[Brendan Fay]

Interesting, thanks for pointing that out. Well, the source video is H.264, so naturally when I made a new sequence I just had the sequence settings automatically adjust to the first clip I dragged in. So, I kind of assumed it could handle the H.264. Now if I manually inspect the sequence settings, I see that it’s using H.264 for quicktime movie export. Based on what you’ve told me, I can see two options:

1) Figure out why the data rate is being reduced by a factor of ten when I export. Nowhere in any of the settings do I see anywhere to manually set the data rate (except for a box that lets you “limit” the data rate, which is of course not what I want to do, I want to leave it as is.) Or..

2) Don’t use H.264. In which case, what should I use?

Any advice? Thanks!

[Brendan Fay]

Yep, H.264. My sequence settings are identical to the raw movie clips and the exported movie as well:

H.264, 1920 x 1080, Millions
FPS: 23.98
Data Rate: 46.85 Mbit/s