DV PC vs Mac

Edward wrote on 9/29/2005, 3:45 PM

Is there a difference between .mov DV and .avi DV? I rendered a clip on FCP 4 with the quicktime dv codec, and it looked like CRAP. Normally what I see from Vegas looks pretty good. Am I missing something here?

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busterkeaton wrote on 9/29/2005, 6:18 PM

.avi is Digital Video for windows and .mov is Quicktime video.

Actually both are what is known as "wrappers" around digital video. With the avi tags, you can have several different types of video made with different codecs. It can have different bitrates which could affect the look.

Do you know what template you used?

You can make excellent looking avi and excellent looking mov files, so it probably was something else going on.

GlennChan wrote on 9/29/2005, 8:15 PM

I don't thin quicktime performs that well in Vegas. It was kind slow last time I tried anyways...

2- I believe when you make a quicktime DV file, it uses the apple DV codec to decode. it may decode things a little differently than AVI.

gamma, and 0-255 versus 16-235 (color space)

3- This sounds stupid, but if you print off to miniDV tape you can get a good quality transfer. AVI uncompressed (or a lossless codec) would also work.

4- Where you view things on will make a difference. If it's DV, view the material on an external monitor.
FCP can be extremely misleading when you look at the windows in there.
DV quicktime played back on PC should have the high quality setting enabled.