Universal Highest Quality Export Option?

I am looking for a universal export option on my iMovie HD movies and iPhoto slide shows. It needs to be the highest quality that Apple TV can take while also being compatible with my iPhone. I've tried the "To AppleTV" option but that one is not compatible with the iPhone. I only want to encode once and not keep two or three different formats of my projects. TV shows and movies I get from the iTunes store are great quality on my TV and also sync to my iPhone. Why can I not accomplish the same? What am I missing? Please help.

Can't be done. You'll want to have two exports.
The iPhone doesn't have any "HD" options and the Apple TV does (720).
Some (most HD versions) you buy at the iTunes Store actually download two different files (one smaller version for the iPhone and iPod). The smaller version is the one that can sync to the iPhone.
Look here for some clues:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-ipod-vi deo-formats-and-display-resolutions/

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Highest quality export

whats the highest quality export for dvd. I have a client who wants to watch it on computer, tv and projection with best quality.
Also, is a video_TS file better quality than a fcp quicktime mov file?

To get the highest quality export for DVD, you will need to buy Compressor 4 and create your own preset -- you will need to calculate the max bps based on the amount of video and the size of the DVD (SL vs DL).
Video_TS isn't a file, it is a folder and part of the structure of the DVD. DVDs use mpeg2, which is highly compressed and there will be a maximum level of quality you can get based on the length of the video.
A quicktime mov file by itself can contain most any codec, and thus any level of quality. But generally speaking, it is meant for viewing on computers, unless you have a streaming solution with something to decode it for the TV.
If your original source is HD, you could consider outputting to blu-ray.

Please help with highest quality export settings...

I have searched the forum and web for hours (no joke!) and I am still trying to figure out what are the best video settings to give me the highest HD quality video in daylight. I am using a Canon HF200 and the latest updated version of FCE. My problem is that I am unable to produce an HD quality video at 1920 x 1080 Full HD without being "jagged". I have two questions; what do you suggest to be the best FCE import and export settings to produce the best HD video, and what settings do you have your HF200 set to (for normal daylight conditions), to produce the best HD video file? The file will be played directly thru my computer to a plasma HDTV.
I have tried several settings, but using anything above 1280x720 16:9, makes the video "jagged". Again, I don't care about the size of the file or how long it takes, I just want the best. Is there something I am missing?
My FCP settings are the following:
I log and transfer the video from the camera into FCP (on a black MacBook; 2.16 GHz with 4 GB RAM) using the AVCHD Apple Intermediate Codec 1920 x 1080i source. I then export the video using the following:
Export using "Quicktime Conversion".
Quicktime options video settings are:
Frame Rate set to "Current"
Key Frames set to every "24" frames
Compressor quality: "best" (Encoding set to "best quality")
Data Rate set to "automatic"
Quicktime options video size are:
"HD 1280 x 720 16:9" (anything higher produces the jags!)
Deinterlace source video is NOT checked
My Canon HF 200 settings are the following:
- P mode
- FXP (17 Mbps)
- 60i framerate
all others are set to the normal default
I have read some reports saying the above is good and others suggesting changing FXP to MXP (24 Mbps) and/or the framerate from 60i to PF30. I don't care about the size of the file, I just want the highest quality HD file.
Any suggestions for the best FCE settings and/or HF200 settings would be very much appreciated!
Thanks for your help,
Evan

Thanks again for the feedback
Let me try my best to answer the above (I'm new at all this and I appreciate you guys taking the time to try and help me out).
First off, I tried rendering and that did not help.
Here is my sequence. I am not going into FCE from the camera directly. I have archived the video file from the camera using iMovie (as well as just making an exact copy of the camera files; they both appear to me to be the exact same, both can be logged and transferred into FCE, and both files give me a jagged FCE result).
Once I log and transfer the file(s), I then take the clip and add it to a sequence file (rendering or not rendering the clip(s) at this point does not make a difference), and then click/highlight the sequence file in the browser and export it.
As for "editing the video in a 1920x1080i60 sequence", I think I am. I am not doing any editing to the clip. It is logged and transferred using the AVCHD Apple Intermediate Codec 1920 x 1080i and then exported using either as a Quicktime Movie or Quicktime Conversion (set for 1920 x 1080 using H.264 compression; both ways still result in a jagged video).
That's about it...log and transfer, add clip to sequence, and then export sequence...
I hope this answers the above, but if not, I apologize; I'm still learning!
Also, if I use iMovie, with similar export (share) settings, I get a non-jagged video (I have tried with deinterlacing and not deinterlacing, and both video results are fine)
Thanks again,
Evan

Definitive Highest Quality Export!

