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Uncompressed Quicktimes are bigger then they should be.
I just finished editing a project shot on standard miniDV, I added some titles using livetype and about a minute of music. The project in total runs 20 minutes. I exported an uncompressed quicktime and it is a massive 47GB, which seems ridiculously large for DV, what the dilly?
-adam
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[Adam Farrell] “I exported an uncompressed quicktime and it is a massive 47GB, which seems ridiculously large for DV, what the dilly? “
The original format doesn’t matter. What matters is you made an Uncompressed Quicktime. That seems about right for a 20 minute file.
If you want a smaller file, export a DV file.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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Adam,
Is your sequence set to DV?
Then do “File>Export Quicktime Movie…”, set the settings to “Current” and select “make movie self-contained”. That should give you a DV file about 5 GB large.Jaap
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As Walter points the original format it doesn’t matters. Apple 10b Unc yields files some 8 folders bigger than DV. You can have a look to the Marco Solorio web site where you can find very interesting information about the most usual QT codecs:
https://codecs.onerivermedia.com/
Cheers,
Rafael -
I exported as a DV file but now it looks like hell compared to the uncompressed. I know DV isn’t great, but this doesn’t look right.
Thanks for all the help so far,
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Where are you comparing, in Quicktime Player? Then you have to select High Quality playback in the preferences, otherwise it will not play DV files at their full quality.
If that is not the problem, then reimport the file to FCP and compare to the original. If you did the export the right way you should not see significant differences – unless you have some serious color correction going on.
Jaap
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