COMPRESSOR QUALITY

Recently used compressor to compress a weeding to mpeg2 using doble pass 6.0 to 7.0 max bit rate and ac3 dolby
make authoring in dvd sp2
burn the dvd
The final result is a poorly compressed video.
for example in the part you see people dancing, (movement) some artifacts appear, like pixels, and other stuff, it really dont look professional.
it looks more than vhs quality.
Now I have to recompress the video.
will do from fcp a self contained quicktime and then compress to mpeg 2 in dvdsp2 I get much better results..
any idea.??
Thanks!

dvdsp uses the same engine as compressor, so the fact that it looks decent in dvdsp and not in compressor means to me that your settings (under preferences in dvdsp) are better than what you are setting in compressor. Look at your settings in dvdsp to get an idea what settings you are using and if you are doing cbr or vbr. then take into compressor, tweek settings similar to those in dvdsp and make audio .ac3 (dolby 2.0) and you should be good.

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Export FULL HD, changes in COMPRESSOR QUALITY huge change in final movie

Hello. I have the SONY SR12E camcorder and shoot my movies in FULL HD 1920x1080 and use Final Cut (what else.. to render and get my final movies. I use Log and transfer to capture my movies into Final Cut and then Send to Compressor to create the final movie.
But I have an issue with the differences in FILE SIZE when I change the Compressor Quality from Encoder -> "Video : Settings...." in Compressor.
For example, ALL of the stream/clips (156 minutes total video) that I want to turn into a movie is a folder *20.4 GB* in size
When I submit ALL these clips into compressor and use COMPRESSOR QUALITY : BEST, I get a final movie file with size *72,4 GB* for the 156 minutes of FULL HD video.
When I lower a little the COMPRESSOR QUALITY to HIGH, the final movie is *28,7 GB* a lot of Gigabytes lower than 72,4 (and my WD TV could playback this file on my HighDef tv, but the 72,4 is playing with "stops" every 2-3 seconds)
When I play both output movies, I could not notice any difference in the video quality on my Apple 30'' monitor or my 46'' LCD Samsung, it seems the same to my eyes.
So WHY there is SO MUCH DIFFERENCE in movie size when using COMPRESSOR QUALITY : BEST and COMPRESSOR QUALITY : HIGH ....?
Since the folder with all the clips is just 20 Gigabytes HOW IS it possible to get a 72,4 Gigabyte movie when using BEST compressor quality?
Thanks,
Moschos.

I know how is this done, I work with Final Cut about a year. But you seem to don't know that THERE IS A H U G E difference both in Quality and SPEED if you export from within Final Cut and if you SEND TO COMPRESSOR which is the most correctly. First, you can select more details and settings from within Compressor and Compressor uses ALL THE CORES of my Mac Pro Nehalem 8 core which is not happening when you just export from within Final Cut. On the other hand, when you SEND TO COMPRESSOR you can then continue working with Final Cut Pro instead of the other way where you can not do anything.
Anyway, thanks...

Compressor quality changes with clip length

Hello,
Im on a max OSX 10.6.5, compressor 3.5.3, FCP 7.0.3.
I am taking footage off the SONY XDCAM, running it through the XDCAM Transfer software and having it wrapped in quicktime so i can edit in FCP. The project was filmed in HD 1280x720, XDCAM HD422, 720p60(50 mb/s).
The destination is SD DVD.
Problem- Since going from HD to SD can be a bit tricky, I made a half dozen sample compression clips. I found that the compressor DVD 90min Best quality preset with a slight bitrate change to look the best. When I compress the 3 minute clip, it looks really great. But when I compress the entire sequence (only 83 minutes.. well within the 90 minute preset) it looks like garbage. The difference is night and day. What is the issue? suggestions?
Thanks,
Brian

Sorry for the slow reply, I hit the road for a while shortly after posting...but I'm back.
Also, I'm embarrassed to say that the problem turned out to be the nut holding the tool (in other words, user error). It doesn't matter how carefully one changes the clip length if you somehow forget that clicking on the clip then selecting "pasteover at playhead" does not paste the selected clip but pastes whatever is in memory. As I'm sure you can guess, the clip copied earlier was 3:12 in length.
Sheesh.
Sorry for the false alarm, and thanks to both of you for the help.