Hi.
Please spell everything out for me, because while I've read responses to similar questions, I don't understand all the steps.
Here's the situation:
• I've imported video from miniDV
• I've edited it in iMovie '08
• I'd like to export my edited movie in as high quality as possible. Doesn't have to be a standard consumer format, just highest possible quality.
So... questions!
1) Using iMovie '08 and nothing else, is it possible to export a lossless version of my movie, and if so, how? (I'd really like to be able to do this - don't mind saving to a hard drive!)
2) If it isn't possible to export a lossless version using iMovie '08, what is the best quality export possible using '08 and how do I achieve this?
3) If I am only able to export a lossless version using iMovie '06, may I work in iMovie '08, open up my finished movie in iMovie '06, and generate the lossless export? If so, how do I do that?
Many thanks in advance.

3) video/codec settings, wouldn't "none" be a better choice for best quality than any compression?Sure it would. However, Matt, and with no disrespect intended, I suspect you have neither actually tested this mode nor computed the storage requirements. If you will, let me play "devil's Advocate" here... An uncompressed VGA SD video with, say AIFF audio, requires about 300 mbps or abour 37.5 MBs of storage space per second. (And HD requires about 6.5-7.0 times as much.) This comes to a bit more than 2 GB/min for SD (about 13.8-14.0 GB/min for HD) which is about 124 GB/hr for SD (or 833 GB/hr for HD). I normally use 6-10 hours of source material to create a 90-120 project. This means i would typically need to store something on the order of 0.75-1.25 TBs of source files for an SD project (or something on the order of 5-8 TBs of source files for an HD project). As you can see, most iMovie '08 users would simply not be prepared to handle such an undertaking as "start to finish" native editing format and would not likely have room for more than one project at a time even if they did. However, I suspect you may be asking from the standpoint exporting your finished project here, and would have to admit that this may be a viable solution if your project is reasonably short, you have sufficient storage space, and you actually see a difference in the output quality and it is worth exporting your project at a file size/data rate 8-10 times greater than your source files.
And if compression were chosen, to confirm, you would choose Apple intermediate rather than H.264 for better quality?
It would be my middleground choice. DV would have a higher video data rate (about 28.5 mbps) and H.264 with an unlimited video data rate less (on the order of 16.0-18.0 mbps) while AIC is typically in 20.0-22.0 mbps range for the VGA SD material I normally use. If I had my rathers, I'd pick a quality limited Animation codec as I prefer the way it renders blacks, its saturation, and encoding speed. Unfortunately, while iMovie '08 can import and edit this codec, it cannot export it to other compression formats. In addition, if I set the quality value too high, coding to Animation tends to "choke" my older system when the data rate exceeds the 280-285 mbps range which is almost the same as using "Uncompressed." So, I usually stick with the AIC codec which was specifically designed as an "intermediate" codec in the first place.
Also to confirm, you find "Movie to Quicktime Movie" provides better quality than "Movie to DV Stream"?
Let's say the "Export Using QuickTime..." has the potential to export with better quality. It all depends on the codec and settings used. Also, do you prefer to export with square pixels or rectangular ones, do you like to sharpen your content as part of the export, do you age your export, add hairs, scratches, or dust, use "B" frames, etc? I do and so I usually use the extra codec, settings, and/or options/features available via this route. Besides, to some extent, quality is mostly in the eye of the behoder and I have to admit that I may not be as "picky" as other users. (I still even watch some old 320x240 ecodings on my HDTV.)

What are highest quality export settings from iMovie to FCE 4.0?

