Quality of an mp4 is different than an mov?

[Daniel Low]

I’m sorry, that was a typo, I meant H.264, not H.263.

However it seems compressor isn’t up to the task, like I said I don;t use it anymore so I can;t verify this article:
https://www.dallasfcpug.org/2008/06/02/h264-anyone/

You may find this useful:
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/h264.html

and this
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor_h-264_movies_fcp.html

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[Danny Hays]

I don’t use Compressor but Vegas, Procoder and other converters have a H.264 preset for Ipods and Iphones. I make MP4s with Vegas and they look good on my Iphone. I also doownloaded a video of mine from you Tube and it looks great on my Iphone too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Eb0xhzslM
You can use Keepvid and save as flash or MP4.
Hope this helps Danny Hays

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[Rosa Linda román]

I know this thread is old, but David Green is asking the EXACT question I am looking for an answer to:

do you know how I can achieve an MPEG-4 pt. 10 file that has an mp4 file extension? Or, as you said above, an MP4 file that uses the H.264 codec?

I, too, am finding the .mov file to be so much better in quality than the MPEG-4 and can’t figure out which settings to use in Compressor to get the highest quality MPEG-4 possible. As it is I can’t stand to look at the degraded quality of the .mp4 file when compared to the .mov file.

The responses above offer the suggestion of using something other than Compressor (Vegas, I believe), but I am looking for a suggestion for sticking with Compressor itself.

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

[Christian Clark]

Did either of you figure this out, David or Rosa Linda?

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Christian H. Clark
City Limit Films
http://www.citylimitfilms.com

[Jason Castellani]

My exact question too with Compressor. I can’t seem to get an answer anywhere.

[Onur Yolalmis]

Hi, I’m having similar problems when converting mov to mp4.

I’m exporting my sequence from FCP(DV PAL, lower field first) to .mov (DV PAL 48 khz).The mov file looks fine but when i convert the mov file to mp4 (H264) the video is jittery on movements. When i put a deinterlace filter on my clips before exporting to mov, there’s no problem. but i lose a significant amount of quality. Does anyone else have this problem, thanks for the help..

Onur

[Craig Seeman]

Sigh! I wish you’d read the sticky at the top of this forum. We have no idea how you are creating the mp4. We’re faced with lots of back and forth questions or responses based wrong assumptions.

All I can say is use a good compression utility with a good deinterlacer. There are crappy deinterlacers or people who don’t know how to use the settings.

Telestream Episode has a good deinterlacer for example but you have to know how to use it.

You can create .mp4 in Compressor but you need to use one of the iOS presets, duplicate and modify the settings to your needs, deinterlace, change .m4v to .mp4 which you can do because they actually are the same metadata.

Really, please read the sticky otherwise I have no idea what your workflow is. I don’t even know how you’re checking the file let alone settings you’re using to encode them.

[Harry Miller]

Apparently it is a fact that Compressor is not good for encoding H.264 within the mp4 container.
I testet various settings, but the quality is not satisfying. Compared to Adobe Media Encoder, the Compressor mp4’s are larger in file size at the same target bitrate – at a definitely lower visible quality.
My verdict: forget Compressor for MP4, use Adobe Media Encoder.

[Craig Seeman]

Compressor doesn’t do H.264 .mp4 so I’m not sure what the basis is for your comments.
Compressor does .mov and .m4v (related to .mp4 but those settings don’t have user control).

[Harry Miller]

Craig, sorry, you’re absolutely right, thank you for the clarification:
Compressor cannot pack h.264 in the mp4 container. I simply did not imagine it could not – as this is the most important format for the HTML5 video standard (Internet Explorer does not play the mov-Container).