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Re: projection quality -- direct DVI vs DVD
by David Roth Weiss on Feb 17, 2008 at 5:38:51 pm

[harry cheng] "To ensure quality, one idea I had was to export an uncompressed self-contained quicktime movie and run it DVI to the projector from my laptop. To my surprise, the video looked worse than the DVD."

Harry,

Its the DV compression that's hammering your material, especially the text and graphics. Exporting a uncompressed QT from that does nothing more than create an extremely large file from the underlying file compressed using the DV codec.

The solution is very simple, when you're finished editing any DV project, hit Command+0 (thats zero) to open the Sequence Settings, and under the Quicktime Video Settings you will see the Compressor dropdown menu. Change the setting from DV to 8-bit uncompressed. Now re-render your entire timeline.

Now, your text and graphics will be uncompressed and pristine, and any export from that timeline will be uncompressed 8-bit. Both DVDs and exported video files will be many times better than what you had before.

Hope this helps...

David

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