Final Cut Pro Vs. Adobe Premiere Elements 9 output quality.

Hey Group.
I am trying to edit some Sony 1920X1080 30i AVCHD footage and have had some quality problems while exporting FCP footage with QT exports (all footage logged and transferred into FCE with the proper setting that match the footage, etc as chronicled in other entries I have already discussed in other entries within this forum). My final footage was always coming out jittery and motion was never smooth and the "HD video" it produced looked amateurish and very computer generated looking. As a last ditch experiment, I decided to give a trial to Adobe Premiere Elements 9, which edits native AVCHD footage. When I exported a trial test, I was amazed to see this program exported the footage with a look that was exactly the same as the source HD footage from the camera, when played back on my WD HDTV Plus. My question is: what am I doing wrong in FCP? Is it because Premiere edits the footage natively rather than the conversion codecs FCP uses? Just seeing if anyone has any clues to this strange phenomenon. I certainly know for sure I like the workflow in FCP way better than in Adobe....Any ideas would be great. Thanks
Marshall

Okay, so here's my settings for my project...
To begin with, my output is to a WD HDTV Plus which needs a H.264 1920X1080i30 file.
The source footage is SONY AVCHD 1080i60.
My Import Prefs:
AVCHD: Apple ProRes422
AC-3 Audio: Plain Stereo
RT:
Both Dynamic Playbacks
Unlimited RT
Exported using QuickTime Conversion:
Compression: H.264
Frames:
Current
Key Frames:
Every 24
Compressor Quality: Best
Data Rate: Automatic
When it gets played back, still elements look "HD" but moving objects are jittered....HELP!
thanks
Marshall

Please help with highest quality export settings...

I have searched the forum and web for hours (no joke!) and I am still trying to figure out what are the best video settings to give me the highest HD quality video in daylight. I am using a Canon HF200 and the latest updated version of FCE. My problem is that I am unable to produce an HD quality video at 1920 x 1080 Full HD without being "jagged". I have two questions; what do you suggest to be the best FCE import and export settings to produce the best HD video, and what settings do you have your HF200 set to (for normal daylight conditions), to produce the best HD video file? The file will be played directly thru my computer to a plasma HDTV.
I have tried several settings, but using anything above 1280x720 16:9, makes the video "jagged". Again, I don't care about the size of the file or how long it takes, I just want the best. Is there something I am missing?
My FCP settings are the following:
I log and transfer the video from the camera into FCP (on a black MacBook; 2.16 GHz with 4 GB RAM) using the AVCHD Apple Intermediate Codec 1920 x 1080i source. I then export the video using the following:
Export using "Quicktime Conversion".
Quicktime options video settings are:
Frame Rate set to "Current"
Key Frames set to every "24" frames
Compressor quality: "best" (Encoding set to "best quality")
Data Rate set to "automatic"
Quicktime options video size are:
"HD 1280 x 720 16:9" (anything higher produces the jags!)
Deinterlace source video is NOT checked
My Canon HF 200 settings are the following:
- P mode
- FXP (17 Mbps)
- 60i framerate
all others are set to the normal default
I have read some reports saying the above is good and others suggesting changing FXP to MXP (24 Mbps) and/or the framerate from 60i to PF30. I don't care about the size of the file, I just want the highest quality HD file.
Any suggestions for the best FCE settings and/or HF200 settings would be very much appreciated!
Thanks for your help,
Evan

Thanks again for the feedback
Let me try my best to answer the above (I'm new at all this and I appreciate you guys taking the time to try and help me out).
First off, I tried rendering and that did not help.
Here is my sequence. I am not going into FCE from the camera directly. I have archived the video file from the camera using iMovie (as well as just making an exact copy of the camera files; they both appear to me to be the exact same, both can be logged and transferred into FCE, and both files give me a jagged FCE result).
Once I log and transfer the file(s), I then take the clip and add it to a sequence file (rendering or not rendering the clip(s) at this point does not make a difference), and then click/highlight the sequence file in the browser and export it.
As for "editing the video in a 1920x1080i60 sequence", I think I am. I am not doing any editing to the clip. It is logged and transferred using the AVCHD Apple Intermediate Codec 1920 x 1080i and then exported using either as a Quicktime Movie or Quicktime Conversion (set for 1920 x 1080 using H.264 compression; both ways still result in a jagged video).
That's about it...log and transfer, add clip to sequence, and then export sequence...
I hope this answers the above, but if not, I apologize; I'm still learning!
Also, if I use iMovie, with similar export (share) settings, I get a non-jagged video (I have tried with deinterlacing and not deinterlacing, and both video results are fine)
Thanks again,
Evan

