FCE problem

[Piccoevo]

I have been using FCE 2 for a while, and it has served me well for the last few years, but when I export a movie as a quicktime movie at 720x480, the footage looks poor. What am I doing wrong? Do you think upgrading to FCE 4 would help?

[j1clark@ucsd.edu]

I have been using FCE 2 for a while, and it has served me well for the last few years, but when I export a movie as a quicktime movie at 720x480, the footage looks poor. What am I doing wrong? Do you think upgrading to FCE 4 would help?

If FCE has been serving well... how is it that now the quicktime output looks poor...

The thought does occur to me, that if you have only been printing video back to a tape, for display on a 'Real'(tm) TV monitor or display, then you have not seen the problems of output of DV for 'computer/internet' display.

The problems are then, at least that occur to me straight off...

1) DV, having 'rectangular' pixels, being displayed on a computer with 'square' pixels, at sizes that exceed 640x480 (the square pixel frame size in terms of pixels...).

2) Using compression parameters that degrade the image even further. Since you don't mention what codec you are using in generating the Quicktime, movie, I can't elaborate further...

[Piccoevo]

I mostly print to tape. It looks good on on a tv. I have tried H.264, WMV, DV, and Apple Animation. Apple Intermediate looked the best, but it still looked pixlated. I even exported it without compression, and the video still looked poor. Am i using the wrong codec?

[AwakenedFilms]

Sounds like you may be seeing interlaceing lines on your computer monitor, (they are there on the TV too, but are hidden to the naked eye).

If this is the case, try de-interlacing for web/computer output.


Jason

[Piccoevo]

I de-interlaced the video. Thats not the problem. The video looks fine in final cut, but when I export it, it looks bad. The problem is in exporting. What are good settings for exporting a quicktime movie?