Hey, thank you. Good suggestions. yeah, I was surprised because the MPEG-2 came out so nicely. I don’t even remember how I did that compression though- it was awhile ago- I was compressing to put onto a DVD in DVD Studio Pro.
Well, here are some details if that will help. The project was shot on 16mm, went through telecine to mini DV tape, edited and outputted on DV (i.e. I never went back to film). This may be a dumb question, but could it have to do with the frame rate since I shot on film. I’m guessing No, since I assume the conversion to DV takes care of that.
@paulC I’ve exported it to a full quality Quicktime file through the export to Final Cut Movie, keep self contained option and have an uncompressed file about 2Gb. It’s on my external and I’m cool with it there, but I’d like to have a compressed copy to put on my laptop and itunes (and maybe a lower quality one to stream, later). So I’m assuming this will be the best quality video to compress with another program, right? I’ll look into some other programs.
The file size I’m getting for about 15 minutes of video is around 150MB and I’m okay with that. I’d even be okay with a 200 MB file I think. My worry is that I have the settings wrong ( the frame rate thing) or that I could be oversampling, if that possible, Spargett. I did find a varible bit rate option and am trying that now.
Could it be that I need to de-interlace the video? I’m wondering why the Mpeg-2 turned out fine. As a rough guideline, I tired to follow the compression specs for Hotel Chevelier, the free Wes Anderson film from Itunes, which looks great in Itunes, is around 15minutes, and 150 MB. They probably had some crazy awesome program compressing it though, not to mention much better sources.
thanks