How to increase video quality?

How do I increase the quality of an uploaded video? When going straight from iMovie to iWeb the 2 min clip gets reduced to 5-7MB and it looks terrible.

First, I would do a Search on this forum for "FRAPS." There are several articles with comments on the best workflow and also settings for Import and for Export.
Next, YouTube is trobulesome. First, they re-encode everything and their specs seem to change weekly. It's tough to find out what they want on any given day. I'd go to their site and get the very latest instructions and attempt to duplicate those perfectly, knowing that they might be different tomorrow.
Good luck with this one, and good luck with the FRAPS footage.
Hunt

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Ok, I use a Canopus ADVC-110 to capture live video and I feel like I'm not getting the quality that I should seeing as I know people who use a Pinnacle Dazzle 90 on a PC and get better quality than I do. So, does anyone know how I can increase the quality on the video I capture?

Hi, I use all the time canopus and can tell you brings excellent quality.
in the past I owned a Dazzle (dont remember the model)and since new I wanted it in the trash. It gets me all the time issues, like my G5 cannot recognized it and when it does, your capturing and then it looses the comunication, etc. so I keeped back to the store and buyed canopus wich I have using for a long time and it never gived me any trouble.
Another way to capture video with real full quality is to buy a kona capture card uncompressed 10 bit, but then you will need an array of discs, 10,000 rpm discs..and a much more money!
Remember that the videogames have their limitations on resolution. Also it´s not the same to monitor a video signal in a computer monitor than in a conventional tv than in a professional monitor or hdtv.
make test not capturing video games, make a test for example, connecting a video camera signal directyly to your capture device and check the result, also the cables are the most common problems.
hope this help!
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Increase video quality

Is there a way to increase the video quality when using imovie? I film a lot of sports stuff and edit it on imovie and then burn it, which looks great on the computer but when watching the stuff on my tv it looks not even close to how good it looks on the computer. I want to know if there is some software or something that get the quality to look as good as a dvd or a just a regular tv channel, I want it to look as good or close to the quality of the computer image. I also burn everything on the highest quality that imovie will export to either idvd or toast.

1920x1080 is your source, and 720x480 is your end result. It will not look nearly as good.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2424451&tstart=0

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You can use sharpening tools like Unsharp Mask. You can use third party up-rezzing tools to increase size with better quality.
But, realistically, given you only have a camera recording of a video screen of the CCTV, it's very unlikely you'll ever extract much meaningful detail from it. Don't believe TV shows, image enhancement is not really so advanced.
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How do improve video quality

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No one here can help you without details. Unknown if any psychics are on board.
Exactly what problems are you having? Home made video? Website video? Size of video? Which video application? If using a browser, which one and version? Camera video? iSight video? Adobe Flash Player updated?

Mac Mini - has anyone figured out how to increase video RAM?

More and more websites are offering live feeds, particularly Indycars and CART, but the Mac Mini is functionally useless for this application offering only "Stop motion", which is great for Laurel and Hardy or Buster Keaton, but not quite the thing for a rapidly moving sport.
Has a hyper-intelligent mega being out there in Apple-land worked out a software patch to expand the memory capacity of the Graphics Card into normal RAM? After all the standard 64k is listed as "shared" memory, so could it be coaxed to grab a larger slice of the RAM cake?

I belive this would be in the same vein of folks who want to manually control the use of Virtual Memory in Mac OS X. In six years, no one's been able to engineer that feat.
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Got the new Nano and I am underwhelmed with the video quality of the new video camera. I have a mid priced Nikon Cool Pix camera that takes much better video.
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Michael Cuneo wrote:
Got the new Nano and I am underwhelmed with the video quality of the new video camera. I have a mid priced Nikon Cool Pix camera that takes much better video.
As with ANY camera, you have to hold it steady to get sharp video. IMHO, the 5G is NOT a camera. It just happens to have a video camera built-in for those times when you need a video camera, but you left your "A" camera home.
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macalltheway wrote:
What a bummer.
Now I'm stuck with a just-about useless camera. I really need something as small as the FH1 (it's TINY).
Hard-drive camcorders record MPG2, which I assume makes them just as useless.
Is then MiniDV the only choice for a sub-$500 1080i/p camera that will allow me to edit footage without converting?
If so, any tips on the smallest one out there?
Google came up with Sony's DCR-PC55, but it's four years old and only does SD...
Do you want good OR do you want cheap? That is the decision you need to make. Also, tiny tends to be the opposite of good.
P.S. AIC converted it best; ProRes(Lo/HQ) left it pixelated for playback. But it takes about an hour a minute, and increases the file-size tenfold, so it's no good anyway.
Yes, your actual editable video file is going to be 10x bigger than a MPEG-4 file. That is what you want.
P.S. 2 "....FCP is converting your video behind the scenes which is causing all your problems."
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I can't seem to get more then 20 fps and not so hot video out of iChat AV. With what should be pretty good connections, I still get stopping or pixelation at times, so I've been trying to isolate the issue.
Conferencing over an airport on an in-house system for a test, with 2.4 megs of pipe (showing in Connection Doctor; other tests show 10 megs up and down) using either iSight or a DV camera, I get 20 fps, no more. OS 10.5.3 on both sides, Quicktime 7.5 on both sides. Intel Duo 2Ghz with 1 Ghz ram on one side, G5 with 5 gigs of ram on the other. One way video chat. No other apps running. No other traffic on the Airport.
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Ralph,
Thanks. I've increased the RAM size on both sides, have a blazing fast connection, and use prosumer cameras with good glass and lighting. The boxes on both ends are dedicated to this with nothing else running. I've even met with our campus IT lines to make sure there are blocks or plugs on ports. No good.
I guess its in the CPU or something. It's a bit annoying. I'm a really big fan of iChat. We've used it for "live shots" on election night and as broadband field "live shots" over a 3G telephony connection and wireless broadband. Nothing else we've found is better. It just seems to handle video quality less well in the last couple of versions.
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How to improve poor video quality in iMovie?

I have a movie in iTunes (version 10.6.3). When I play the video, the quality is good on my Mac, on my iPad 3 and on my Apple TV. The Apple TV is hooked to a 42-inch LCD TV.
Next, I open the video file (MP4) using QuickTime Player. I use the Edit and Trim commands to create a 1-minute segment from the video. I save the segment from Quick Time Player. The saved segment is a MOV file. I drag and drop the MOV file back into iTunes. When I play it from iTunes, the quality still is good on all my Apple devices - no noticeable difference from the original.
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