QuickTime High Quality flag

Coursedesign wrote on 3/8/2005, 2:22 PM

I just stumbled upon this on the Synthetic Aperture web site:

"... setting the high quality flag in DV-compressed QuickTime movies. By default, DV movies do not have this flag set, leading many people to wonder why their DV movies look fine when played to tape, but look so bad on the computer monitor. The reason for not setting this flag is to get better performance when displaying the video on the computer monitor, but it yields a blocky, blurred image."

Is this the secret trick of better QT encoding? Anybody heard of this?

Comments

filmy wrote on 3/8/2005, 5:01 PM

I went through this at one time - something Main Concept related changed my DV decoder settings. There is a setting for decoding DV - for me this has always been full but sometimes it can get changed to half or quater. If you do a search for "PEL size" on the Main Concept forums you will find my posts about it.

Coursedesign wrote on 3/8/2005, 5:30 PM

Thanks!