Export for Apple TV

I've edited footage in FCE4 in separate projects from both AVCHD (Sony HDR-CX7) and HDV (Sony HVR-Z1U). In both cases footage is in a 16x9 format. When I export and set it for Apple Tv I get a squeezed picture that plays fine on Apple TV in both cases. I've tried exporting at various settings that result in a 16x9 movie but they won't sync with Apple TV. Help would be appreciated. (I've had great results with iMovie and recently moved up to FCE4)

Try exporting as a quicktime movie then convert to Apple TV with Quicktime.
BTW you should setup your forum profile to show your hardware and software versions.

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I want to be able to use FCE to edit my HD footage from my Sony HD7 camcorder then display results through Apple TV. I know I will lose resolution, but am having one particular problem. After importing clips to FCE I exported to Quicktime movie, then opened the file in Quicktime and exported to Apple TV. The resulting video seems "jerky" at least to my eyes. Almost like every other frame was cut out. Do I need to export from FCE at a different resolution or frame rate to get the export to Apple TV looking better?
Thanks all for the help.

Thanks Tom. Could be just my eyes seeing the difference in the results, but here are the details.
Original File from Sony HDR-HC7
Video Tracks:
Apple Intermediate Codec, 1440 x 1080, 29.97 fps, 98.77 Mbps
Audio Tracks:
16-bit Big Endian stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps
Export direct as QuickTime movie and conversion to Apple TV seems to show some jagged sharp motion to my eyes, so I tried the steps below and got a more fluid result.
The exported from FCE to 1280 x 720 with these settings:
Compression: H.264
Quality: High
Key Frame Rate: 24
Frame Rendering: Yes
Encoding Mode” multi-pass
Dimensions: 1280 x 720
Results of export from Final Cut
H.264, 1280 x 720, 29.97 fps, 17.48 Mbps
16-bit Big Endian stereo, 48 kHz, 1.54 Mbps
Then converting that to Apple TV file (opened in QuickTime and used export for Apple TV):
Video Tracks:
H.264, 960 x 540, 29.97 fps, 3.81 Mbps
Could be that Export to QuickTime Movie makes an Apple Intermediate Codec file and the export using QT conversion made an H264 codec. Perhaps there is a difference in the way the QT function "export to Apple TV" handles those two codecs???

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All I want to do is export my iMovie 6 edit in a reasonably high quality export (for archive and Apple TV) WITH my chapter points preserved... Is there a workaround for this, for example exporting to FCP and then Compressor.
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Hey Jeff, I realized that you've marked this thread Answered but, in case it matters, the issue with retagging files already imported into iTunes is a known issue (For whatever reason, the iTunes Library Database file doesn't update the metadata when a file is retagged externally.)
What many of us (iTunes nerds) do is delete the file from our iTunes library, retag externally, then Add to Library in iTunes.
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Share/export for Apple TV

Is my only option to pick the Share to iTunes with Large (960x540)? I have HD (1080) projects I'd like to have available thru ATV.
Quicktime, using 'Movie to Apple TV' has only Default settings - non-changeable.
My TV is 720p via HDMI. Shouldn't I be able to get some larger output?
Thanks,
Rick

Is my only option to pick the Share to iTunes with Large (960x540)? I have HD (1080) projects I'd like to have available thru ATV.
No but there are specific file playback limitations. Playback of files having frame rates of 29.97/30 fps is limited to 960x540 resolution while files having 23.976/24/25 fps are limited to 1280x720.
Quicktime, using 'Movie to Apple TV' has only Default settings - non-changeable.
You can, in fact, create files at any dimension you wish using the "Export Using QuickTime" H.264 or MPEG-4 export options but whether or not they will play in the TV media player is something else.
My TV is 720p via HDMI. Shouldn't I be able to get some larger output?
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Chris

Yes, I can see them ok and have managed to export in various formats with them intact. My problem is more to do with knowing the right settings/codec to export for Apple TV but with the chapters in there still. I've got good looking ATV compliant exports, and I've got various formats with the chapters in, but not both. It would seem like a really basic thing to want to do, but seems really elusive (unless I'm being dumb!). I actually started out in iMovie as it's a family video and pretty basic edits etc. but iMovie can't do this either
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JFraser wrote:
Then what's the highest bitrate that's actually supported and how much bandwidth will the Apple TV hog from the network at that level?
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Yes
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Greetings,
Does anyone know if this is possible within iWeb, that is, to use movies created using Quicktime's "Export to Web" feature, which really seems to deliver superior movie quality?
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style="width:720px; height:505px";
scrolling="no">
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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Why No Export to Apple TV 3 in 1080?

