Exporting Quickime Movie

[imryankohler]

I'm having a horrible time trying to get a nice image when exporting my project to a quicktime movie in Final Cut. In the project window the image is perfect, but then i get huge interlacing line artifacts when i export. Anyone know the right settings? I'm shooting in 24pA and capturing with a 2:3:3:2 pulldown removal. Thanks guys.

[Michael T]

Are your sequence settings the same for out put as for the sequence or are edditing in?

[VaricamLife]

Exporting how exactly? Are you just doing a quicktime movie (then it would sound like a sequence setting issue as mentioned above)? Are you doing a quicktime conversion? If so, what settings are you using there? And same if you're doing a Compressor output of any kind?

Also, what are you viewing this stuff on that you're seeing the interlaced problems? If the interlace problems appear on your computer monitor, then go get a broadcast monitor and check again. Your computer monitor is unreliable at best for such a task.

cheers.

[imryankohler]

Yeah I'm exporting quicktime movie. I'm pretty sure my settings are the same, the "use current settings" box is marked. Im viewing the exported film on my computor monitor and it comes out horrible. But while im editing it looks very nice.

[VaricamLife]

Ahh see you said the magic words there "Computer Monitor." You have to take a feed out to a broadcast monitor, or at least a TV set for any kind of quality judgement. The computer monitor isn't meant for that purpose, and well does a really bad job in previewing videos like that. A cheap and easy way, firewire out from the computer to your camera, and then svideo from the camera to your monitor. Not desirable but it'll do the job. However if you have a Kona or BlackMagic video card, well then just go out from that to a monitor and you'll get a proper image to analyze. Good luck.

cheers.

[psomers]

Ahh see you said the magic words there "Computer Monitor." You have to take a feed out to a broadcast monitor, or at least a TV set for any kind of quality judgement. The computer monitor isn't meant for that purpose, and well does a really bad job in previewing videos like that. A cheap and easy way, firewire out from the computer to your camera, and then svideo from the camera to your monitor. Not desirable but it'll do the job. However if you have a Kona or BlackMagic video card, well then just go out from that to a monitor and you'll get a proper image to analyze. Good luck.

cheers. Are you implying that a Quicktime export of 24PA footage creates an interlaced movie? That's what it sounds like when you say you need to see it on an NTSC monitor. I have the same problem as originally described: a 24PA sequence looks great in FCP but has interlacing artifacts in standalone Quicktime created via Quicktime export. Is there a way to get it to export in a progressive mode, for web or progressive DVD viewing? Thanks for any insights.

[VaricamLife]

No no, not saying that it creates an interlaced file, it just that your computer monitor is not designed to be a quality control device. Its meant for content creation. And web videos are a whole other beast altogether. I would never QC something exported for web as my QC for the overall output (unless that is your only output, then get into the web settings and yah watch it on the computer screen and see what you get). As for the DVD, well output to a DVD and then go stick it in a DVD player and watch it on a progressive capable TV set (and make sure the DVD player is progressive capable as well). I think there is a good 24p vs 24pA, and how to go to DVD, and all the like article on Ken Stone. Also, NoahK (a regular poster here) I believe has some kind of guide for that kind of stuff.

cheers.

[psomers]

Well, I used Compressor to create both a .mov movie for the web and a .m2v file to use in creating a DVD. In both cases, the results were better than the plain quicktime export (even when I used the file resulting from quicktime export as input to Compressor). So I guess the lesson is, use Compressor. Viewing the Compressor .mov file on the computer monitor looked great, same as within FCP. I still don't understand why the uncompressed quicktime export looked bad, but at least now I know what to do.