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Poor Quality QuickTime DV-NTSC output
I need to submit a 3D animation in QuickTime DV-NTSC format (720×480, 30 fps), but I can’t seem to get decent quality out of Premiere.
My 3D software can save the animated clips as uncompressed AVIs or sequentially numbered Targa or TIFF files. The quality is razor-sharp.
After editing in Premiere I can save in various formats (including AVI, WMV and Apple Animation) and keep that excellent quality, but not with QuickTime DV-NTSC. Unfortunately this is the format I need.
Suggestions?
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6 Replies
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Did you go to QT player preferences and set the quality to high ?
Vince
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BTW, DV and motion graphics / animation aren’t meant to be mixed. DV is meant to compress video out of a camcorder, and that’s about it.
5:1 compression on animation is always going to look pretty ugly.
Cheers,
Vince
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For Quicktime, you are better off getting Sorenson Squeeze so that you have access to the Pro codec.
Steven
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Wow… that fixed it. Thanks, Vincent!
I assumed the problem was with Premiere, not a simple setting in the QuickTime player.
I suppose there are better codecs for animation, but this is for a contest and the rules require QuickTime DV-NTSC. I guess that makes it easier for them to produce a compilation DVD from all the entries.
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[Kevin Thorp] ” need to submit a 3D animation in QuickTime DV-NTSC format (720×480, 30 fps), but I can’t seem to get decent quality out of Premiere.
My 3D software can save the animated clips as uncompressed AVIs or sequentially numbered Targa or TIFF files. The quality is razor-sharp.”If you are trying to view NTSC video on a computer monitor it will not look too good, Particularly fullscreen, you are dealing with a format best viewed on a external NTSC video monitor at the optimum viewing distance for the monitor size.
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What confused me was the other QuickTime codecs played back fine, but not DV-NTSC. Until I took Vincent’s advice & changed the player’s settings.
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