Different Compressor settings for export in FCPX = same result

HI
For test purposes for a movie screener to upload, I've been changing the settings of a custom Compressor setting I imported into FCPX but seem to get the same result size-wise whether its 1- or 2-pass.
Do I need to delete the icon in FCPX and then re-choose it?
best
elmer

The Compressor quality slider (Least>>>>Best) in the dialog is activated when the Bit Rate is set to Automatic. If a bit rate is entered in the Restrict to field, the slider is inactive. Also, the slider is not available at all for some codecs.
One way or the other, one chooses a bit rate and that times the duration is the total bit budget that compressor figures out how to allocate on the first pass. Complex scenes get higher rates and less complex get lower rates.
Russ

Encoder quality

What am I doing wrong?
I am trying to move to AME and forget about Compressor, but I just can't quit Compressor!
I did an encode, matched my Compressor settings in AME, and AME gave me terrible results.
Whether I checked Maximum Depth or Maximum Render Quality made no difference.
I just need someone to confirm for me that AME is just not able to produce the same level, same quality of compressions as Compressor.
Speed doesn't matter to me if the quality suffers the way it seems to suffer. Speed doesn't matter to me if it uses every core and every kb of RAM I have, if the quality suffers as it does.
I've attached examples, still frames of my screen (27” Mac monitor with 2560 × 1440 resolution).
Screen grabs are .png format to minimize additional compression.
Here are the specs for the source files:
The source video in the spot is SD 720x486, Lower Field First, 29.97, scaled up in FCP.
The graphics are HD 1920x1080, No Fields, 24fps (western), ProRes 4444.
Spot was edited and exported from FCP 7.0.3 with these settings: 1920x1080, Upper Field First, 29.97, ProRes 422.
Specs for encode using Compressor (top left box in attached screen grabs):
h.264 (.mov)
restrict data rate to 5000kbps
compressor quality: high
encoding: Best Quality (multi-pass)
Frame controls: on
Resize filter: best
Output Fields: Progressive
Deinterlace: Better
Dimensions (output) 1280x720
Specs for encode using AME (top right and bottom right boxes in attached screen grabs):
h.264 (.mov)
limit data rate to 5000kbps
quality: 80
Depth: 24 bit
Field Order: Progressive
Frame Rate: 29.97
(output) 1280x720
UNCHECKED render at Maximum Depth (top right)
CHECKED Render at Maximum Depth (bottom right)
UNCHECKED Use Maximum Render Quality (top right)
CHECKED Use Maximum Render Quality (bottom right)
UNCHECKED Use Previews, Use Frame Blending (top right and bottom right)
Compressor (top left)     AME w/o Maximum Qualities (top right)     AME with Maximum Qualities (bottom right)

I'm posting another example of AME's failure to produce a comparable quality compression to what Compressor can produce.
AME just can't handle small detail or can't compress in small enough blocks to produce files on-par with Compressor.
Yes, AME is faster, but faster just means it puts out garbage fast.
I don't need work arounds, I have one, Compressor. I'd like to disconnect completely from Apple but I can't until AME delivers equal compressions.
I'm open for suggestions on adjusting my settings (listed in the opening post).
I'm still waiting for someone from Adobe to chime in.
** disclaimer **
The frames below are larger than the normal size so that quality is easier to *****.
The footage in example 2 was low res, web cam type footage. I chose to use it as an example because of how AME handles bad footage compared to Compressor.
                                                                         (AME example 1)                                                                                                                                             (Compressor example 1)
                                                                         (AME example 2)                                                                                                                                             (Compressor example 2)
                                                                         (AME example 3)                                                                                                                                             (Compressor example 3)

FCP/Compressor keep exporting horizontal green lines near the top and bottom mattes. What do I do?

