ATV Test Video? and Quicktime export settings

I know that the new ATV can output better video (720p 30fps) compared to the old models 24fps.
Is there a short test video that I can buy or download that would show off what it can do at 30fps?
I'm just curious to see what its capable of.
Also along the same lines.. I've got some iMovie 09 HD footage that I already exported for the old model but I'd like to export it again using the extra power of the new ATV - again just to see the difference.
Any clever video people out there that could help?

Export from iMovie in HD (YouTube setting is part of it). Then drag into iTunes. This setting is 29.99fps or something like that. Works great.

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Quicktime Export settings for projected slide presentation

I'm looking to find the best quicktime export settings to use in order to have a Keynote 3 presentation as a stand alone movie. I will be projecting the movie from a PC onto a large screen at 1024 x 768 resolution. The project is for a photography club public presentation, and needs to be top quality.
Thanks for your input
iMac 2.0GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Barbara,
The 640X480 vs 720X480 dilemma is an interesting subject! DV Video and Video DVDs use 720X480 resolution. TVs do not have square pixels, but computer monitors do have square pixels - so some adjustment is needed, and 640X480 is the square pixel down-converted equivalent for computers to the 720X480 in non square pixels used by TVs......make sense?
iDVD supports high definition video
Well what this means is iDVD can read HD video files, and convert them to standard definition Video DVDs. It does NOT mean that iDVD can produce HD DVDs. HD DVDs and HD DVD players are not on the market yet.
Today's Video DVDs are not high resolution, they are 720X480. The only way to get higher resolution is to avoid the Video DVD standard, and just make a data DVD. This will not be playable on commercial DVD players, only on computers with the right software and codecs. If I needed to make professional presentations on large screen high resolution monitors, I would not use Video DVDs. Bring a new powerbook and use H.264
If you want to go the DVD route anyway, then 720 X 480 is the best you can get. I'd tell FotoMagico to export in HD (720p). This is a bit of overkill, as iDVD will encode at a lower resolution, but I've gotten good results that way.
You may have to use the anamorphicizer to get iDVD to realize the movie is Widescreen.
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
hope this helps
John B

FCP5 - Problems with Quicktime Export Settings

Hello -- I'm experiencing trouble when I export a Quicktime file from my FCP5 to burn to a DVD. The DVD, which I burn using iDVD, plays on my computer buut not in my DVD player -- the DVD player doesn't recognize it as a playble DVD.
I've tested everything -- Regular commercial DVDs work fine in my DVD player, so it's not the DVD player that's broken. I haven't changed anything to do with iDVD. And finally, DVDs of the two types I'm using (Maxwell and TDK brands) once both worked fine in my DVD player when I exported from FCP and burned using iDVD, so it's not the blank DVDs that seem to be at fault.
The problem seems to have occurred when a friend asked me to change the FCP Quicktime export settings to export a Quicktime file for streaming on the web and also for exporting a motion mpeg file (I'm not even sure what you do with one of those).
Although I now choose "current settings" when I go to export, because I thought this would give me the old, preset standard settings that worked just fine in the past, I believe the FCP export settings must have gotten messed up, because nothing else has changed with my process, and yet now, the DVDs don't work in the DVD player.
I am inexperienced/beginner level with the FCP program and don't know how to get back to the correct settings, and hope someone could be kind enough to help me. Especially since the help manual hasn't shed much light on this.
Many thanks in advance for any and all assistance.
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Make sure your sequence settings are progressive to begin with.
Here is more background:
http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/ljprepping_still_imagesFCP.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1564835
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/973481

Optimal Quicktime Export Settings For Eventual Burning to Blu-Ray DVD

Hello. We currently have a huge backlog of FCP, FCE HD and iMovie HD projects created in 720p and 1080i formats. While we all await FCP and DVD Pro support of the 1080p Blu-Ray DVD burning, in the mean time, what are the optimal Quicktime Export settings to get best possible rendering of my existing FCP, FCE HD and iMovie HD in preparation for eventual transfer to Blu-Ray DVD for best possible viewing on my large screen LCD TV via Blu-Ray DVD player. I'd like to get to work exporting all my movies into the optimal Quicktime format in preparation for 1080p Blu-Ray.
For example, I have been creating FCE projects in a 1080i 60fps format. Once completed I typically have been exporting a "Full Quality" stand-alone movie. Is that what's optimal for the 1080p Blu-Ray DVD format, or something else? For example, what about interlacing? Should I be "de-interlacing" my outputted quicktime movies for better playback in the Blu-Ray 1080p format? What other things should I be considering.

