Aagghh!!! H.264!!!
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tripleAAA
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No idea, but maybe you can help me. I edit in Premiere 2.0, and someone told me I should consider exporting my videos as Quicktime vids using H.264, that it looks incredibly better then WMV, but i'm playing around with the export settings and testing Qt and H.264, and I can't get a good export to save my life. The ones that look decent are washed out, like the problem you're having. Any suggestions? I'm trying to export 1280x720 videos, they look great exported as WMVs but this guy insists Qt H.264 will look better and be smaller in file size. Any help would be appreciated!
ChuckS
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I have seen some stunning H264 720P from the Apple website, but I have had no success in encoding with Adobe's Media Encoder with H264. I have had some stunning images in H264 but it took for ever to render and the file was huge compared to the same file encoded with WM9HD.
In standard definition I almost always encoded with quicktime [however I don't know what your freind was talking about regarding file size, they were always bigger than AVI's but much better] but in HD the file sizes are significantly better.
Encoding with the Adobe Media Encoder at constant bit rate of 8k and high quality yields great results.
In standard definition I almost always encoded with quicktime [however I don't know what your freind was talking about regarding file size, they were always bigger than AVI's but much better] but in HD the file sizes are significantly better.
Encoding with the Adobe Media Encoder at constant bit rate of 8k and high quality yields great results.
Demistate
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Try a shoot at Staxrip if you aren't afraid to get your hands dirty in some open source software (PC only, requires .net 2)
http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/
I used it to encode this quicktime compaitble file. (48mb 720P)
http://www.tavproductions.net/test/Dido_Museum_Project(720P).mp4
I'm not sure if good results are possible with Quicktime Pro. I'd love to see a good tutorial.
http://www.planetdvb.net/staxrip/
I used it to encode this quicktime compaitble file. (48mb 720P)
http://www.tavproductions.net/test/Dido_Museum_Project(720P).mp4
I'm not sure if good results are possible with Quicktime Pro. I'd love to see a good tutorial.
idvfilms
Well-known member
Having trouble with QT pro? H.264 IMO is not that great. I use a compression that is clean and smacks H.264 in the face. 3ivx/ I have been getting awesome results and have been using this for about a year now. It's made for both OSX/Windows. Generally for the settings I go in and bring it down to about 90, I can explain more later but you'll get the idea.
i use H.264 all the time and i haven't had any problems...yes the render is a tad longer than WMedia, but "if you can't stand the heat...:
anyway don't know if this will help, but usually when you start quicktime the defualt quality settings are "medium"...before you export you may want to adjust that and if need be use the quicktime effects B/C, HSL, etc.
anyway don't know if this will help, but usually when you start quicktime the defualt quality settings are "medium"...before you export you may want to adjust that and if need be use the quicktime effects B/C, HSL, etc.
Demistate
Veteran
I would suggest reading a little more about h.264
h.264 is a standard for mpeg-4 encoder settings that allows us to all encode a file and allow it to be read with a standard h.264 decoder.
Mpeg-4 has about a hundred options that you can use to encode files, however only a certain combination is a profile in h.264 .
You'll probablly want to do some reading on http://www.doom9.org While this site is mainly a resource for learning how to rip DVDs into Mpeg-4 variants, it can help you as a content producer learn how to properly encode your own source material.
Be prepared to become confused.
h.264 is a standard for mpeg-4 encoder settings that allows us to all encode a file and allow it to be read with a standard h.264 decoder.
Mpeg-4 has about a hundred options that you can use to encode files, however only a certain combination is a profile in h.264 .
You'll probablly want to do some reading on http://www.doom9.org While this site is mainly a resource for learning how to rip DVDs into Mpeg-4 variants, it can help you as a content producer learn how to properly encode your own source material.
Be prepared to become confused.
