Which format?

[Jim Heid]

On 5/6/04 5:18 AM, "Macintosh Digital Video List"
<MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:

> Message-Id: <F8156F34-9E95-11D8-9021-000A9569DEDE at mac.com>
> From: Lee Chapman <leechapman at mac.com>
> Subject: Re: Which format?
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:13:15 +0100
> 
> Hello all and thanks for the advice.
> 
> When I exported my 11 minute film to QT at highest settings the end
> result was still pretty awful. In the end I used DIVX which produced a
> fairly large file ( but still small enough to fit on a CD ) and the
> quality was much, much better. As the client will be transferring the
> file from CD to run directly from his hard drive I thought this was the
> best way to go. I'm still a little disappointed that I couldn't get QT
> to produce a better end product, even after several attempts each with
> different settings. DIVX, for me at least, appears to be far superior
> to QT.

I'd suggest a different strategy, if your hardware and your client's
hardware permits.

1) Bring your movie into iDVD
2) Create a DVD
3) Copy the DVD's AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders to your client's hard drive.
4) Have your client play the movie by opening the VIDEO_TS folder using DVD
playback software (i.e., DVD Player).

What kind of iron does your client have? There are better strategies than
the one you outlined, and QuickTime is certainly capable of exquisite
quality.

- Jim

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