[Jordan Liles]

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot!

[Jordan Liles]

Yeah, I wasn’t so considered about file size as I don’t mind uploading overnight. The last file was 18.8GB. I’m just wanting to be sure that exporting with the “Fast Export Quicktime” setting in Avid (with the Avid codec, thus meaning the compression method isn’t customizable) is the best way to go about things. Am I doing it the best way in terms of quality? Obviously I could go uncompressed, but it would take more than a week or two to upload. That’s not an option.

[Jordan Liles]

When I say “filmy” I mean it looks as if it isn’t running at a full 29.97 or 30 frames per second. It has a different look colorwise in that it looks like it was shot on film and not on a tape. It was shot on tape.

When I go to movie info on the source, it says:

Apple DV, 720×480 (640×480), Millions
16-bit Integer (Big Endian), Stereo, 48,000kHz
Movie FPS: 29.97

I wanted to output from my original machine in Avid DV Quicktime format, but Sorenson (upon seeing a file using Avid DV as the video codec) puts the file in the Failed Source folder immediately. It doesn’t try to convert it. So I did not choose “Use Avid DV Codec” in Avid when exporting my original file.

I’m exporting the MPEG-2 file to our tv station 24 hour system that plays shows on cue. We just recently bought Sorenson Squeeze.

This any help?