QuickTime Options

[sb]

360 x 240 is not the correct size. It should be 320 x 240 (perhaps just a
typo?)

The Video codec is not the one to use.

Try Sorenson 3 again, this time with the correct frame size. Then, slightly
reduce the frame rate.

Sorenson is considered the best looking compression, so I think there's just
something off in your settings. Or, you could buy Sorenson Squeeze, a stand
alone application that's quite good.

 sb

On 9/13/03 7:00 AM, "Steve Robertson" <stever at mindspring.com> wrote:

> I asked a similar question back when I was using iMovie: What are the
> best options to use when creating a QuickTime movie from a DV project?
> 
> Now I'm using FCE. The latest project was a 5 minute music video. Since
> I've never found much documentation on QuickTime, I decided to
> experiment. I decided to make all the sample QuickTime movies with a
> 360 by 240 player window and 30 frames per second. The default codec in
> FCE is simply labeled "Video." Using the Video codec and specifying
> High quality, I got a very nice looking QuickTime movie of 29.8 MB. The
> Video Medium movie still looks pretty good and is 11.9 MB
> 
> Switching to Sorenson 3, the resulting High quality movie exhibited
> more pixellation than the first movie, and the file size was 81.6 MB. I
> tried Sorenson 3 Medium quality, hoping for a smaller file size, but I
> got a worse looking movie taking the same 81.6 MB.
> 
> Switching to MP4, High quality, I got a movie with too much pixellation
> and a file size of - you guessed it- 81.6 MB! I didn't bother with MP4
> Medium quality.
> 
> So are there deeply hidden QuickTime options that are preventing me
> from achieving the superior quality with Sorenson codecs that others
> have reported? Anybody found good documentation on QuickTime?
> 
> Steve R.
> 
> 
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