Full quality sounds like you'll be safe. Keep in mind that WHEN DVDSP gets Blu-ray support, it will be able to do al the encoding itself. I do know that the next generation DVDs are using MPEG4 or VC1 compression instead of MPEG2 like standard DVDs are today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1 That being said, I don't believe that Compressor has a VC-1 encoder, but it definitely has H.264, so if you wanted to do the encode yourself, I guess you could pick that and be set. I would do some research on the technology behind Blu-ray and then base an encode on what you find. There's also MANY threads on here about this already, so Search is your friend and use it to get more info.
Good luck and don't forget to rate if this was helpful,
-Brian

QuickTime Export Settings for Optimal DVD

Hello. I am using a third-party slideshow software (FotoMagico) to produce a QuickTime video which I will then burn to a DVD using iDVD. Fotomagico has many different export settings. I would like to produce the highest quality DVD possible. From reading past posts, I understand that 640x480 is the maximum size for iDVD (although I also see 720x480 listed as a standard DVD size). I also understand, from an article on Apple site, that iDVD supports high definition video. Here's where I get confused. Should I export from the slideshow software using H.264 video compression, or should I use another of the available codecs, like DVCPRO? Also, is it possible to make a DVD that looks sharp on a high resolution monitor (say 1280x1024 or some such), or must I just downscale my expectations and maybe make a QT movie for computer viewers? Thanks so much, Barbara

Barbara,
The 640X480 vs 720X480 dilemma is an interesting subject! DV Video and Video DVDs use 720X480 resolution. TVs do not have square pixels, but computer monitors do have square pixels - so some adjustment is needed, and 640X480 is the square pixel down-converted equivalent for computers to the 720X480 in non square pixels used by TVs......make sense?
iDVD supports high definition video
Well what this means is iDVD can read HD video files, and convert them to standard definition Video DVDs. It does NOT mean that iDVD can produce HD DVDs. HD DVDs and HD DVD players are not on the market yet.
Today's Video DVDs are not high resolution, they are 720X480. The only way to get higher resolution is to avoid the Video DVD standard, and just make a data DVD. This will not be playable on commercial DVD players, only on computers with the right software and codecs. If I needed to make professional presentations on large screen high resolution monitors, I would not use Video DVDs. Bring a new powerbook and use H.264
If you want to go the DVD route anyway, then 720 X 480 is the best you can get. I'd tell FotoMagico to export in HD (720p). This is a bit of overkill, as iDVD will encode at a lower resolution, but I've gotten good results that way.
You may have to use the anamorphicizer to get iDVD to realize the movie is Widescreen.
http://homepage.mac.com/sith33/FileSharing34.html
hope this helps
John B

Flash and quicktime export not possible at all!

hi iwork dev team!
as there was no result on my prev post, here again:
i use keynote'08 4.02 on imac with 2gb and osx 10.5.2.
i created a presentation with 15 slides and over all 16,5 minutes.
each slide has a mp3 sound file attached (the speakers voice recorded externally).
now i am facing following problems on *export to flash* (export is around 18mb):
1) synchronization of voice and effects is different than inside keynote - i fixed this by changing times and export/test cycles, as long until i run sync in swf (please make it sync - this is terrible).
2) starting with slide 13 some objects do not appear - in further slides many objects do not appear. the sound and time is ok, but not much to see. if i split the presentation into 2 parts, the export works fine, all objects appear in all slides, but i found no way to combine those 2 swf files....
3) in one slide i found out that the order of appearing/disappearing objects confuses the swf export, so that many objects afterwards are not at all shown.... i played around long and splitted the slide in 2 slides and with some workarounds i got it show all objects.
4) it would be great if at least some transitions and most effects would be supported and times of effects would be the same inside keynote and in exported swf.
*exporting to quicktime*:
1) first i had one large mp3 for the whole presentation and added it as soundtrack and synced it inside keynote. exporting this to quicktime made it run async. but at least export was possible for the full presentation.
2) i splitted the mp3 for each slide and added each mp3 to each corresponding slide. this way i made it possible to export to swf (see above). but quicktime export now has no sound and slide shows up nearly endless.... qt export is impossible.
what can i do?
at least it would help me if i can export ONE swf file.
best would be if it has same sync inside keynote and in swf - but i can live for now with swf export optimized sync that doesnt work inside keynote. but it should be fixed at least in the future....

I'm currently having a similar problem, where the Flash exported by Keynote seems to randomly miss some objects on the page that appear after a click or a delay. In fact, in one case, I had embedded a EPS file in the slide, and some parts of the embedded file were exported to Flash but not others. I'm using Keynote 3.0.2, so I'm sorry to hear that Keynote '08 still has this bug which makes Flash export pretty awful to deal with.

Youtube and iDVD export settings?

