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Former user wrote on 8/9/2003, 8:58 PM
Quick Time has several options for quality and file size. Get into the Custom menus and see what you can change to achieve the quality that you want.

Dave T2
[r]Evolution wrote on 8/13/2003, 12:33 AM
SoFo Quicktime is definitely not the best. I think it has something to do with QT being a MAC editors format(FinalCutPro). I've read many times that AVI is going out of style. Why? I don't know and can never seem to find good reasons for the theory. Maybe it's because MAC natives are writing what I read. Maybe it's because they don't have all the necessities to build a codec that is as good. APPLE is know for their patents. That's why their is only 1 APPLE/MAC manufacturer. They have definitely taken care of all legalities and such. But for whatever reason it is... SoFo Quicktime is not very good at all. I would suggest using CLEANER or some other software to convert your files. I usually do all my work in AVI, render to AVI, then use DISCREET CLEANER to convert my file types. This is best done at night. I load up my batch fo files to be converted in CLEANER, hit convert, and go to bed. It's pretty stable too. There's only been a few times when I've awakened to find that it has crashed or not complete. But be aware that you do have to have enough drive space to do this as you will have both AVI's & MOV's on your drives.

As DaveT2 mentioned, try some of the custom settings to see if you get any better results, but I've tried and still come out with crap. Besides I hate that you have to 'play' with settings to find what's best. By using CLEANER I don't have to do this. I jus tell it QUICKTIME and it does it. Plus, this is what it was made for so I feel that it's codecs give a bit more quality.

But just to be fair, this may just be my perception and not truth. My method gives me my desired output quality and outputting QUICKTIME straight from VEGAS does not.

Lamont
farss wrote on 8/13/2003, 6:54 AM
I may be wrong here and if so I'd love to hear the true story.

As I understand it QT is much the same as AVI, neither of them define an encoding spec as such, rather they define a wrapper that tells a player about the contents.

If my assumption is correct then the same encoded video stream could be put inside either a QT or AVI wrapper and should look identical. Thats not to say that you could do it with every stream type but I am under the impression that some of them can exist inside both.


Anyone able to shine some light on this?
RBartlett wrote on 8/13/2003, 7:05 AM
Folks with PCs usually add QuickTime Pro (US$30) to unstick the read and encoding capabilities on Windows. If Vegas isn't improved after the purchase - QuickTime Pro has an encoder (not too unlike WMEncoder from Microsoft) that suits.

You might also get the ability to read .swf files into apps via QuickTime Pro 6.
Caveat Emptor - XP users should do a rollback entry before installing.