[MacDV] Cleaner 6.0.1: QT SV3 Large Dl v's WMV WM7 Large Dl

[Mark M. Florida]

On 3/23/04 10:11 AM, YangZone at aol.com at YangZone at aol.com wrote:

> I would have expected the opposite: ie QuickTime to be superior.

It all depends on the codec.  QuickTime supports quite a few, ranging from
awful quality but low bandwidth (the ol' Cinepak codec), to really great
quality but still low bandwidth (Sorensen 3 or MPEG-4).  You can find out
what codec the QuickTime file uses by opening it in QuickTime Player and
getting info on it (command-i).  The latest versions of Windows Media are (I
hate to say it) really good -- the latest Windows Media video codec is
really efficient, so the quality is great, and the file is still small.
Even though Cleaner 6 only encodes for Windows Media 7, I guess it's still
pretty good.

> Any ideas? (I have not tried Compressor yet.)

I guess you've used Cleaner, but not Compressor?  I have used Cleaner A LOT,
but never used Compressor.  You should be able to get a really good-looking
QuickTime movie using the Sorensen 3 codec -- but probably not by using the
built-in presets (you'll have to do some tweaking).

Does that help?

- Mark