Free Advice - Animation vs. DV Codec

So I've spent some time bangin' around trying to understand why the export from Motion to Quicktime (720x386) was coming-up blurry and pixelated.
Here's the free advice, don't use the DV setting when exporting, rather go into advanced and select Animation.
While I can't get MY two hours back, I can at least help the next guy / girl.
Cheers,
Andrew
G5 2.3 1.5 Gig RAM / G4 756 (10.2.8)   Mac OS X (10.4.5)   LG 700s Monitor

These discussions usually end up with us asking stuff
like: What is it you're trying to do? Why re you
using QTP at all? And why the weird frame size?
Thanks for the post. The size is based on a Flash interface that we developed for a CD project. Although it's an odd size, it looks pretty good in that dimension.
Since most of the animation comes out of Motion (text and logo marks) we wanted to get it crisp. So it doesn't need to be broadcast perfect, DV perfect, what have you...
As I mentioned we solved it directly with the Animation codec and what made it click for us was this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3337847?
However, having said all that, we check the export using QT and that's where we found the issue with the DV single pass.
I must say that the quality of the posts to my "free advice" has been exceptional and the knowledge base impressive.
I'll mark this thread answered even though it's not a question, and throw some points for the help.
Cheers,
Andrew
G5 2.3 1.5 Gig RAM / G4 756 (10.2.8) Mac OS X (10.4.5) LG 700s Monitor

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    create movie files that are too big and unwieldily.
    This is why I've been using photo-jpeg. I'm not sure
    how the Motion-jpeg A or B codecs you mention work -
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    You also likely have no use for any of these codecs. Most of them will actually degrade from DV somewhat. Don't fix what ain't broke. For your purposes DV is the native format you have to work with. Everything will work best if you keep it that way.
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    disk as possible, while supplying true frames. Logic
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    get! Picture quality is less important - I can always
    look at the DV stuff if I need too.
    Others with Logic experience will have other suggestions. If you need to see every field for timing you will need an interlaced signal and an interlaced display, which pretty much leaves you using standard PAL. Might as well be standard PAL DV. If the machine can't hack that there are other formats to consider including even MPEG-1 or -2.

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