So I had someone videotape my bands live show with the hope of making a DVD and also posting the individual songs to youtube with iMovie 2008, but it seems that with iMovie the audio/video goes out of sync with video clips longer than 20 minutes or so. So after much wasted time figuring that out I bought Final Cut Express 4. Just to be difficult, the developers don't include a share to youtube feature in Final Cut Express 4, but they do it seems in Final Cut PRO. So Im trying to figure out what to export the individual clips at, to then do the extra step of uploading to youtube, but of course there is no info for this in the FCE documentation. Maybe if I buy Final Cut Pro all my troubles will be gone? The direct youtube upload feature in iMovie only takes about 20 minutes total. But this looks like it will take an hour to export, and another half an hour to upload for each 5 minute song (screaming profanities at the top of my lungs). I'm starting to hate this company. Is Premiere any better? One of the guys in the band wants the raw footage to do his own thing with on his Windows PC with "Nero". Will the original .dv files I captured with iMovie work for him? I had to purchase Stuffit Deluxe to segment that .DV file up to fit on 4 DVD's for him. That .dv file is in sync when opening with Quicktime, just not in iMovie. ...and oh yeah for some reason the audio just makes a beeping sound if I import that .dv file into Final Cut Express. So I set that pain in the neck project aside and captured some video straight into Final Cut. I have located the Final Cut captured video, and it seems to be a .mov quicktime file (720x480 DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, Integer Little Endian...). Was this a good setting for capturing footage from my old 2001 Canon Elura mini DV camera (original Elura), and will it work for the friend using Nero? Also, I've heard people say to not re-encode the video from the editing software before uploading to youtube, but I tried that and each 5 minute video was going to take about 3 hours to upload with the youtube uploader that way, and there's about 14 of them. Yes I do have high speed internet. Any answers would be appreciated thanks.

You're asking a lot of questions here, some of which having nothing to do with Final Cut Express. There's an iMovie subforum here where you can ask your questions about A/V syncing in iMovie.
In FCE, with standard-def material (NTSC) you need to be working with a DV codec Quicktime ".mov" file (which is not the same as the .dv file that iMovie produces). Otherwise the clip will need to be rendered, hence the beeping sound you heard.
Segmenting that .dv file for your PC-using colleague may not work, depending on whether they can decode the Stuffit Deluxe files you've made, and they may still not be able to open a .dv file, although if they have Quicktime installed it might be possible... but again, you're not likely to find much about that here.
There is nothing wrong with exporting (encoding) a file for YouTube, people do it all the time. But on the other hand, YT gives you a 2GB limit so if you want to export a higher quality version under that limit, there's nothing stopping you. YouTube will re-encode it down no matter what, by the way.
Time and patience (and ease of upload) seem to be an issue with your project, so perhaps it's best to just work with iMovie and get help from the folks on that forum to help you....?

Quicktime export settings broken after 10.4.11 update

after applying the 10.4.11 update (Intel) my export settings dialog fails to launch in quicktime.
I goto export -> options -> settings and get nothing
here's my terminal output:
my-computer:~ my$ /Applications/QuickTime\ Player.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickTime\ Player; exit
SystemFlippers: didn't consume all data for DITL ID -19177 (pBase = 0x16941e7d, p = 0x16941fb6, pEnd = 0x16941fdf) - this is after I hit the Options button
CoreEndianFlipData: error -4940 returned for rsrc type DITL (id -19158, length 1112, native = no) - this is after I hit the Settings button
I also cannot export to any quicktime formats from other programs since this seems to be a related issue. . .
I've tried updating quicktime along with everything else. . .
I've searched all apple.com forum posts and found no one with this issue, will keep looking tho. . .
any help would be greatly appreciated. . .

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Best quicktime export settings - compression - from final cut pro

i have done this for a while. still don't know.
to translate an ntsc 24p project onto a dvd, which export settings (compressor)do you use in final cut pro? i use current settings, and once i am done with idvd ("best quality") it just doesn't look high quality. is this an idvd question?
powermac g5 2.7 ghz dual Mac OS X (10.4) 2.5 gb ram

I didn't know iDVD could handle 24fps project. Or is it a 29.97 (23.98 with a pulldown).
Best quality in iDVD just means that it works on it longer to compress it more to fit more on disk. Have you tried Best Speed version?
Patrick

Quicktime Export Settings for Keynote Import? Keynote freaks out 16:9 clips

I have 1440 x 1080i HDV footage imported into the latest FCP that is getting exported into Keynote. I notice that most of the exports and imports into Keynote end up doing weird stuff, like reducing the resolution, or turning it into a 4;3 format even though it is 16:9 on the export.
I don't care about the file size with Keynote, so I don't want to compress it any further than how HDV ruins footage to begin with.
So far the only thing that has worked is exporting it as a ProRes file.
Do any of you have recommendations on individual clip FCP export settings/workflows?
Thanks!

