Exporting MOV files from Premiere Pro/Aspect HD?

[Tom Lowe]

Hi. I am having a great deal of trouble exporting video to Quicktime format. I use Premiere Pro + Aspect HD. I can encode to WMV brilliantly, and the results are very impressive. I can encode a 200MB AVI down to a 50MB WMV file and still maintain high quality in 720x1280.

When I try to export to Quicktime, however, the results are terrible. If I set the H264 to 50% quality, the resulting video is not only bigger than the original, but the quality is awful! What am I doing wrong here?

What if I pay the $20 or whatever it is for Quicktime Pro. Will that help me? Can I encode AVI files directly with Quicktime Pro?

thanks

 

[Jmtasu]

I use quicktime pro to convert my avi to qt, as I have the same problems with Premiere.

Beware though, it takes the quicktime program a long time to do this, longest thing I ever encoded was a 9 minute short and I think it took about 2 hours to encode - my computer is crap, but still.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Ok, so I have a quicktime pro account # and name, from my brother. I updated my quicktime player, and now all the Pro options are available, but where is the encoder part?

Sorry if this is a really stupid question.