William Jones
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Animation is no doubt your best (quality) compression so far as factory installed codecs, although your file size won’t drop that much. H.264 will drop your file size drastically but your footage will lose a lot of its quality. Simply put, all of your shadows will disappear and your image will look muddy.
When you export from PP, try changing your pixel aspect to square and use one of the following dimensions; 1920×1080 or 1280×720, depending on whether you shot 1080 or 720.
Let me know how it goes.
William
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Your best option is to export a quicktime with no compression. This will be completely lossless and will keep all of your color information. Those horizontal lines are interlacing and they will always be there unless you export progressive.
William
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The preset for P2 media is the DVCPRO HD preset. Your framerate should be either 29.97 or 24p, not both, but that’s not terribley important. Make sure however that when you export,you change your framesize to 1280×720, and your pixel aspect ratio to square. If you run into any issues, let me know.
William
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Export your quicktime movie using these settings:
compression – H.264
quality – medium
keyframe – automatic
frame reorder – no
encoding – multi-pass
data rate – automaticWith these settings I was able to compress a 2GB hi-definition, 30 sec commercial down to 6.01MB. Always import your files at full quality and only compress them (if they aren’t already, sadly MPEGs are) when you know how small you need to make them.
William
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You probably have breaks in your timecode, which will cause a bunch of hassles whilst capturing. Try to always leave your camera on while recording until you are completely finished shooting.
William
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I am not sure if this is entirely accurate as I usually work with 720, but try exporting with the dimensions; 1920 x 1080. Also make sure that your pixel aspect ratio is set to square.
William