Exporting project in high quality regarding format? & disc?

I have been editing my project in ProRes 422 in FCP 6.0.6. I plan on burning my disc in my MacBook Pro disk drive. What high quality exporting format should my project been in so I can play this disk on DVD players? And what DVD disc works best with my computer and
DVD players?

High quality or not, the only format that will play on DVD players reliably is the DVD format, which uses MPEG-2 video and either PCM or Dolby Digital audio, multiplexed then specially formatted into VOB files along with the disc instruction files so DVD players can read them.
You will need either iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, Toast or other DVD authoring/burning app to complete the DVD creation process. For best results, use Compressor for encoding the files and DVD Studio Pro for authoring.
-DH

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How can I upload my FCP project in high quality on youtube?

Ok so I finished a 4 minute project on Final Cut Pro and it's perfect. But when I bring it out of FCP the quality fails completely. The video is blurry. Even the music sounds terrible. This happens when I export through share masterfile even though it's 4 GB
I'm trying to put it on youtube. What's the best way of doing it?

Don't share directly to YouTube. YouTube has bandwidth limit requirements and I'm pretty sure FCPX is trying to upload its usual high quality H.264 video. If you upload a video to YT at a higher quality than they allow, they will re-encode the video for you to fit their requirements. Their encoders are not as good as the ones you have available on your mac... and... they don't care. The only exception is for creators with enterprise quality internet connections, in which case, youtube will take what FCPX feeds it.
Use Compressor, or Quicktime 7 Pro to transcode your "master" export out of FCPX (I'll usually just use ProRes 422 LT).
You need to encode the video with H.264. (Using QT7Pro:) if the video is 1080, then you need to set the Data Rate to 8 Mbps (Restrict to 8000 Kbps); Keyframes Automatic; Frame Reordering off; Optimized for Streaming; Best Quality (Multi-pass Encoding). Audio: format AAC; Rate 48kHz; (I use) Variable Bit Rate encoding with a sampling rate of 192kbps (typically - anything from 128 to 384). The last step you have to set up: Prepare for Internet Streaming: Fast Start. As a matter of habit (since this step seemed to make a difference a couple of years ago) I'll go into the Size options and check the Preserve Aspect Ratio by using: option and select Letterbox from the options. [I prefer using QT7Pro because there are less things to screw up. I've never had *satisfactory* success with Compressor — I'm always getting into things that complicate the procedure.]
Anyway, if you get the numbers under the limit, the upload to youtube is faster, it's "ready" right away (almost as soon as it's uploaded) and you'll get at least what you expect to get (what you see before uploading.) Compressing some types of video (usually high contrast/high action) down to 8Mbps is going to cause problems you'll just have to live with.
YouTube has an encoding requirements guide here:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en
but it's for PC people... you do not need the .mp4 container, .mov is just fine (been using it for years).

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In our app we need to run a video that is high quality. Higher quality than the settings that quicktime pro presets output at. Does anyone know of what format settings I can use to export a high quality video to play?

I use 15 fps, because it looks better when used or converted into flash. If you just try uploading 30fps & 15 fps of the same file on youtube, you will see a change of the quality of the video.
I have never used the broadband settings for the FCP compressor .. But I will try it out.
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FCE export settings for higher quality video

Hello. I'm a self-schooled newspaper video features producer and relative newcomer to Final Cut Express, shifting from Premium Elements. I've just begun using it to upload videos to my newspaper's finicky web system, which will only accept .flv files of a certain size. My modus operandi has been to export my videos as large .avi files, using Quicktime conversion and DV/DVCPRO/NTSC, with medium quality, with 16 bit sound set at 32 Khz. Then I run that .avi through the Adobe Flash Media Encoder with a frame rate of 15 fps, deinterlacing and resizing the screen to 640 by 480. This procedure (outlined by our former video editor) produces serviceable web quality video (You can see video that results from using these settings at http://wvgazette.com/multimedia). So, two questions: 1) I have created an 8-minute FCE music video for my band and wish to export it at a higher quality (for use on Vimeo) than these newspaper settings. Which of them do I change so that a higher quality video results without waiting all night for a massive file to upload? 2) And wthere might I turn for guidance on better understanding the Sanskrit of FCE video export settings for newbies? Thanks for any help.
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http://hundredmountain.com

The simplest way to produce good quality video for the internet is:-
1. File>Export Using QT Conversion.
2. The "Format" window should say, "QT Movie".
3. In "Use" select "LAN/Intranet" from the dropdown menu.
4. Click "Save" and when it has finished encoding, upload it.
Do not mess about altering audio settings, frame rates etc.
Using the above settings an 8 minute video would be encoded in around 20 minutes (depending on computer speed) and would be well under 100MB.
Is that too big?
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Hi room...
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Yours sincerely,
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What is the best format to publish/export in for high quality??

