Movie Settings: Export Size Settings

What's the difference between COMPRESSOR NATIVE and CURRENT settings under dimensions?

Hey Brian
rather than tell you the answer to yoru first question, i will show you and you can see the etchnical speak of the 640x480 and 720x480 pixel battle.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/PixelFrames.aspx#co nvertingdigitalvideo
even though it's WM, it applies to all digital video files.
as far as yoru second question goes, i would HIGHLY recommend .mp4, since h.264 is VERY processor intensive.
it looks like you have done some searched on this board already, so you can see why i recommend .mp4 over the "cool" h.264.
anyway, goodluck
Mikey M.

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Exporting Movie Settings - HELP!

Hello
I'm creating various movies on iMovie '08 and intend to burn them to DVD using iDVD. Once they are ready to be exported...what options are best to choose (bearing in mind I want to burn these to DVD). Is it best to choose 'Export Movie', or 'Export using QuickTime' ??
What is the best file format and video compression settings to choose? I really want a good quality finish when played back on DVD.
Hope this make sense and you can help!
Regards!

Hi
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If You use miniDV tape material or interlaced material then iMovie'08 or 09 are not the tool at all due to that it trashes every second line.
I would use iMovie 1 to HD 6 or FinalCut Express or Pro.
How to export any good quality from iM08 or 09 is to others to explain.
*BUT on DVD quality*
1. iDVD 08 & 09 has three levels of qualities.
iDVD 6 has the two last ones
• Professional Quality (movies up to 120 min.) - BEST
• Best Performances (movies less than 60 min.) - High quality on final DVD
• High Quality (in iDVD08 or 09) / Best Quality (in iDVD6) (movies up to 120 min.) - slightly lower quality than above
2. From
• FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov (not selfcontaining, no conversion)
• iMovie x-6 - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos. Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
• iMovie’08 not meant to go to iDVD. Go via Media Browser or rather use iMovie HD 6 from start.
3. I use Roxio Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly eg x1 (in iDVD’08 or 09 this can also be set)
This can also be done with (Apple) Disk Util tool.
4. There has to be about or more than 25Gb free space on internal (start-up) hard disk. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc).
5. Verbatim ( also recommended by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW)
7. Keep NTSC to NTSC - or - PAL to PAL when going from iMovie to iDVD
8. Don’t burn more than three DVD at a time - but let the laser cool off for a while befor next batch.
iDVD quality also depends on.
• HOW much free space is there on Your internal (start-up) hard disk. Go for approx 25Gb.
less than 5Gb and Your result will most probably not play.
• What kind of movie project You drop into it. MPEG4 seems to be a bad choice.
other strange formats are .avi, .wmv, .flash etc. Convert to streamingDV first
Also audio formats matters. I use only .aiff or from miniDV tape Camera 16-bit
strange formats often problematic are .avi, .wmv, audio from iTunes, .mp3 etc
Convert to .aiff first and use this in movie project
• What kind of standard - NTSC movie and NTSC DVD or PAL to PAL - no mix.
(If You need to change to do a NTSC DVD from PAL material let JESDeinterlacer3.2.2 do the conversion)
(Dropping a PAL movie into a NTSC iDVD project
(US) NTSC DVDs most often are playable in EU
(EU) PAL DVDs most often needs to be converted to play in US
UNLESS. They are plabacked by a Mac - then You need not to care
• What kind of DVDs You are using. I use Verbatim DVD-R (this brand AND no +R or +/-RW)
• How You encode and burn it. Two settings prior iDVD’08 or 09
Pro Quality (only in iDVD 08 & 09)
Best / High Quality (not always - most often not)
Best / High Performances (most often my choise before Pro Quality)
1. go to iDVD pref. menu and select tab far right and set burn speed to x1 (less errors = plays better) - only in iDVD 08 & 09
(x4 by some and may be even better)
2. Project info. Select Professional Encoding - only in iDVD 08 & 09.
Region codes.
iDVD - only burn Region = 0 - meaning - DVDs are playable everywhere
DVD Studio pro can set Region codes.
1 = US
2 = EU
Yours Bengt W

Anamorphic check box- movie settings?