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Even though a Macbook Pro does not have a screen that size, the Macbook can send out even larger than 1920x1080, but I am limiting the output to the native screen res of the projector.

Duration settings and QuickTime exports

I have two long (33 minutes and 40 minutes, each weighing almost 400 Mo) Keynote 3 presentations with complex builds and audio narration. My goal is to add a music soundtrack by
1. exporting each presentation into FCE
2. creating for each a mix that closely follows the action and audio narration of the story
3. exporting each mix as a single aiff file
4. placing the aiff file in the audio well of the first slide and having it run for the length of the presentation
BEFORE I can try this, however, each Keynote file has to be exported as a QT file for use in FCE. The problem is that the presentations do not read the same in QT as in Keynote, as far as the timing is concerned. (A very unpleasant suprise!) No setting in the Slide Duration and Build Duration of the Self-Playing Movie export window seems to resolve the discrepancies.
It would be an extremely daunting task to go back and manually adjust on a hit-and-miss basis every one of the 216 slides in the hope of making the exported-to-QuickTime file fit the timing of the original Keynote file.
Any suggestions for an easier solution? Maybe even a hardware solution? Would truly appreciate your input.
Max

We had similar problems with KN to QT exports. The basic problem is that Keynote (as a presentation, not video editing app) produces animations and transitions which do not have a video-style timecode, so it is more or less impossible to get time-accurate video exports when you are dealing with a long presentation.
However, KN is a beautifully simple tool for producing broadcast (SD or HD) quality video motion graphics, charts, storyboards titles etc. And, if I'd hazard a guess, this is what you're trying to do here: use the intuitive video-esque content generation ability of KN and then add a linear musical score for the entire duration.
But perhaps you'd be better off re-thinking your production process: turn things the other way up. Use the strengths of KN in combination with those of FCE (basically, easy assembly of a number of video clips, which can then be overlaid over one or more soundtracks).
We've found it much easier this way round.
Produce your Keynote in the normal manner. Then SPLIT into SEPARATE presentations each containing a single slide or short thematic sequence of a small number of slides. Export each one of these as a SEPARATE QuickTime.
Then import ALL the sequences into FCE (or FCP). Then use that app's strengths to precisely adjust the timing between each element, as you reassemble the bits into a linear movie.
(We've found that subtle use of some of the true video effects available at this stage of the process can add impact to the underlying KN).
Then record your voiceover in FCE. (Or use Soundtrack for even creater precision).
And then overlay your music track(s).
And finally save the whole thing as a self-contained QuickTime movie. Don't think of it as a Keynote anymore; think of it as a self-running movie – because that's what you wanted in the first place: a linear 33:40 piece of media.
But don't worry, you've still got your original 216 slides (with all their transitions etc.) for their own optimal use, as an interactively controlled live presentation.
Having said all that, it would help greatly if Keynote 4 added to the current version's already world-beating ease of CREATING video-style content the ability to CONTROL that content with the precision of Apple's own video apps.
A video-style timecode would be one item. Animation along a spatial and time path (a la Motion) would be another.
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SD settings and HD export settings

Can someone help answer a question? Using Final Cut Pro. The movie I have saved on the timeline is 1.5 hours long and was shot in standard def using a Sony HDR-AX2000. I export using QTConversion, but I need to know the proper settings to go with. I am simply trying to get the file onto Youtube - and occasionally burn a dvd. I need the quality to be decent.
I also need the proper specs for HD clips. Same thing. Which settings are appropriate and most likely to get onto Youtube without a problem.
I do not have any limit on time with Youtube, but when files are greater than 2GB, the uploads fail. How do I keep the final file ready to upload to under 2GB?

1.5 hours is awfully long to hope to get under 2 gigs. You should really consider splitting it into a few parts.
Don't export with Quicktime Conversion. Export a Quicktime Movie, Current Settings, Self-contained.
Take the file into Compressor and drop on the YouTube preset. Open the Preview window and set in and out points for a section. Submit a test and see what file length v. file size you can get away with.
You can also experiment with the Apple TV presets which are excellent. You may need to change the resultant files' extension to .mp4 for YouTube to accept them.

Fastest quicktime export settings for pro tools?

I need to export a heavy movie (42 minutes, 6 video layers, a lot of color correction effects) for the mix. I need to do a quicktime, and it doesnt need to be really high image quality.
I tried exporting a .mov with dv settings but Premiere encountered a problem and shut down. Now I need to export this really quickly, ideally under 2 hours. Which are the best settings? Everything I try has more than 8 hours time remaining.
Many thanks in advance for your help.
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Turn the effects off, that may help. (I assume this is just for timing issues, and doesn't nee to be the final 'look'.)

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