Hii everyone
I designed a brochure in illustrator and every time I publish it for some reason quality is lost.. the image isn't so sharp and clear anymore. Can anyone help??

no name,
To elaborate, File>Save As PDF, or File>Print choosing PDF/Acrobat Distiller as printer, will normally be the safest way to get everything to print in the right way regardless of final printer. You may set the options for desired quality/compatibility level (high is mostly good). If you have raster images, you may File>Place them as links.
If relevant for the artwork, and if you are only/mainly printing with a non Postscript printer, you may consider using File>Document Color Mode>RGB Color from the start to avoid repeated colour conversions, still staying within the CMYK gamut if the printer only prints CMYK (you can see the Out Of Gamut warning in the Color palette/panel).
Edit: Crossposting.
For Worst, you will probably need something like a File>Export using JPEG, TIFF, Bitmap, or PNG, using RGB Color Mode and setting the resolution high enough.

Exporting .mov Question: High Quality = Interlacing?

Hi Guys-
(Please excuse the double post in the Compressor forums, this applies equally to both)...
I am rendering out a .mov file of my standard def five minute short film. I use "Export using Quicktime Conversion". Under options > settings > H.264, when I set the quality to "high", I get a decent rendering of the final product but with a noticeable decrease in quality. But when I set the quality to "best", I get what looks like an exact copy of my raw files with no quality degradation whatsoever. The problem: when I render it out on "best", you can noticeably see the many interlacing lines when it renders. I do not have this problem when rendering on "high."
Question: Is something different happening or is the quality just so crisp you can see this now? Even when I apply a de-interlace filter in compressor, you can tell there's a filter on there. How can I render this out already interlaced and without having to use a filter.
Again, this doesn't make sense to me because all of my raw editing/files never appears with these interlacing lines. Only when I make this highest quality render of the project do I get these lines. Thanks!
I should also mention the video will be going to YouTube, not to a TV.
-Jack
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Go to http://www.proappstips.com/ and buy Philip's "Simple Encoding Recipes For The Web" - it's only a few dollars, and contains all the info you need to know (and then some).
Best of luck with it.
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Export settings for high quality R3D footage

Greetings Adobe Community.
I've been working on a Project using 5K R3D footage directly into Adobe Premiere Pro. Now it's time to export and I'd like to know what would the output settings need to be in order for the footage not to loose quality and have a relatively compact size at the same time.
I am working on a 5 minute short. I exported a 35 second scene to a Quicktime ProRes4444 codec. Beautiul quality, but the file was a little over 1Gb. Should I export QuickTime or Mpeg?
I know ProRes 4444 will give me huge files... should I go 422?
Thanks in advance

I wouldn't throw away valuable chroma info going to 422 if you have 5K footage.
I'd find a AVC-Intra or other codec that is 444.
MPEG2 doesn't support 444
h.264 does but I'm not aware of any Premiere plugin encoder that does 444.
I think you're better off staying with the ProRes444. 1Gig isn't that big since 1Tb is less than $100 these days. Heck, 1Gig fits easy onto a usb thumb drive - so shipping it to someone is still dirt cheap.
for 5 minutes that's 10x more (5min = approx 10 x 35seconds) so you're still only looking at 10Gbytes total size.
If storage is important stay with an 444 format with some other non-ProRes/DNxHD format like h.264 (assuming you can find a 444 solution).

Best Export Settings For High Quality Upload

Hi..   Sorry if this is a dumb question - I'm not real flash on the technical side of things, I learnt how to edit by slicing together home-made rally driving videos!! I've not studied or anything..
Anyhow..
I'm shooting videos for someone who is doing Real Estate Training..   They are being shot on a Canon 7D (HD).
The course this guy is selling has an online option,   and so all the videos I'm shooting need to be uploaded - which poses a problem for me..
I've not been able to find a way to export these videos with any sort of quality without them being 300-400mb in size!   Obviously this is no good as I believe this guy is having the videos hosted on his site (rather than going to Youtube - as people are paying for the course).
So,   I'm trying to find out what the best way is for me to get these clips down to around 20mb or so, but still retain some quality.. Is this possible?
From what I've seen, the clips are going to be somewhere between 5-8 minutes long, and as I said they're being shot in HD..
I'm editing with Prem CS4 on a Windows system running 64bit Windows 7.
I think I've got it covered if he needs these on DVD as I'm working on another training project at the moment which is going to DVD,   but getting vids down to size for upload is throwing me.
If anyone could help me out that would be great.. There is a little urgency to this in my case,   we are shooting on Friday, and he's going to need the files in a week (I've got 3-4 hrs worth of videos to put together)..
Any help would be fantastic.
Thanks very much,
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www.roryodonnell.com.au

