Quicktime ..... does anyone actually use it ?

Well, I have to use it because a client has requested a copy of a 60 minute short film as a quicktime movie.
Now let me begin by saying that I have this as both a divx and a wmv file at full resolution (720x405) and for the most part it looks virtually uncompressed. It looks great, almost identical to the vob off of a dvd i created. SO, near dvd quality.
Here's my findings trying to make a quicktime i can upload to an ftp server, rendering out of after effects 7.0 and with quicktime pro installed (the latest version)
Sorenson movie at a huge 40mb looks so riducously compressed its laughable .... it almost looks like the movie was 1/10th of the proper resolution and then scaled up to make one big huge blocky mess. Some shots you can't even make out whats in the frame and what the picture is, let alone any detail.
90MB cinepak compressed mov is also unbelievably blocky, unacceptably so. Also, if theres a moving camera or stuff moving in frame sometimes bits of it don't move as if the compression algorithms are trying to prevent portions of the frame moving. Settings are medium quality (obviously high quality and you'd be looking at something like a 500mb file !!!! thats 5 times bigger than the dvd vob i created !)
A full resolution mp4 file came out at 60mb and its still not as good looking as the divx and wmv encoded files.
An H.264 first of all removes all the contrast from the movie so it looks all milky... and then its 59mb. But here's the real clanger, thats at half resolution, a measly 360x200. Pathetic. What is H.264 ??? Technology from the dark ages ?
A half size mpeg 4 file with data rate limited to 500K comes out at the same filesize as the full resolution one !!!! i.e. 60mb .. and its still not a patch quality wise on the 25mb windows counterparts.
I will continue testing but please in the meantime, if there is some secret to thsi quicktime nonsense then do let me know.
kind regards

How large in file size are your divx or WMP files?
Don't use Sorenson 3 included with QT Pro (they sell a "Pro" version that includes more options).
The Cinepak codec is nearly 15 years old. It's only included to maintain some backward compatibility.
If you use H.264 you can achieve great looking results. But since you're trying to compress an hour (of video and audio, 13GB in DV format and probably close to 1GB in your divx file) into a file size you can upload via FTP you're compressing too much.
Convert the file using H.264 at its current size to an .mp4 or .mov file and burn it to CD (if it will fit) or DVD and mail it to your client. I send DVD's in mail (costs about $.84 in postage) all the time.

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