Export settings for HD-quality video

I'm using Quicktime Pro 7.6.4
I'm trying to create a short time-lapse video from stills from a DSLR.
What should my export settings be to create a video at HD quality?
Being a still photographer I had originally assumed that the image size was the main factor but I see the "date rate" had a lot to do with it.

Image size does matter as QuickTime can make "movies" from your image sequence files that would be too large to fit your display.
You can then scale down the "video" dimensions in the Movie properties window to fit your HD dimension of your choice.
Depending on how many images files you're bringing in with the image sequence import would also determine the "original" frame rate. Lots of large files may need at least a one frame per second during the import. You can then adjust this video "time" by adding it "scaled" to an audio file and then extracting the new video track.
300 large image files at one frame per second would be added (scaled) to ten seconds of audio to give a 30 fps rate. You may not need such a fast rate and adding it to a longer audio file may work better.
I would use the H.264 video codec. The data rate would require some experimentation. I would start at 2500 and move up in 500 increments until you find out what works best (file size versus image quality).
All of these settings also depend on your final delivery media (Web, Computer or local files).

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It Stands for "Coder Decoder."
Your format is like a container for your video file. Certain containers can hold certain codecs and not others. Other containers can hold other codecs. Sometimes different containers can hold the same codecs.
This might be a bad analogy but I'll give it a try.
A coffe cup (container) can hold pretty much any liquid you drink, where a red solo cup (container) won't hold scolding water. So, the coffe cup would be your container of choice most likely because it has the most options for liquids (codecs). But, you might want a red solo cup for just a single crappy beer at a party (a moderate quality streaming video on the web). In that case, you don't need all the optoins of another container.
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Were as if you choose the QuickTime Container there are over 40 codec optoins (at least on my machine with additinal ones installed) but you may run into an issue where your browser doesn't support QuickTime playback.
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Yesteraday I wrote a blog entery on Exporting from Premiere Pro and found that the MPEG-4 codec inside of the QuickTime container gave me much richer colors than the H.264 container/codec option.
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http://goo.gl/8GZq4i

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Hi
I edit video from canon eos 5d 1080p /29.97 and want to get the BEST quality in exported files. (To be seen witha a WD media player and a full hd high quality video projector) .
Premiere CS5 ver 5.03 cuda enabled GEForce 470 The original clips are .mov at about 45 mbps h264.
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If I choose "match sequence settings" I get an mpeg file 31 mbps with I frames appearing after two P frames. (Gop=3)
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(To be seen witha a WD media player and a full hd high quality video projector) .
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t_hall10 wrote:
The information provided was helpful, but did not completely answer my question...
Are there specific settings with-in Aperture I can set for exporting so that clients have the ability to print as wanted and post on the web as wanted whithout losing any major amount of photo quality?
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I do appreciate this may be a frustrating answer, but non-the-less, that's how it is.
t_hall10 wrote:
Should I be gving 2 folders of pictures, one for web use and one for printing use? If I were to do that, what should the exporting setting be set for both folders?
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This is only a fraction of the colour shifts that will be occuring after you give your file to someone and they print it on their own uncalibrated system with their uncalibrated printer.
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They will either do the main printing themself on their own calibrated printer, or work with a print shop, and may have installed calibrated profiles on their system for the shops printing equipment so they can use onscreen proofing to gauge what the pictures will look like when printed on that equipment.
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You are actually moving into the realm of defining your product. You could, for example, ask the client which site they intend to publish the photos on, research that site and produce files optimized specifically for that site.
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