[Tobias c. Van veen]

Hi everyone, I just wanted to chime in to say I have had the exact same problem, working from source clips of .MOV at Animation quality, 23.976 FPS (as these are animation exports from Flash assembled in Premiere).

The only export setting that has worked for me is direct to H264 (not Quicktime’s H264), where I set the max bitrate quality to 7 and lowest to 4, bumping up the default of 3/6 slightly. This has produced excellent results. However this is a compressed format and I want a lossless export (QT Animation).

Unfortunately the Quicktime exports all produce fuzzy results. Animation produces dropped frames and psychedelic glitches. The QT H264 codec produces fuzzy results as depicted above by Tam.

Compared to QT Pro there appears to be a lack of settings — nowhere to set bitrate (greyed out most of the time) nor are there multi-pass adjustments.

Of note, I did not have this problem in After Effects. The FLV files were all converted to MOV in AE with excellent results as well. So why is Media Exporter having issues? Evidently it’s not QT Pro itself but something to do with the way Media Exporter handles QT codecs.

What is going on here?

As I would like to get an Animation (lossless) quality to my client as a master, any help on *setting bitrates* as hinted at above is certainly welcome.

Or perhaps there is a workaround — export uncompressed DV to 3rd party software? However others have demonstrated bad results with DV export too.

Whazzup, Adobe?