Output Module dropdown in the render queue… give your template a name and click “Edit” to do the settings you want. Finally, at the top of the Output Module Templates screen you can choose your newly named template at the “Movie default”.

Hope this helps.

Mark Fogarty
Media Missionary
Muddy River Media
http://www.MuddyRiverMedia.org

[Danny Winn]

Hey hey, Thanks Mark!

I thought I had tried something like that but then after clicking the “ok” button it still read “based on lossless”.

But I will do all that tonight when I get home. I can’t thank you enough,

Thanks Mark

[Mark Fogarty]

Danny

yeah… it can be kinda confusing because when you went in and made the changes the Output Module will now say “based on whatever the default was” that you made the changes to, even though it no longer has any similarity to the original settings.

If you make a new template and make that new template the default movie render settings, than when you add to the render queue you won’t see that.

Mark

Mark Fogarty
Media Missionary
Muddy River Media
http://www.MuddyRiverMedia.org

[Danny Winn]

Alright Mark,

That did work but it is a little to jerky (Kind of shutter speed look) for a television commercial. Any suggestions for what the most popular output should be for an HD TV commercial? Avi looks beautiful but they wont play unless you create a playable DVD due to the high bit rate, Mp2 has problems as well.

What do the pros output to for commercial HD?

Thanks again;)

[Mark Fogarty]

I’m surprised that the Photo-JPEG file isn’t playing smoothly… are you able to try it on another machine. I would also consider raising the quality from 75 to perhaps 85-95 and see what happens. Don’t waste your hard drive space by putting it to 100 though, all you will get is a huge file with no difference in quality. It will create a video with 4:4:4 color space even though the original was probably 4:1:1 or 4:2:0 or some such thing.

I do wonder, though, if Photo-JPEG is the best format to provide an HD commerical to somebody. My immediate thought would be to provide a QuickTime with Animation compression… this is loseless and will give the people a high quality file which they convert to whatever works best for them.

I would also ask the people who you will be providing the commercial to what specs they want the video in.

Sorry I couldn’t be much help here… I can’t say I’ve done any HD commericals. I’m just surprised you haven’t been given specific details on the file type and compression that is required.

Mark Fogarty
Media Missionary
Muddy River Media
http://www.MuddyRiverMedia.org

[Danny Winn]

Ok Mark, I found some stuff out.

The jittery (Shutter speed) look is being caused only when I check the “stretch” box and uncheck the “maintain 4.3” box, the audio is also slightly out of sync. See, I want to maintain the original 1440×1080 widescreen look. The Quicktime looks and plays beutifully if I don’t check the stretch box butten but then it looks more 4.3 and is squeezed (I’m sure you know the pixel dimention variables that cause this).

I have also tried placing the footage into a 1920×1080 comp to combat this problem but to no avail. I also tried selecting the “HDTV 1080 24” in the Custom dropdown menu when clicking stretch.

The clips end up being 30MB’s and is only 3 seconds long.

After at least 25 different attemps and settings, I just can’t seem to find an output setting that maintains the full 1440×1080/1920×1080 widescreen look that doesn’t have that jittery off audio look.

Maybe you can spot my problem, I should have told you about the full widescreen look before, haha, Thanks for staying with me.

Danny