[Charlie2202]

Thanks for that guys – unfortunately that’s one of the first things we tried.

It’s actually a small part of a larger issue – I should probably make this a separate post but I’ll do it here first:

Essentially we’re trying to find a quick way of compressing a DV file at a remote site, then sending it up to the central location for playout. We were hoping that by compressing using H264 we could change the timeline in FCP to be native H264 and play it out directly when received – but it doesn’t play out at all from FCP (thru the blackmagic decklink card) to the broadcast monitor, and the only option is to render it back to native DV!

The Quicktime prob is part of that – we decided to see if we could play out the 264 file from it – and we can by presenting the video. It looks rubbish tho, even with high quality set, but as a comparison we presented the native DV file and it also looks rubbish! As we can compare directly with the FCP DV playout we did and the quality is beyond comparison. As it’s exactly the same file, we’re unsure why presenting video on Quicktime looks so bad?

The main issue is that FCP won’t play out 264 compressed video on a native 264 timeline at all!

Any ideas?