Read this on Graeme's site, which by the way is incredibly helpful (Thanks!!), does this really work, it doesn't just trim your footage or anything? If so, how do we find the "movie settings"? Is this the same as the "sequence presets"? Thanks!
"If you capture anamorphic widescreen video without the anamorphic checkbox checked, all is not lost as you can just open the movie properties in Final Cut Pro and set the video to be anamorphic."

Look in the bin containing your footage. Scroll to the right until you get to the ANAMORPHIC column. Put a check mark into the column next to the clip and BOOM...it is full screen.
Nothing is trimmed.
Shane

Export size it HUGE

how can i export my movie in less size, i have 7min movie that is coming out as a Quicktime .mov just under a GB. I would like to host it on YouTube so 100MB would be ideal

Use QT Conversion not QT Movie. You will want to play with the settings but h264 should get you there.

Export size (QT)

Hi,
I have a small Quick Time mov file (720x480, 205 MB, 54 sec, DV/DVCPRO - NTSC). My intent is to import it into iMovie 09, clear some of the camera jitter, export it again into QT, and import that file into Final Cut Express for editing. If I import into iMovie 09, and then immediately, without performing any edits or other changes, export using 'movie to Quick Time Movie', the file size is greatly increased, 4x with low quality, over 10x with high quality settings.
Two questions. Why?
And, I would like, in the end, a file about the same size and quality as the original (but with less jitter). How do I do this?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Ray

Raymond:
What does your reply mean? "Bump"?

Aspect ratio issues in iDVD with mov files exported from FCE

Please help. I believe this is an iDVD bug. I have found some relevant discussion of it on online forums - but have not found a solution that works for me. I am looking for a workaround.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1356500&tstart=31
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
My 4:3 movies, exported from FCE in QT-with-conversion formats (any 4:3 format) - appear in iDVD with gray side-pillars (as expected for 4:3) AND with a black line (letter-boxing) at top and bottom - as would be for 16:9. It appears the aspect ratio is also distorted i.e. 16:9. (The iDVD project is set to 4:3.)
1- A 4:3 mov file exported from FCE using Quicktime Movie format (no conversion) does not have the problem, but I cannot de-interlace the video using this export mode.
2) A 4:3 mov file exported using QT-with-conversion mode (any 4:3 format) DOES have the problem. I need to use this mode in order to get de-interlace.
(Exception: 640x480 VGA mode does not have the black lines, and it displays correctly in dvd player on my computer screen - but on the TV screen, it crops content from the top and bottom of the movie, so this is not an option.)
3) In Finder, if you click on mov file exported QT-only (no conversion), it opens in the FCE viewer. If you click on mov file exported in any other 4:3 mode, it opens in Quicktime viewer (i.e. there is absolutely something different in the header/ID of these files.)
4) All mov files, regardless of export mode, show correctly in Quicktime viewer - no black line, no distortion. The problem does not occur outside of iDvd.
5) I tried passing the QT-with-conversion mov files through an Inverse-Anamorphicizer (per suggestion on forum - this apparently fixed the problem for some people) but the resulting output mov (i.e. the inverted product) still had the same problem.
I am, so far, left with this trade-off: Give up the de-interlacing, or live with the letter-boxing/ distortion. Neither is acceptable.
I am looking for a workaround:
1) A way to export de-interlaced 4:3 mov from FCE that shows in correct ratio in iDVD
2) A way to "convert" / re-head mov file after exported so that it displays corrrectly (inverse-anamorphicize) so that iDVD reads it correctly
3) Can the mov be de-interlaced after the fact (so I could use QT export without conversion)?
4) Something besides iDVD to put this together - that doesn't have this problem? (I like and want to use the iDVD menu/theme.)
5) Other?????
I also notice that all the QT-with-conversion mov files are 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the QT-only mov file, which is valuable and preferable to me. (I don't see any quality difference in the display...)

