Compressing HD Movie into Quicktime Movie

Im trying to compress a movie i made with imovie HD into Quicktime Movie but it always fail, iMovie HD is not responding... i was able to compress it into Mpg & AVI so I dont understand why I cant compress it into quicktime... anyone ?
thanks in advance!

Are you storing your projects on a hard drive formatted as FAT32? FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB.

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There haven't been any really clear instructions on how to get subtitles into QuickTime movies yet. Apple has posted a QuickTime component that will convert an SCC file into QuickTime and you'll find that here.
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/ClosedCaptionImporter/index.html
Also, a discussions user has posted instructions on how to CC a QuickTime movie in this thread.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5756610&#5756610
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Thank you Dave, but unfortunately I've tried both of these. Well, I don't have QT-Pro, just the regular OEM version and incorporated the TitleLab components to my Library > QuickTime folder, but to no success.
Do you think that this TitleLab software will work properly on OS X 10.4 and QuickTime 7? This product is designed to run on the following operating systems: Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X 10.1 & Mac OS X 10.2...
So, the upgraded QuickTime 7 Pro doesn't have a native subtitling ability? That's unfortunate!
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Need to export Movie to Quicktime Movie w/ similar file size and quality.

Let me preface in that I am not in the video editing profession. Many times I have exported my work to the professionals. I'm sure knowing what you're doing is half of the battle. Here is my dilemma. First, I'm using Quicktime pro just to add a text track to the movie. I then save the file as what Quicktime pro calls Movie .mov. This looks good and has the quality of the original .mov and the small data size. However, no other player than quicktime will recognize the text track. I then tried exporting from Movie to quicktime movie format (still .mov, can anyone explain the difference of the two .mov types???), but I find that the image quality is poor. Yet, in the quicktime format other players (except windows media player) recognize the text track. By poor quality I mean that I think what I have is the blocking effect. I assume that this is due to the bitrate being to low. Again, I would like to keep the file size low and managable for data storage and downloading purposes. I was hoping that in the end all video players would be able to have no issues.
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The size of the image is 512x512
I should also say that I'm a PC user with a quicktime pro windows version. I'm sure that doesn't help me one bit!! However, I believe my issues are more with the fact that I'm not experienced in compressing files and knowing exactly the right settings.
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frame reordering checked
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am i correct that this 'my photo stream' process is not removing any image data?
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Thanks for the info. But I can not get any setting to come out looking widescreen. All settings come out square looking. I have tried every setting I can think of but all the QuickTime exported movies come looking like (i.e.: 800X854) more box than widescreen. I think it must be some setting I do not know about or some combination or possibly the capture setting (easy setup).
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jcc31 wrote:
Is there a way to convert a whole iDVD project into a quicktime movie?
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Yeh thanks,
But I'm afraid it has to be a quicktime movie (as per
the Annabel Williams rules set out on the website).
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I recently made a movie in iMovie, I accidently deleted the original imovie file, but I have both a DVD copy of the original and Quicktime file of the movie. For the life of me I cant figure out how to either save the DVD copy as a new file in imovie or take the quicktime file and move it to movies on my appletv. When I drag and drop the quicktime file on to itunes movie it doesnt appear. Any help....thx dave

I'm guessin the quicktime movie is DV as suggested and that it won't drop into itunes because of it's size.
If you haven't bought Quicktime pro you won't have it, it's not free and will cost you $ 30 (I think).
If you don't want to do that you have a few options but the two that have been discussed here are handbrake and mpegstreamclip. Both are free and good quality products but you might want to consider which route you want to go down.
Handbrake is easier to use than mpegstreamclip but there's a bit more to it than that. You might want to try to understand the type of compression used in each option.
DV, this is likely the compression type used by your camera, imovie and I'm guessin the compression type your quicktime movie is in. DV is basically the best standard definition compression at consumer level. It involves very large file sizes and let's say a quality of 100%.
Mpeg4/10 (AVC), This is the compression type you will use to make your movie compatible with tv. It will reduce the size of your DV file to less than 10% of it's original size for a small loss in quality of lets say 20 %.
Mpeg2, This is the compression used when you made your DVD, it reduces DV sizes down to about 25 % of there original size for a let's say 20 % reduction in quality.
The actual reduction in quality here is my guess work but you get the idea.
The other things you need to remember are that you can never regain quality you have lost and every time you convert you will lose quality.
So we already have the mpegstreamclip scenario, you'd be going from DV to AVC and losing about 20 % quality.
If you use handbrake, you've already lost 20% of your quality because you are starting off with mpeg2 which has been converted from your original DV. However even though AVC is the same quality at a smaller size you will still lose some quality because of the conversion process. So your end result may be a 30% loss in quality compared to a 20% loss by using handbrake.
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