Tobin Duby
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See, that would have been the smart thing to do. But this was my first project after converting from the world of MiniDV, and I didn’t think of keeping the original mts’s. 😛
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Well, that explains it. I guess I’ll have to live with it until I can upgrade!
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Thanks, that cleared it right up!
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Well I think I figured it out. The answer makes me sound dumb but I’ll go ahead and share in order to put a nice closing on this conversation. For some reason, the “Make Self Contained Movie” box was unchecked in the Export QuickTime Movie dialogue. Now, it was my impression that this box should always stay checked unless you want to make a reference movie. It was also my impression that reference movies won’t play at all (as in, not even a distortion and looping on YouTube) when they’re disconnected from the source files.
But checking Make Self Contained Movie cleared it right up. Now to test whether the compressor settings you have pointed me toward make for a better upload…
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^sorry, that’s Wondershare Video Converter.
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At first I thought it was the YouTube re-encoding, but then I noticed that the distortions are visible if you preview the file in Wonders. Video Cconverter too. So maybe the errors really are in the local file, but in a way that QuickTime Player doesn’t see?
I wonder if I should try deleting a plist or something of that nature… but I really don’t know what I’m doing in that territory so I’m afraid to just go trying it!
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It is HDV from DV tape, captured by firewire.
Are you saying running it through the Compressor preset is actually better? I’d love to do without that second step if I can, since it’s never been necessary before. Any idea what could have changed here?
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source footage is QuickTime movie (MPEG-2 Video, Linear PCM, Timecode) captured from Mini DV.