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to export a:
1920x1080
29.97
Interlaced
ProRes 422 HQ
to:
DVD Best Quality (90 minutes) in Compressor
Quality all the way high
Mpeg-2
in Final Cut Pro and/or Compressor (both so far export with the green lines) and so far it has been to no avail. They show up right on the edge near the mattes. Most forums talk about a vertical green line but I am having problems with horizontal lines near the top and bottom.
Any ideas? Thanks.

If you are sending your file via share to Compressor I would try this instead:
Export a QT reference(not self-contained or using QT conversion) file of your sequence to your desktop.
Then:
Turn on frame controls in the MPG-2 setting and set all to best. Changing all settings to best will increase your render time greatly. You may want to do a :30 or 1min test.
In my experience Compressor can be inconsistent with HD to SD DVD MPG-2 conversion. Sometimes it works wonderfully and others times it does not.
I have had success with having FC do the SD conversion first.
Create a new 16x9 SD sequence
Add HD seq to SD and render
Export SD and then compress for DVD.

Low quality export for stop motion animation stills from Canon 5D Mark ii

Thank you very much beforehand to anyone who is willing to look through this issue, it's been a long and frustrating process so far...
I am attempting to put together a stop motion animation in Final Cut Express but my exports are always either low quality, or medium quality and stretched. I am shooting on a Canon 5D Mark ii set to take pictures at 21M 5616x3744 [999] (though I'm not entirely sure what the 21M or 999 mean).
When I first assembled my stills (unedited or altered in any way) and exported, it looked like this:
A relatively drastic loss in colour and quality. This was achieved exporting through quicktime conversion using the following settings:
Compression Type: H.264
Compressor Quality: Best
Size: 1920x1080 HD
Preserve aspect ratio using: Crop
Deinterlace source video: unchecked
Unhappy with the result, I went through hours of testing and researching which only yielded a result after I discovered the control-Q Easy Setup menu. I tried setting up as an apple intermediate codec using HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60 at 29.97 fps. I kept the export settings the same as above, but knowing that I was now working with a canvas that keeps to the 16:9 proportions, I tried cropping one of my stills in photoshop to fit that 16:9 ratio.
I then imported my 16:9 cropped still and an unedited JPEG version from my camera and exported the resulting 10 second video. The result was better quality, but still noticeably degraded from the original stills. More importantly, both the cropped 16:9 and the unedited JPEG were stretched out of proportion as seen below (16:9 version):
Of course I forgot to note the original settings on Easy Setup so I can't figure out how to get back to the original lower quality, yet undistorted image (not that I want to do that). I tried numerous different sizes for the export including changing the Crop (when necessary) setting to letterbox. Nothing worked.
The canvas, however, immediately looked 100% better after switching the Easy Setup to HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60 at 29.97 fps. It held the improved quality without distorting the image:
I'm not sure if there's any hope of having a great image quality, but at very least I would like to be able to export at the decent quality of the second screenshot without the stretching and cropping.
I need to have this resolved ASAP for work, I've already wasted too much time here. Any help is so appreciated, I'll be active in providing whatever additional information that I can to responders, though please keep in mind that I'm relatively new to all this, I don't know where to find everything

I've decided just to try to get back to the export that I showed in the first screenshot. That result came before I started tampering with the Easy Setup. Like I said, when I changed the setup the canvas quality improved drastically and the dimensions seemed to fit much better, but the export was vertically stretched and cropped. I just reset my FCE settings and it turns out the default setup is DV-NTSC, but it's giving me a terrible quality still...
I just want to get back to that second screenshot's quality.. Could someone suggest what I should switch the easy setup to for importing stills from my Canon 5D Mark ii to yield the right results?

How to export and reimport clips maintaining best quality?

