Read this first if you're lost: Best encoding Practices

[Demistate]

thanks for the ideas!
i checked the properties again. my d90 shoots its 720P footage at 1280x720 so that is correct already.
what i did wrong initially was to edit the footage with a frame rate of 25 instead of 24/23.976 ... it doesnt jump or anything in the preview window- only after i export it.
so i copied the edited footage from the original sequence into a sequence with the correct frame rate. i think the jumpiness of the footage after its exported might be caused by the distortion due to copying the footage between sequences with different frame rates (??)
i was hoping there was some way to remove this distortion, rather than having to re-edit the footage...

Sequence settings don't follow clips. Make sure that the native resolution, frame rate, and frame size match the clip and sequence setting.

[jpsheets]

Great tips here! Question though, what's the best compression technique for putting your film on withoutabox and submitting through them?

best,
Jonathan

[Demistate]

Great tips here! Question though, what's the best compression technique for putting your film on withoutabox and submitting through them?

best,
Jonathan

I would find out what settings they are asking for and follow them in your compressing software.

[jpsheets]

I should have been more specific in my post. They don't offer any guidlines which is strange. But I just used quicktime compressor w/o changing any settings and it uploaded just fine.

[DGW]

Nice summary here...good job!

[saturnin]

good thread... subsribed