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Quicktime Movie Playback Nightmare. Please help!
Hello everyone!
I hope you can help me with this problem: I have a minute long Quicktime movie on my desktop and it plays fine. I transferred it to a CD-R Verbatim 52x 700MB and onto a DVD- 16x 700MB and the movie is there but it won’t play properly. The video gets stuck but the audio carries on, then the dialogue is out of synch with the speaker, the zooms are horribly jittery. It’s a mess! Ahhh!
I work on a G5 with Avid Xpress Pro. For the Export from the Avid, the following were selected:
Quick Time Movie
Use enabled tracks
Use Avid Codec
Custom
Video &Audio
768 x 576 size to fit
601 File Field Order Odd (upper Field…)
Display Aspect Ratio
768 x 576 (4×3 square pixel)
Movie settings
Video ‘Compression Sorenson Video3’
quality: best
Frame rate: 25
Sound M-Peg-4 Audio
Sample rate: 44.1khz (Actually, the audio setting in the project is 48khz so is this a problem?)
Sample rate 16
Channel 2
Prepare for internet streaming
Fast start
The file info for the quicktime movie is 318 MB on disk (333,487,038 bytes)
Is it the disk that’s too small 700MB because it seems that there is no space left on it even though the film is there in its entirety even though it plays back crazily….
Is it the Export settings which are to blame?
Or is it that the Quicktime Player’s settings are different and causing the prob: I can’t tell here, but this is what is ticked only:
General: Movies: open movies in new player
Sound: play sound in frontmost player only + play sound when application is in background + show graphic equalizer
Other: show content guide at startup + pause movies before switchng users + hide selection indicator 4 empty selection
Please help!!!! Thank you!
Aurora in rainy London (the weather doesn’t help when you’ve got problems!)
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5 Replies
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Have you tried transferring the movie to a different computer and playing it from the hard drive? Me thinks your problem is an issue with the speed of the drive and the size of the file…
BTW, I lived in ‘rainy’ England – the first summer was one of the hottest on record… Of course, 4 years later all was well with the world and we had one nice week in June….
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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Thank you for coming back to me. I am happy to see that it plays back now but there is still something dodgy: the quality of the copy saved on harddrive is not the same as the ‘master’ Quick Movie file, there is a big drop in image quality. Anything with movement (people moving or zooms) look ‘not quite right’, a bit blurred and slightly jittery.
Was it because of the Export settings in the first place?
Do you recommend any solution please?
Sorry to bother you again ….
Thank you and have a good day!
Aurora
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Is the original file interlaced? If you watch an interlaced (regular TV) file on a computer monitor (progressive), it will look bad. Depending on the ultimate destination of your project, you’ll need to set your export settings accordingly.
Jon
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Thank you for coming back to me.
Yes, it’s interlaced (25i). I need the Quickmovie file to look decent enough on any Mac or PC, especially as I am trying to pitch this 1mn film to a TV commissioner.
Would you please recommend any Export settings more than others?
(A friend who knows more than I had chosen the settings for me but I am happy to experiment with other Export settings so to improve the quality of this onw which is pretty dire…Thank you so much,
Aurora
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Keep in mind these are for NTSC – PAL shouldn’t be that different… Also, this assumes you are either delivering a QT file, or your encoding software is on another machine.
I right click on my sequence and choose export.
Click on the ‘options’ button, and select Quicktime. Make sure the ‘use enabled tracks’ and ‘use marks’ buttons are deselected. This does nothing more than export the entire sequence. If I do have one of those checked, inevitably I don’t have all my tracks selected.
Make sure the ‘Audio and Video’ button is selected.
Check ‘same as source’, choose 601/709 (I think thats right – I’m not in front of an Avid right now!).
Choose native dimensions 4:3 (assuming you are in 4:3 land – if you are in 16:9, check that).
Click ‘save as’ so you can recall the setting later.
That should give you the highest quality QT out of the Avid.
If your encoding software is on the same machine as the Avid, you can use a QT reference. Its much quicker to export, and you use the OMFI files.
HTH,
Jon
“The Almighty tells me He can get me out of this mess. But He’s pretty sure you’re F%$#*D!”
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