[Daniel Grixti]

Hi there,

I have another question. It seems that when I export (file > export > quicktime movie…), the quality isn’t very good. I have tried self contained and reference (at 1024×576 because I am at 16:9) and the resulting .mov is soft and blurry.

When I export with no compression the quality is excellent, but the file size is obviously huge (200mb for 4 sconds)! I’m sure I couldn’t even fit 3 hours of that on my external hard drive.

Then I tried exporting with PRORES (HQ) and the quality is significantly better then the standard, self contained .mov file. Even though the file size is 30mb for 4 seconds.

Is it a good idea to use PRORES (HQ) for the final DVD?

I find it hard to believe that people use [file > export > quicktime movie…] for their DVDs as the quality seems so poor. Just so you know I am exporting the self contained / reference .movs with all highest settings.

[Daniel Grixti]

What do you mean by reference movie? Can you recommend a program that will convert my video to MPEG 2?

[Daniel Grixti]

Aah, that makes sense. So if I paste the properties, in this case colour correction, to the frames that I want, when I change the colour correction will it apply to all the frames that I selected? This means that I could edit the colours in one place and it will automatically apply to all the frames that I selected.

Thanks