[Carl Rohumaa]

Resizing is something to be avoided when possible.
Only when up sampling.
If I make the QC render 720 wide (same aspect as 2000×800) and put this into a SD time-line the result is truly bad. If everybody followed your advice all films would be shot in SD. There would be no resizing right up to DVD. A 4k file still has end up on a SDDVD or Bluray/HDDVD

So in my tests a 2000×800 Quartz Composer movie in a SD time-line exports much much better than a 720×288 QC .mov
Much more detail. Gradients are smoother too.

Super-sampling is a concept where you make the render as big as possible so that when it is scaled and compressed there is much more information for the algorithm to work on. So you get a better result.

[Carl Rohumaa]

Yes that’s what I did. See my second post. Thank you. This is the best way so far!

[Carl Rohumaa]

Not only that why not at least work is video resolutions. 1920×1080 would be more sense since it will scale to 16:9 SD better and cleaner. But if you are not going to use the graphic on something HD I would work in SD resolution 720×480 with the aspect ratio you want.

OK do you mean set up my sequence as say 1080p and then go to .m2v?
I will try this now and see if it is better than having a PAL DV sized sequence.

[Carl Rohumaa]

Hi,
I am working in the format I plan to distribute i.e DVD.
OK so a DVD can be 16:9 but nobody makes “movies” with that aspect. Pretty much all movies actual content is wider than this and set in a 16:9 frame with information missing at the top and bottom.

[Carl Rohumaa]

Thanks for that Gary, very useful to know.

[Carl Rohumaa]

I am going to do some explicit tests. I will post back the results. I am sure having high resolution video will compress better than going native all the way. More information to compress will result in more accuracy in the end. I am down sampling.
HDV looks better than DV on SDDVD for example.
Well that’s my theory. We shall see. I just I wish I had more texture memory for Quartz, 2000 x 800 is pretty much the limit on my laptop.

wow it’s really late here, may have to wait……. for the results
Cheers
Carl

[Carl Rohumaa]

Ha,
Thanks, that seems too easy! just did a quick export and build and looks OK. Now to follow on from my first question would a 4000 x 1600 video look even better than this when scaled? i.e bigger the better?
Thanks again
Carl

[Carl Rohumaa]

OK this is really strange. On my old laptop I had a go at replicating the settings under FCP version 6.0.0 and it works. Problem is my project is on my new laptop with version 6.0.4 and I can’t open it on my old set up.
So to re-cap. The same files and settings give me the correct aspect ratio in version 6.0.0 but come out stretched in version 6.0.4

Pretty stressed now 😉

Anybody else been here?