you might be able to get stuff down in byte count using h264 or wmv

Export settings for high quality, high resolution screen cast

I am trying to use iMovie for editing some software demo screen casts, and while my movie looks dandy in iMovie shown full screen, my final export looks like there is a lot of compression and antialiasing going on.
I am starting with a 1920X1080 screen capture via iShowU HD Pro, using Animation as the compression type. For final output I am using the Export using QuickTime option, and I have tried MPEG-4 at Best Quality, H.264 with Best Quality Compression and Multi-pass Encoding, and both look pretty bad. Anyone have any recommendations on the best export settings for a screen cast? Especially one that I would ultimately like to make available cross platform as well as via iTunes?
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Adobe Premiere 7 video turns blurry / pixilated upon export. How do I get a high quality export?

Hello. I am editing a video in Adobe Elements 7.0. The footage is standard definition. I am ready to export the video, but when I do this the video comes out blurry or pixilated looking. The footage looks clear when I am actually editing it, but when I export it something goes wrong. I need one export in Flash (which will later be posted on the web) and one export as a Windows Media File or MPEG so it can be viewed internally on our office computers. I have played with copious settings, formats, compressions, etc. How do I export non-blurry, high quality, clear videos?
Thank you so much for your time and consideration. I really appreciate it.

Hi Mr. Hunt! Thank you so much for responding. I really appreciate it.
What is my project preset? That's a great question. My settings are:
General:
Editing Mode: DV NTSC
Timebase: 29.97 frames per second
Video:
Frame Size: 720 horizontal x 480 vertical
Pixel Aspect Ratio: D1/DV NTSC (0.9)
Fields: lower field first
Display format: 30fps drop frame timecode
Title Safe Area: 20% horizontal and vertical
Action safe: 10% horizontal and vertical
Capture:
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Video Rendering:
Maximum bit depth - box is NOT checked
Previews:
File Format: DV NTSC
Compressor: DV NTSC
Color Depth: millions of colors
Optimize stills - box IS checked
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Does that answer your question? If not, where would I go to find my presets?
I'll have to check out MS Windows Media Encoder.

Whch produces higher quality m2v- Quicktime or Compressor

I use Final Cut Express HD and export mpeg 2 videos for use in DVD Studio Pro. I have exported both - NTSC high quality, 2 pass vbr, 7 mps bitrate with both Compressor and Quicktime. Both files look good when previewed, yet my finished DVD video is not a clear. Is there a better way or different codec to use to get cleaner DVD end product?
Thanks

We get the qt movies out of Compressor, the look great in DVDSP, but DVDSP won't even recognize them when they make the DVD.
Please clarify that statement. If you're using Compressor to encode MPEG2 files from your animations, you should end up with files that DVDSP will import. What presets are you using, if any?
We are using standard compressor settings for "MPEG2 60mintes" coming out Compressor.
I realize that DVDSP should support them, its that it won't that is causing the problems... :-\
And, if we allow the DVDSP to do the conversion to DVD itself, the results look VERY bad.
What are your encoding settings from within DVDSP?
Settings? We are going to DVD... thought that needed no settings to be set? (I could be wrong, I'm only the wingman on this one...)
and it seems to have something to do with the resolution of the files, going from 720x486 to 720x480... maybe...
Compressor handles that properly (crops 6 pixels rather than scaling). Not sure about encoding from within DVDSP.
Ah... that makes a little sense... if there is a difference between Compressor and DVDSP handle compression. Does it take 4 from the top, 2 from the bottom to allow the fields to be handled correctly?
We are making an animated 3d video, so there are no frames or codecs (DV) on the video... The workflow is then into After Effects, FCP and then DVDSP
Are you exporting Targa frames from Lightwave and then importing the sequence into AE? Once you export from AE you're certainly attaching a codec. Are you using Animation? Then, when working in FCP, what codec are you using? And are you working in 720x486?
Actually, we are exporting RPF (Rich Pixel Format) files from Lightwave3D, going into AFX, taking an animation codec QT into FCP, outputting both to MPEG2 and QT Animation format to DVDSP... then to cr*p DVD or nothing...
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Exporting final project for youtube (with high quality)