I am using iMovie '08 to create Ken Burns effect movies from iPhoto photos to import into FCE. I want the least amount of loss from iMovie to FCE.
What are the highest quality settings for exporting from iMovie to FCE.
I do not care about size of file etc. Highest quality is all that matters to me.
Cheers,
Chuck

Well here are the facts.
My original question rephrased: "I want to know what are the settings to export Ken Burns created movies (therefore using photos) from iMovie (in this case iMovie '08) with the least loss and regardless of file size for importation into Final Cut Express".
I went to the local Apple store and some of the users (employees) of Final Cut Pro mentioned appropriately they thought .DV would be the best. However when we played some created videos they looked horrible when compared to .MOV with H.264. This just did not make sense, but we went by what we were seeing. Not being able to think with this I did more research and found this article which explained why .DV lookes like pooh pooh compared to H.264 video.
The article http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93002 explains a setting in Quicktime preferences that if not selected some videos appear pixelated.
So, when this preference in Quicktime is selected (never thought to try playing on VLC) the .DV movies look better than those using H.264. So with this resolved then my trial and error testing was realistic. That is I could try different export settings and see which ones looked better to determine the best export setting.
I tried what I thought was everything as far as "Export using Quicktime..." settings. Then I read in "iMovie '08 & iDVD: The Missing Manuals" under "The Video Codecs: A Catalog" an explanation of every type of compression when using the settings under "Movie to QuickTime Movie". Finally someone wrote more data on the codecs. I never found such explanation on the apple website (discussions etc). I really got tired of reading how H.264 is the better than sliced bread "greatest quality for the file size" which I think is true but did nothing to answer my original question. The book then mentioned the option "none". I was like I don't remember this option for "Compression Type". (BTW this all applies to iPhoto '08, Final Cut Express 4, and QuickTime Pro). So I tried "None".
Wow! Zero pixelation! Vivid colors! So I created three videos. One using H.264, DV/DVCPRO - NTSC and None (I had already tried many others but for this last experiment just these three). I also maxed out the Quality for each compressor. Results:
- H.264 colors looked a little faded from the original photos and minor minor fuzziness, file size about 6 MB
- DV/DVCPRO - NTSC colors a little more vivid and less fuzziness, file size about 60 MB
- None...Bam! absolutely photo quality resolution and color, file size about 600 MB. I didn't care about the size.
So, bingo "None" as as the compressor settings in Quicktime to export iMovie '08 Ken Burns effect slide shows for importation into Final Cut Express (FCE) with minimal loss and who cares about the file size. Yeah, this is mammoth file but this allows me to make snappy Extremely High Quality Ken Burns effect videos in iMovie for FCE. Then when I export from FCE I don't make a copy of a copy but make my first compression of the video.
That is my answer!
I consider this thread closed and will only open if I find any of this is incorrect. BTW I already imported the iMovie '08 video with compression "None" into FCE and after rendering it looks awesome and plays well.
Cheers,
Chuck

Highest Quality Export - 720p

Hello all,
I am somewhat new to Adobe Premiere and definitely new to CS5. I have some uncompressed source footage that is recorded at 720p using the FRAPS codec (I recorded it from some PC games). When this source footage is played back, it looks exactly as it the game did when I was playing it. There is no loss in quality whatsoever.
So I import my FRAPS captured videos in Adobe Premiere, do some editing, adjust / add sound tracks. Now I'm ready to export. I cannot for the life of me get the exported quality to come even close to what my source footage looks like.
I have tried several settings, but most recently I've used:
H.264 720p 29.97 High Quality.
NTSC
Field Order: None (Progressive)
Aspect Ratio 16:9
Level 3.2
Checked the box for "Render at maximum depth"
Checked the box for "Maximum Render Quality"
Bitrate: VBR - 2 Pass
Target and Max bitrate 20mbps
My 7 minutes of source video is about 10gb of raw footage. After this exporting it is barely over 1gb. What am I doing wrong? I have an EXTREMELY beefy computer so encoding time isn't an issue. I just want the highest quality video I can get. I can't even read the text from the game.
Thanks for your help.