In the Preview window > top frame > middle button
do you have correct for pixel aspect ratio checked or not?
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Problem with export size @ Premiere CS3

Hello, I have a problem that until recently did not bother me so much and that the final export @ the premierCS3 ( also @ CS4 and CS5 )
The films I make are 5-10 minutes long, so usualy the final size is big, but still not THAT BIG! and i can work with this size.
Lately I've edited a feature film and the final export is 25GB and it simply intolerable that even after encodings using simple software I got to 7Gb and quality went down significantly.
How do I solve this trouble? I do not think that movie that long (1h:45m) should be bigger than 1GB!!
Hope you can help me
Wishing you a good week,
ROEi.

Go to the PPro FAQ List http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/faq_list and read about export options
A DV AVI file is about 13Gig per hour... export size is determined by the CODEC and compression used, plus the data rate
Some CODECS have better compression than others, and a higher data rate will create a larger file
You need to tell what CODEC you are using for export, and what data rate

Does export size alter aspect ratio?

Hi, I asked a smilar question in the imovie community but thought it would be better here. Though the nuance of this question is a bit different...
I created a montage of old pictures and video clips in iMovie '11 and need to eventually create a DVD in 4:3 aspect ratio. I exported the movie in 1080p (1920X1080).
a few questions:
1. Does the HD export size matter and will iDVD try to sqeeze the widescreen format into a 4:3 ratio?
2. Should I instead export it as large 960X540 to prevent problems when I make the DVD?
3. How does export size affect the ultimate aspect ratio? ( saw some similar posts but not really what I need to know)
thanks

Since you're using iMovie 11 use the Share ➙ Media Browser menu option and, yes, select the Large size.
Do not use the Share ➙ iDVD option since that throws away every other line of the movie resulting in a greatly reduced image quality.
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatium, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
OT

I used scripting brigde to add a movie that has size bigger than 5GB, exactly after two minutes iTunes return a failed, but the processing of the file is actually added to iTunes Library successfully. The copying take more than 5 minutes to complete. Why?

I used scripting brigde to add a movie that has size bigger than 5GB, exactly after two minutes iTunes return a failed, but the processing of the file is actually added to iTunes Library successfully. The copying take more than 5 minutes to complete. Why the iTunes Scripting Brigde returned failed when it is actually success? It occurred exactly 2 minutes after submit the request to Scripting Brigde. Is this 2 minutes related to the Apple Event time out? if it does, how do I get around this problem? thx

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QuickTime Can't Read Movie I Exported From iMovie

QuickTime is telling me it can't read a movie I exported using iMovie. The movie is saved as a .mp4 which I have used QuickTime to read in the past. Any suggestions?
Thanks

In the Videos App. That is where downloaded movies appear and that is where you play them - not in iTunes.

I lost a movie during exporting.

I lost a movie while exporting it from Photo Booth to Imovie. I can't find it in the trash or in Finder. Any ideas where it went?

Have you tried Spotlight? If no success, download Easy Find and see if that helps:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11076/easyfind
Ciao.

