[Kaoru Koike]

Hi Jeff!
Happy New Year and sorry for the late reply.

Did you use compressor? Are you sure you didn’t make an h.264 (a type of MPG4) as opposed to an MPG4?

Yes, I did use compressor and I made MPEG4 file with H264 compression.
It was surprisingly a good quality video with small file size.
Thanks so much.

My concern that I addressed in last post was just me wondering why I hear people say that MP4 is for web. I lack the knowledge in that area…

My understanding is that TV use interlace as opposed computer (progressive) and I assumed maybe when I use Compressor to export MPEG4 it was automatically set as progressive and thus it looks good on the computer but it may not look good for broadcast?

What does the brodcasters delivery specification sheet look like? It should give very specific data rates and file types.

Unfortunately they have not given me any specifications. I was told to search for best file format and compression that maintains good video quality… I guess I just have to keep trying different formats to see if that works on TV.

But Thanks!

[Kaoru Koike]

Hi Jeff! Thank you for the reply.
I think FCP X Does not edit AVCHD natively for some reason.
As soon as I import the clips from the SD Card, all the clips are stored as QT movie in my original media folder….

Anyways, I have tried with the compression with 10mb bit rate 1980×1080 MPEG-4 video and it certainly reduced the size and video looks as good as QT Movie.

But I have a new concern.
The final destination for this video is TV broadcast so I want to make sure it looks good on TV. But for some reason MPEG-4 setting in compressor doesn’t give me the option to choose i/p.

Do you know when you export MPEG-4 it is automatically set i/p? Is it true that MPEG-4 is more for web tv than TV broadcast??? if so, do you know why??