You need to do a forum search for
fraps
Read all the previous discussions of the problems trying to edit those files

Highest quality export format?

Hello all,
I am working on a video project with one other person, who uses only Final Cut Pro on a Mac. I am using pre11. My task is to take raw .DV input files (720x480, 29.97fps ws), edit them, clean up audio and then send the clips to my associate.
Ideally, I would avoid re encoding by exporting the edited clips as .DV and then sending these files to the other person for integration into the larger project. However, from the adobe "Supported Video Eport Formats" page ( http://tinyurl.com/asw9mvf ) , it appears I am not able to export the finished clips as .DV. So the question is: what is the "next best option"?
Thanks in advanace...

If the files are going to go to the Mac for additional editing, I would use MOV as the container, and then either the Animation CODEC, or the PhotoPNG CODEC.
I receive a lot of material from 3D animatiors, and they output to MOV Animation, which works perfectly on my PC, with Apple's QT on it. The reverse course should be ideal, though the MOV Animation format/CODEC will yield large, but beautiful files.
For "intermediate files," I usually use either the Lagarith, or UT Lossless CODEC, which will be wrapped in a MS AVI wrapper. However, I am not sure if either Lagarith, or UT is available for the Mac. I think so, but have never used them, when the files are leaving my computers. Both are free, both are good, but each machine will need them installed, to work. You might want to check out whether either is Mac-compatible. More info here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4556586#4556586
Good luck,
Hunt

What export options in Quicktime Pro or Final Cut Pro should I select to export HDV video in .MOV files to highest quality Windows-compatible files?

I have some HDV video files imported through iMovie to .MOV files with Apple Intermediate Codec.
I need to convert these to Windows compatible video files of the highest possible ( least loss) quality. What export options in Final Cut Pro or in Quicktime Pro should I select? The codex in the converted files must not be Apple Intermediate Codec, for which there is no Windows version.

Okay, I read the whole Flip4Mac website.
Flip4Mac is an application for Apple computers.
Perhaps my question was unclear. When I posed it I was thinking of asking somebody with an Apple shop to do the conversion for me, and wanted advice on settings for his QUicktime Pro /Final Cut Pro that would produce the highest quality Windows -compatible files.
The Windows version of Quicktime will not play Quicktime files with Apple Intermediate Codec. You get black screen video, although the audio does come through.
So here's what I need: I need a Windows application that will transcode Quicktime files in Apple Intermediate Codec, with no loss or very little loss, to WIndows-compatible files. All Windows, all the time. Thank you.

Export option for highest quality posting to Google video and YouTube

I'm trying to figure out what the best export options are for posting video on Google Video and YouTube. My primary interest is skiing video with quick actions. Here are the 5 options I tried on my iMovie HD 6, the latest and the greatest:
MPEG4, LAN
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2913246368993273712
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL6RHKXydhQ
MPEG4, LAN, High Quality
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1920438333553484589
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0myAYyBx0k
Quicktime, LAN, 320x240, Deinterlace
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2101048758986639008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExhbmBksVs
Quicktime, LAN
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8289794703671829891
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-nwmyJ-y_g
Quicktime, LAN, Deinterlace
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1116022416411494165
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Wch75hTzs
You can get the whole list on each site with following URL
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=imovie-quality-comparison
http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=C0D08A3D961234E4
Each video has cross reference URL in the description which link to the same video posted on other site.
Currently my choice is "Quicktime, LAN, Deinterlace" on Google Video. Only thing I don't like is doubling of image for fast moving part, which somehow disappears if I reduce the size to 320x200, but then it is too blurry when displayed in full screen.
None is usable on YouTube. They look horrible, but there are much better quality videos on YouTube.
Since there are so many knobs to play around on each option, I'm at loss what to play around with. I did quick things like increasing the size to 720x480 or increasing the frame rate, but surprisingly, none seems to make any difference when filtered through their encoder.
I like to solicit suggestions on what option to try. I'll export the same video with that options, upload it to both sites and we can take a look.
eMac & iBook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi — I also found you via Slashdot. You've gone to a good amount of effort to solve this scientifically.
I'm just here to say: Face it, you need to go past the built-in options. Here's what you need to know:
1. YouTube is 320x240 (or 320 by anything lower, for widescreen). You must scale to that.
2. YouTube is 30fps maximum, so if you already have that, set that. If you have 25 or 24, use that. If you have 50, it looks better with 25 (I've tried).
3. The interlacing choice is purely up to your original video. Does it have 480 lines or 576 lines? And if so, does it have fluid "live camera" motion, unlike film? If your answer is yes to both, then you have interlacing. Since YouTube doesn't do interlacing, you need to remove it.
4. Both YouTube and Google Video have a problem with the (seemingly open, standard) MP4 format. We think it's because of the VLC software they used. Anyway, use a QuickTime MOV file for the wrapping container, so export to QuickTime Movie (not MPEG-4). But use the H.264 codec. It's good.
OK, that's it. It's your pretty complete, simple guide to making good YouTube videos.
Don't forget to use a tripod and external microphones, and lay off using the zoom too much. That's my other advice, for earlier in the process. Now you've learnt everything technical The rest is only down to viral marketing and you can learn all that by example out on YouTube.
CK.