Logic:
Apple Makes Apple TV 3 which offers Blu Ray quality 1080 picture.
Apple Makes Final Cut X.
Therefore, Final Cut X should natively support Apple TV 3 in 1080 via export.
It does not.
I know you can actually subsitute "Quicktime" for "Final Cut X" in the foregoing logic, but there is such huge interdependence...
More Logic:
Buyers of Apple TV 3 want to see their 1080 home movies on Apple TV 3.
Apple offers no path for this to happen in its software products.
Therefore, Apple TV users will be fewer, and buyers, unhappier.
Steve Jobs spoke of the "digital lifestyle." The pantheon of hardware and software that is Apple places the company at the center of the digital lifestyle. Were Steve Jobs alive today, do you think this oversight (which is glaring, obvious, and large) would have been tolerated? Is this an early example of how vision and an eye toward overcompeting, standard setting, and industry dominance were taken to the grave with Steve?
Bringing Apple TV 3 1080 support to Final Cut X and iMovie, likely through Quicktime, is not only a no-brainer, but given all the tools to achieve it are available and often poorly implemented by third party software companies, having this arena of want tarnished by others is not a very Apple Domination thought.
I have tried using Compressor to process for Apple TV 3. It is a huge joke, wasting enormous time through some very, very bad, unfinished code. I have aborted a few tries after two DAYS of Compressor chewing on it, poorly. Third Party Software will spit out the same file (Pavtube) in 1.5 hours using Quicktime components... Perfect 1080p video (including 1080i deinterlacing) and perfect 48KHz audio with the caveat it will NOT be in sync. Again, poor programming.
Thus, the world of Apple TV 3 is still very incomplete.

go2rba wrote:
… It does not. …
… when your Project offers only 720.
1080 projects are exported, with the settings Tom already mentioned, as … 1080 projects

Exporting to Apple TV

I have imported my personal movie from my Sony MiniDV camcorder to iMoveHD. The total length of the movie is just 7:45 minutes. There is a new option in iMovieHD called Export to Apple TV. When I use the export option I have two issues:
First being, the export takes about 5 hours to complete on my iBook. This does seem very weird. It takes about the same time if I try to export using H.264 codec, terrible slow. If I use the DV codec it takes about 20 minutes.
Second issue, is after the export, when I play the movie in iTunes, the video does not maintain the aspect ratio. All people look fatter and shorter than the original movie. The height seems to have shrunk.
Can anyone let me know what I am doing wrong ?

Exporting from iMovie to a movie with the H.264 codec tends to be slow. Very slow. The time required depends on your processor. What you describe is probably normal. If your export succeeds, and it sounds like yours did, everything is okay. It's just going to take a while. (Apple TV is going to sell a lot of Macs, I suspect, for this and other reasons. But that would be speculating.)
Regarding the dimensions of the exported movie: yours is 720x480, I suspect. You probably exported from a "normal" iMovie DV project. That's the dimensions I get here from a DV project. (To learn more about the exported movie, drop it on the QuickTime Player icon in the Dock and open the Movie Info window.)
My guess is — and it's just a guess — Apple TV will handle what appear to be aspect ratio problems when the image appears on the TV. The "Apple TV" export format defaults to one of several dimensions, depending on the source material. (It's different for HDV iMovie projects and DV Wide projects than for DV.) It will work with your TV to make it look right.
Like the generic iPod export setting, the Apple TV setting offers only the "Default" setting. That's a clue, suggesting QuickTime knows what it has to do and it takes care of doing it. When the movie is intended for Apple TV, Apple probably doesn't want you messing with it.
The quality of the Apple TV imovie is so good it hurts, doesn't it?
Tip: If you don't want the Apple TV movie to open in iTunes, change the suffix of the exported movie from ".m4v" to "mov". (Either when you export it or later, in the Finder.) Now when you double-click on it, it opens in QuickTime Player.
Karl

Quicktime Pro 1080p codec for apple tv?

Anyone know if there's a Quicktime Pro codec yet that will take original 1080p content (like home movies shot on a 1080p camera) and encode it to M4V for Apple TV at 1080p? I think the "Export to Apple TV" in QTP-7 still encodes to 1280x720 doesn't it?
Thanks!!

Although QTKirk has provided the most generic answer that should provide useable file, here are some additional details:
I think the "Export to Apple TV" in QTP-7 still encodes to 1280x720 doesn't it?
Unfortunately, this is true. The current TV preset creates files targeted for use on multiple TV models which limits the maximum resolution available.
Anyone know if there's a Quicktime Pro codec yet that will take original 1080p content (like home movies shot on a 1080p camera) and encode it to M4V for Apple TV at 1080p?
Unfortunately, the only QT 7 Pro option that allowed the creation of a 1080 H.264/AAC M4V file was the old "Movie to H.264" option which was replaced by the current mobile device specific presets. You can, of cource create a 1080 H.264/AAC MOV file using the "Movie to QuickTime Movie" method described by QTKirk or create a 1080 H.264/AAC MP4 file using the "Movie to MPEG-4" option and then either change the file extension manually (works with most apps that don't really check the file container type) or actually remux the data to a real M4V file container.
On the other hand, there are other, non-QT 7 Pro options available. I personally prefer the free HandBrake option here. It has separate presets for TV (720p24, 540p30), TV2 (720p30), and TV3 (1080p30) options available if you prefer that route or allows advanced customization to create your own preferred preset to directly create an anamorphic or non-anamorphic 1080p H.264/AAC M4V file. What you shpould actually be asking yourself here is not ifthe there is a work flow that can make your 1080 content but what are the actual goals of the work flow you want to use. For instance, are you saying "I want to create the best, highest quality 1080p non-anamorphic file I can and don't care how large the file is or how many hours it takes to make the conversion?" or are you saying "I will accept a high quality, anamorphic file that is playback efficient in terms of file space and streaming requirements and requires only a moderate investment in time for the conversion?" or something in-between?

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