Importing iPhone movies increases file size 3-4x

I imported clips from various sources into iMovie11, then I compared the files in the iMovie Events folder to the original files.
1. AVI movies are identical to the original files (file size and picture size - 640x480), regardless if I select "large 960x540" or "full size" when importing. So far so good.
2. However, Movies that were taken by iPhone 4 (MOV, original picture size 1280x720) end up 3-6x larger.
    2.1. If I select "full size" when importing, then the new file size is 6x larger than the original. (Picture size same as original, as expected.)
    2.2. If I select "large 960x540" then the new file size is still 3x larger than original. (Picture size shrinks to 960x540, as expected).
3. Same experiment with iPhone3 movies (MOV, original picture size 640x480)
    3.1 If I select "full size" then the file size is 3.5x larger than original.
    3.2 If I select "large 960x540" then the file size stays the same.
   (Picture size stays the same, 640x480 as expected in both cases.)
Now this is somehow consistent with the changes in movie format and data rate:
- In the cases 1 and 3.2 above, nothing changes from original to new (AVI format "motion jpeg open dml", MOV format "h.264").
- In the case 2 and 3.1, format changes from "h.264" to "Apple intermediary codec" and data rate goes up by a factor of 6 and 4, respectively.
FPS stays the same in all cases.
Can someone explain why it iMovie does this.
No segments of the new clips are duplicated, and they are not padded with gray or garbage like I've seen in other posts.
Thanks in advance

Motion JPEG is already an i-frame codec like DV or AIC so there is no advantage to converting to AIC. Each frame is a compressed JPEG.
I have some Motion JPEG that I received from a service that digitized some old 8MM film for me in 1080P. The Motion JPEG worked fine in iMovie.
The iPhone 3 created h.264 in smaller dimensions, like 640x480 (although I can't remember for sure). With smaller h.264 files, your Mac may have the processor power and memory to convert the h.264 on the fly as you render. For larger h.264 files like 720P and 1080P, most Macs do not have enough power, so you are better off converting to AIC.
So with the iPhone 3, you can make the choice yourself. You can convert them if you see a performance issue. Otherwise, edit them as is. To convert them, right-click on the Event, and choose "Optimize Media".

Why won't .MOV files export from Lightroom?

Why won't .MOV files export from Lightroom?

The will.
Or at least they can, and do, sometimes, if you have good MOV karma..
Why not supply a little more info, like:
* Which OS
* Which version of Lightroom
* History of MOV files.
* Export format.
* Do other video types export OK
* How many different MOV files have you tried - all with the same history?
and of course:
* What, exactly, happens, when you try?
Rob.

How can I tell if the quicktime movie I export from Final Cut Express through Quicktime to IDVD is anamorphic

How can I tell if the quicktime movie I export from Final Cut Express through Quicktime to IDVD is anamorphic

Find the Seuence icon in the Browser that corresponds to the Timeline.
Right click the Sequence icon in the Browser.
Select Item Properties.
All info is revealed.
Al

Export size from aperture to photostream

Is there any way of configuring what size of image is uploaded to the photostream?
As a DSLR user using large RAW files in aperture, when I tested the photostream option it doesn't give you an export size, it seems to copy the full size image over which took an absolute age for 4 images.
If it's going to take that long, it kind of defeats the object of having it in the first place, as I wanted just small versions to be able to view and show people on my iPad.
Any help would be appreciated.

As I have read from MacCreate.com and as I have tried and tested, Photo Stream on Aperture 3 uploads the native files to iCloud. So if you import RAW only files, it uploads RAW and pushes it to your devices. I imported some RAW photos on my iMac yesterday, when I open up my MacBook this morning it downloaded the same RAW files.
MacCreate suggested though if you import RAW + JPEG into Aperture, it will only upload the JPEG version.

What Is The Difference Between Save As Self-Contained Movie and Exporting

What Is The Difference Between Save As Self-Contained Movie and Exporting a Video as a Quicktime File

Save As places the file inside a .mov container. No re-encoding.
Your still have the option to save this file as "self-contained" (all the parts travel with the file) or "reference" (small file sized movie that merely "points" to the movie parts).
A reference movie can't play if the source files can't be found. If they are moved or deleted the reference movie will fail and it can't be re-created.
Exporting is done to convert one QuickTime format to another. Typically you do this with a high quality source file. Exporting previously compressed files is a bad idea that leads to unpredictable results.
QuickTime doesn't open WMP formats without third party software help (Flip4Mac is one). You can't convert (export) WMP formats without paying extra fees to upgrade their software.

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