I'd like to ask a few questions.
(1) I have several subclips in FCE that I would like to export, so I can import them back into FCE as individual clips, separate from the original capture. I would also like the option to use the exported clips in iMovie project. The most important thing is to save the clips at the highest possible quality. I ran into a problem when trying to import the clips back into FCE.
First, I tried exporting clips using File>Export>Using Quicktime Conversion... with the following options:
Video Settings:
Compression Type H.264
Quality: Best (the slider in the Settings window I dragged all the way to the right for Best quality)
Key frame rate: 24
Frame Reordering: yes
Encoding mode: multi-pass
Audio Settings:
Format: Uncompressed
Sample rate: 48 kHz
Sample size: 16
Channels: 2
Prepare for Internet Streaming <unchecked>
The clip was saved to disk. I didn't open or modify the clip at all.
Then I tried using File>Import>Files... but when I tried to import it, I got this error:
"File Error: 1 file(s) recognized, 0 access denied, 1 unknown."
So this is the problem I'm experiencing. Can't re-import the clip into FCE (it imports into iMovie fine, though)
Questions: Am I using "wrong" settings? Why is this happening? How can I export and reimport clips while maintaining best video and audio quality?
(2) A couple related questions: Some of my original source video was recorded at 12-bit quality (32 kHz). I know 16-bit is best (48 kHz) but the camera I used came with factory default 12-bit (and as a novice I didn't know to change it until several months later).
So here are my questions.
(a) If I export these clips using audio export settings at 48 kHz instead of 32 kHz, would that cause any problems?
(b) Would those clips then be recognized by FCE and iMovie as having 48 kHz audio even though it was originally recorded at 32 kHz? (I know the quality will be no better, but I've read somewhere that using 32 kHz audio can cause some problems with out-of-sync audio, particularly in iMovie. My hope is the new clip with the 48 kHz audio will circumvent such problems.)
Thanks for any assistance you can provide.
PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) NVIDIA GeForce 7800GT

TSchneider: Thanks again for your valuable reply. I have a few follow-up questions.
My first set of questions is about rendering audio to 48kHz in the timeline.
Almost immediately you'll notice that FCE has tagged the
entire audio track with a red bar meaning it will
need to be rendered (if you try to play the clip from
the Canvas controls you'll just get beeping or very
low quality sound). Go up to the Sequence menu and
select the Render All (or Mixdown) command and FCE
will transcode the 32kHz audio of your clip to the
48kHz audio of the sequence it's sitting in.
I followed your instructions and everything seemed to work until I got to the passage above. I dragged the subclips into the timeline. The clips appeared in the timeline but there was no red bar. If I chose Render All from the Sequence Menu, nothing happened. If I chose Export to Quicktime Movie, however, it takes several minutes, apparently rendering the audio and video. If I chose instead, Print to Video, the red bars do appear and the rendering process again gets going. There is a small progress bar for both operations in the center of the screen with a percent done and estimated time remaining.
Question: Why doesn't the red bar appear as soon as the clips are in the Timeline?
Question: Why doesn't Render All (or Render Audio) work? It would be much easier to walk away while all the audio rendered into 48kHz and then come back later to save the individual clips to disk.
My second set of questions pertains to the possibility of using Export>Using Quicktime Conversion as a substitute for Export>Quicktime Movie, mainly for academic instead of practical reasons.
If you export a clip directly from the bin "Using
Quicktime Conversion" there aren't any suitable
conversion video/audio formats that would give you
both video in the right format (for iMovie) and
transcode the audio to the sampling rate you want.
I understand your description of rendering the audio files in the timeline. If only academic, I was trying to see if I could duplicate the results using using Export>Using Quicktime Conversion. I chose Quicktime Movie as the format. The video setting was DV/DVCPRO-NTSC. The audio was uncompressed with 48kHz rate. This created a Quicktime movie file with these formats. If I opened the quicktime movie file in Quicktime and checked the info on the file, the audio was indeed 48kHz.
Question: Does this mean that the Quicktime Conversion process rendered the 32kHz audio to 48kHz audio prior to writing the file? If so, it would seem to bypass the need to render the clips in a sequence (although if I could render all the clips in the sequence at once, while I was away from the computer, it would be faster than rendering and saving each clip one at a time).
Question: When I exported a clip this way, then imported it into iMovie, the original capture date/time info was missing when I got info on the clip. However, when I save the clip using Export>Quicktime Movie, the date/time of capture was still present. Would there be any way to preserve this date/time of capture info when using Export>Using Quicktime Conversion?
Question: If I decided to Export>Using Quicktime Conversion with the above settings (DV/DVCPRO-NTSC, 48kHz audio) there are other options I'm given pertaining to the video settings. There are settings for Compressor Quality, with a sliding bar where you can choose Least, Low, Medium, High, and Best quality; and there is Scan Mode (interlaced or progressive). How does one choose among these? If you want the best quality exported clip, I suppose you would chose best quality, but what scan mode is "best" for my purposes -- interlaced or progressive?
Thanks a lot for your help. I'm learning a lot!

