Quicktime Movie Properties and FCP

If I open a file in Quicktime, and go to Movie Properties, there is a button for High Quality, which seems to sharpen the image. Can anyone tell me exactly what it does - is it just a sharpening filter? If it really is improving the playback quality, can you select this as enabled when exporting from FCP?
Cheers
Steve

By default, QT Movies are set to NOT playback at highest quality when playing back on your system. There's a freeware program called HiQual you can use that sets the high quality flag automatically when you drop a QT movie on it: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14255
-DH

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How can you import QuickTime (.mov) videos and which settings for the sequence?
Please reply in plain English or if possible in German
Greetings from Vienna, Peter

I have not installed Quicktime.
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Goodmorning!
I am planning to make a stand alone movie of my footage that I can keep and watch on my iMac. My sequence was made on FCP 7 on 1920 x 1080 with Prores 422 codec.
I did a few tests with exporting to quicktime movie (standard settings), because I have read several times that converting this way results in more or less the same quality. When I compare the videoquality of the Quicktime movie with playing the footage on the timeline fullscreen (+view-external video-all frames+), I am very disappointed. Not only is the sharpness of the quicktime movie less than the original, the movie plays very choppy (not fluently at all) .
My question is: is that result to be expected? May I compare a quicktime movie with the original as described before?
Or maybe I should export the sequence in a more sophisticated way?
The quicktime outcome was about 30 seconds and resulted in a file of about 500 MB. My wish is that the size of the file will not be bigger.
I hope that you can help me. Thanks in advance.

Tom,
Three times "correct" to your three questions.
Opened the exported file in the QuickTime player, Movie Inspector said:
Structure: Apple ProRess 422 , 1920 x1080 (1888 x 1062) millions, 16-bit integer (little indian) Stereo 48000 khz
Bps: 25
Size: 561,7 MB
Speed: 118,53 Mbit/s
Current size: 1882 x 1058 pixels
If I run the sequence through JED deinterlacer, the movie gets a better flow. Of course the sharpness deminish a bit too.
I hope that you can help me.
Would export in H.264 be a better option?
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2cute2b2smart wrote:
I don't know where the problem is.
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Dimensions: 1280x720
The specifications you listed are the problem.
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