Exporting widescreen Quicktime problems...

Please share your current export setting with us. Many of us will be able to spot your problem with a quick glance, but we need to know what you're doing in the first place....

Ben Unguren
Motion Graphics & Editing
http://www.mostlydocumentary.com

Thanks for your replies.

To add to my confusion I'm in Britain so I'm after PAL settings rather than NTSC, but surely the screen dimensions are the same?

The export settings that I've used so far are

Format: Quicktime
Preset: PAL DV Widescreen
Video Codec: DV PAL

With these settings I am not able to alter the width and height as they are greyed out and locked at 720x576. There is also no option anywhere I can see to change the PAR. The resulting video played in Quicktime Player (set to 'fullscreen') or VLC fills the screen vertically but has black bars to the left and right (See below).In the program monitor window in Premiere my footage fills the frame completely.


I simply want to export it as a widescreen Quicktime (or even an avi) but I still can't seem to work it out. It's driving me mad!

Thanks again for your help, it's greatly appreciated.

Still no luck. I've posted the export window below (x3) so you can see my settings and options and see if there's an obvious answer as to what Im doing wrong. Thanks.

Got it!

I was interpreting the footage to PAR 1.0 but I was missing the Aspect settings in the export options. Phew.

Im now struggling to find a codec that works though!
I'd happily use an AVI file rather than Quicktime which it seems you may be more familiar with... could you suggest a full quality (SD not HD) codec that works well for you?

And again, thank you for your time and help.

The finished video will go to DVD and also online. If it ever gets finished!

I've tried H.624 but the quality isnt great at all.

What codec would I use for a DVD?

Apologies for all the questions but I've been tearing my hair out for days over this.

Ha, ok. I'll get experimenting with the MPEG 2 settings now!

Would the correct H.246 settings be similar to what you have discussed earlier?

Is there a website with all of this info compiled somewhere!? If not then there' a definite gap in the market!

The clip will go to YouTube and Vimeo initially but the quality needs to be as high as possible really as it's a showreel for a budding actor.

Thanks for your time and patience Jeff, you've really helped me out and though I've still got a way to go, I think I'll be able to sleep tonight now! Much appreciated.

Stuart.