Poor photo quality when exporting iPhoto slideshow

Does anyone know which setting produces the best quality for an mp4 when creating a DVD using iDVD? I put a slideshow together using iPhoto because I wanted to use the iPhoto scrapbook theme. I exported the iPhoto slideshow using the highest quality (standard display setting) which produces an mp4 1422 x 800 (H.264, 30 fps, 7 Mbps, ~907 MB).
The iDVD project settings are:
1) Best Performance
2) High Quality
3) Professional Quality
What doesn't make sense to me is that #1 claims to produce a total ~1GB DVD with a 995 MB movie and shows the Quality level as green.
When selecting #2, the claim is a total ~643 DVD with a 575 MB movie with Quality in the red.
When choosing #3, the numbers stay the same as #2 but the Quality goes to yellow.
Why wouldn't the higher quality settings produce a larger DVD with less compression? Which setting really gives the highest quality?
The default is #1 (Best Performance) which clearly produces the lowest quality video when compared to the mp4 export from iPhoto (appeared with a higher quality) and when compared with playing the slideshow directly in iPhoto (appeared with the highest quality).
Would the quality be any higher if I export the iPhoto slideshow using a customized setting? iPhoto custom settings allow the choice of about 10 different compression types from Animation, Apple Intermediate Codec, to DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, to H.264, to MPEG-4 Video, to None (and others not listed here). The frame Rate can also be adjusted from Current (whatever that means), to 8, to 60. The Compressor Quality can be adjusted from Least to Best. Would "None" as the compression type produce the best quality when producing the iDVD?
The ultimate goal is to display the slideshow on the project at my church. The easiest way to do this is to put it on a DVD. But as described above, the quality decrease from iPhoto direct play of the slideshow is noticeable when moving to the .mp4 and extremely noticeable when putting the .mp4 in iDVD and playing the DVD back.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions or links to better documentation.

you just cannot export your slideshows in order to burn DVDs, with the same quality
That's an issue with iDVD and the DVD standards. All DVD media is downsized to 640 x 480 or the wide screen 720 x 480. It's the nature of DVDs, not iPhoto. If you use the Ken Burns effect in iPhoto you will need to use the largest 4:3 ratio images possible so the zoom and scan of the KB effect is working on the most number of pixels possible.
I've found that the best final image resolution is obtained by creating the slideshow in iDVD from stills imported from iPhoto at the 4:3 size ratio. The downside to that method is no KB effect and only one transition per slideshow. I play those types of slideshows on a 50" 1020p HD Panasonic plasma TV and the images are quite good. But good is in the eye of the beholder.
See Jim Symon's post in this iDVD topic: Re: High-definition DVDs. Also search his other posts as he was working out a workflow using Photo to Movie to create high def movies and burn them with iDVD. As I recall he found and posted his workflow at one time.

Creating the Best Video Quality for YouTube Using FCE

Hey guys, have a quick question. I'm making drum covers for YouTube, and I want the best possible quality for my viewers. I use Final Cut Express 4.0.1 on my MacBook Pro, and Log and Transfer the video footage from a HDR-CX160 Sony AVCHD Handycam. What are my best options?
Thank you!
Justin