hey guys,
i have been trying to export videos and upload them onto youtube giving them a high quality look for some time now.
the website recommends for the best quality:
-mpeg 4
-320X240
-MP3 audio
-30 fps
there is even a video on it here:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55745&topic=10526
i tried two different ways of exporting my project. i use fc express hd on a macbook pro...the first export was an mpeg 4 divx export. i used the 4 recomendations but it still came out pixilated. i then tried the regular mpeg 4 option in the export menu. this one had a different audio option. there was no mp3 listen and ACL audio or something like that,
either way they both came out pixilated! this was only a 5 minute long video. i have seen plenty of videos on youtube that were 8 minutes long and crystal clear.
there must be SOMETHING i should change in my exporting options! please help! its been like a year and a half now that ive been searching for clear youtube videos!
thanks for your time,
Mike

hmm i tried there suggestions and unfortunatly it came out pixilated!
i was excited to see the results too because that page given seemed like it would work...
i double checked all of the settings and they matched up with what they suggested...
does any body have any suggestions? thankyou!

Exporting video - HIGH QUALITY

Dear Readers.
I have a question regarding an export of a video from Final Cut Pro. I am about to have an exhibition of my work and I really need to have it projected High Quality. I have decided to play it straight from the laptop instead of burning a DVD (which takes a lot of information). The only thing that I am not sure how to do, is an export of Video. Which in your opinion would be the highest possible quality of playback if the video is going to be screened via Quick Time (unless there is something better that goes full screen on a computer?)? I would be very grateful for some help.
Thank you all in advance.
Karolina

Hi:
This way you'll get the same quality that your timeline, but depending on the footage format (I didn't find any data about this in the original post) you must take some care.
QT will play DV files as square pixels and will show your footage distorted, and will play it by default at low quelity. To play it at full quality open the file in QT and go to Window > Movie Properties, select Video Track and in the lower right you'll find the High Quality option.
In the same panel you can change the display size to compensate the pixel aspect ratio in case your movie is non square pixels.
You can save your movie and those settings will be saved in the file.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Help - i recently made put together a high quality movie for a relative, it has taken me months to complete and it goes for a total of 9 hours and 43 minutes ,however, it won't let me export the video at all! please help - its taken ages to make it!

Help - i recently made put together a high quality movie for a relative, it has taken me months to complete and it goes for a total of 9 hours and 43 minutes ,however, it won't let me export the video at all! please help - its taken ages to make it!

9 hours??!
Twice the length of a cinema epic?
How are you expecting to distribute it?
iDVD encoding settings:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/7.0/en/11417.html
Short version:
Best Performance is for videos of up to 60 minutes
Best Quality is for videos of up to 120 minutes
Professional Quality is also for up to 120 minutes but even higher quality (and takes much longer)
That was for single-layer DVDs. Double these numbers for dual-layer DVDs.
Professional Quality: The Professional Quality option uses advanced technology to encode your video, resulting in the best quality of video possible on your burned DVD. You can select this option regardless of your project’s duration (up to 2 hours of video for a single-layer disc and 4 hours for a double-layer disc). Because Professional Quality encoding is time-consuming (requiring about twice as much time to encode a project as the High Quality option, for example) choose it only if you are not concerned abo
In both cases the maximum length includes titles, transitions and effects etc. Allow about 15 minutes for these.
You can use the amount of video in your project as a rough determination of which method to choose. If your project has an hour or less of video (for a single-layer disc), choose Best Performance. If it has between 1 and 2 hours of video (for a single-layer disc), choose High Quality. If you want the best possible encoding quality for projects that are up to 2 hours (for a single-layer disc), choose Professional Quality. This option takes about twice as long as the High Quality option, so select it only if time is not an issue for you.
Use the Capacity meter in the Project Info window (choose Project > Project Info) to determine how many minutes of video your project contains.
NOTE: With the Best Performance setting, you can turn background encoding off by choosing Advanced > “Encode in Background.” The checkmark is removed to show it’s no longer selected. Turning off background encoding can help performance if your system seems sluggish.
And whilst checking these settings in iDVD Preferences, make sure that the settings for NTSC/PAL and DV/DV Widescreen are also what you want.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1502?viewlocale=en_US

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