[MacDV] re: Two beginner questions

[sb]

H.264 does an excellent job in most cases.
There is another (not free) video codec that claims to compress between
50%-65% without any loss of quality.

You can try it out here:

http://www.bitjazz.com/sheervideo/

 regards,

 sb


On 8/8/05 1:44 PM, "David Hillman" <hillman at planet-torque.com> wrote:


> 
> sb wrote...
>> You don't say what version of iMovie you are using, or what version of OSX?
>> I assume since you are using H.264, you have QT7, so you must be using
>> either 10.3.9 or Tiger.
> 
>    Sorry, Tiger.  iMovie 5.0.2.
> 
>> DV video is 720x480. After importing into iMovie, export out using the
>> Share, then Expert settings, then make sure all the QT settings are for best
>> quality, choosing the H.264 codec, choosing 320x280 frame size, using AAC
>> for audio. You should be able to double that on playback and have it look
>> very good.
> 
>    That's just about what I did, except for the 320x280 part.  The
> resulting video quality is really not impressive.  I will try the smaller
> size.
> 
>    Is H.264 as good as it gets?
> 
>    Thanks for the help.