In every aspect of life there is no such thing as one best option as it all depends on your particular circumstances.
Here is a good starting point for you to decide what suits you best.
When you have edited your project in FCE try these settings:-
Select File>Export>Using QT Conversion.
Click the "Options" button and when the the Options window opens you will see "Size", "Settings" and "Sound" buttons.
Click the Size button and set 1920 x 1080
Click the Settings button and select:-
Compression Type . . . . H.264
Frame Rate . . . . . . . . . Current
Key Frames . . . . . . . . . Automatic
Compressor Quality . . . High
Encoding . . . . . . . . . . "Faster" encode will give almost the same quality as "Best" but is twice as fast - your decision!
Data Rate . . . . . . . . . . Restrict to 10,000kbps (Don't use a comma when you enter the number)
Then click the "Audio" button and make sure that AAC has been selected.
These settings should give very good quality results fairly quickly, which should play well. Your file size will be around 5GB per hour.
Some people prefer to use the smaller 1280 x 720, in which case the Data Rate should be 5,000kbps.
I suggest you do a quick test with a film under one minute long to see how it looks as there is nothing worse than spending hours encoding a long project only to find that the settings were unsuitable.

Bad quality after exporting project (15 min)

How should I export the project to make it look great? I have tried several options, but I can't really export it in a proper way. It might have something to do with the different cliptypes I used..? I can't change that anymore, with a deadline in only a couple of hours. I tried to export it using quicktime, but that made the quality very bad. Now I am trying to export it with the help of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cje0TM2SW50, but it's taking 20 hours or so to do it that way and i only have a couple.
Tips anyone?

As Studio X said, the best thing you can do is make an interim, full quality master. This doesn't take long because in essence you are copying your media into a single QT file that reflects the Sequence settings. (If you have long sections that are unrendered this will take much longer - I recommend Rendering All in FCP before you make the self-contained, current settings file.)
Next, you close FCP and export THAT movie, and you can use a variety of applications to make your playback movie. Compressor is good; so are Squeeze, Adobe Media Encoder, and iSkySoft. Quicktime 7 also works fine. A tried and true format is an H.264 QT movie - but of course, I don't know what your final playback situation is.
Here are the base settings I usually start with for web delivery. You can test them on a short piece of your master.
Video
Format: H.264
Motion > Frame rate: Current
Data Rate: Automatic
Key Frames: Automatic, Frame Reordering checked
Compressor > Quality: Medium or Medium-High
Single-pass VBR (or "Faster Encoding")
Size: 1280x720
Audio:
Format: AAC
Stereo, 44.1 kHz
Normal Quality
I find these settings usually make a dependably good quality file, minimizing export time. You may also adapt these quality settings to make .mp4 files as well, which are more easily played on PCs as well as Macs.
For that, you choose MPEG-4, choose MP4 in the File Format drop down, H.264 in the Video Format drop down, and pick a data rate around 1000 kbits/sec. Other settings should mirror the above. Good luck!

Loosing quality after sporting

I have final cut pro 7 and im trying to export a video i recorded the video in 1080p on my dslr (canon rebel t1i) but when i export it, it looses quality could someone please tell me the best export settings to use to get my videos to export with the same quality as they came from the camera
This is the settings i was using
i always use quicktime conversion
video settings are
compression H.264
frame rate set to current
key frames every
frame recording checked
compressor quality best
encoding best
data rate automatic
size set to 1920x1080 HD
format set to quicktime movie
Hopefully someone can help thanks
Original quality from the camera (the bike was moving so its going to be blurred but just look at like the walls)
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After exporting
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You need to convert your H264 clips to Pro Res (LT wil be fine), Not sure if you can use Log and Transfer for this, probably can with the Canon EOS plug in. Either Compressor or MPEG Streamclip (http://www.squared5.com.)
will also do the job.
When you have finished the edit, export Quicktime movie with current settings and you will have a full quality movie that you can covert to whatever settings you like, depending on what you are going to do with it. Compressor has loads of presets to help you with this.
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PAL DVD mit FCPX und Compressor 4

I have FCPX and compressor 4 installed on a new imac. I edited my firs project. 27 minutes of scuba diving. When I export the movie to DVD the quality of the pictures in the movie is poor. I made in compressor a preset in changing from NTSC to PAL and I changed to 16:9. The movie was then in toast only 800 MB and the quality is very poor. Can somebody tellmy how to make a PAL DVD in good quaity, 2-3 GB?How do I have to change the preset in compressor?
Thanks for your help. By the way I love FCPX!

Try making the Compressor quality two-pass VBR between 6.5 and 7.5. Or try one-pass CBR at 7.5. You don't have to export the whole movie, just pick a problem section and mark in and out points in the Compressor preview.

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