Exporting Final Cut timeline in highest quality Quicktime (self-contained)

Hi, I am wondering if you can help me. I just finished editing a film in HDV, 24P in Final Cut Studio 2 and need to export it as a stand alone quicktime file to take it to the color correction people and then for downressing in order to write to DigiBeta tapes.
My question is, do I simply export to Quicktime movie self-contained file using default (current) setting? I also see there are options such as Applre ProRes422 HQ, uncompressed 8bit and 10bit. From what I've heard uncompressed 8 and 10 bit and also apple ProRes422 are higher qualities? Am I wrong?
But going to Uncompressed 8bit or even to Apple ProRes won't make a difference since I only have HDV quality and that's the highest quality I can get anyway?
Please advise.
Thank you

Exporting a self contained QT Movie, and not recompressing will get you an HDV file that is full quality. But unless the facility you are going to has FCP on the machine they load this, they won't be able to see it. Same with ProRes...which would be the better choice for color correcting (10-bit, I-Frame format instead of GOP). ProRes and HDV (and DVCPRO HD) are codecs that only come with FCP, and any computer, even a mac, that doesn't have FCP installed cannot even view those file formats.
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Does exporting "current" provide highest quality/size jpegs?

What are the default settings of the "current" option in exporting photos from iPhoto? Is it the same as choosing jpeg at highest possible quality, best resolution, etc.? I would like to export my photos in iPhoto to an external drive and would like to preserve the highest quality jpeg size/format as originally imported into iPhoto from my camera. I understand that exporting as "original" would do this. However, I have created duplicates of photos and cropped them, and would like to preserve the cropping upon export. Exporting these cropped photos as "original" removes the cropping. Does exporting as "current" export the fullest size and highest quality jpeg possible (for the smaller/cropped image)?
Thanks for advance for any clarification on this.

Export a JPEG and set the quality setting to the highest value
LN

Best print quality on file export options?

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I think it is not so much the outpt file, but the original file format that you used to capture the picture. If you shoot in RAW, then use RAW, if you shoot JPEGs, then JPEG is probably your best option.

Exporting at HIGHEST quality

I am exporting so i can give to master engineer. how do i do it at highest quality? simply make sure compress is UNchecked? I had to reinstall everything on my comp so i lost my settings.
also, GB records at 44,100 kHz, 16 bit, right?
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make sure compress is UNchecked?
yes
GB records at 44,100 kHz, 16 bit,
44.1k, yes.
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When exporting to a DVD from Final Cut Pro X, what settings are there to make sure you making the highest quality DVD possible?

There have been a lot of recent reports of difficulties sharing to DVD, but haven't been hearing about unreadable disks. Posibly there was an encoding error. Or it could have been bad media (blank disk).
Does it play in your Mac?
What brand of disks are you using?
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When exporting a slideshow from iPhoto I'm selecting the highest quality (Display). I noticed that resolution setting (Display) varies depending on which slide show I want to export (i.e. 1000 x 800, or 1420 x 800). Why?

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