Quicktime / Procoder Express help needed.

[gapmedia]

Hello all,

I occassionally get asked for Quicktime files in H.264 and MPEG4 formats which is fine.

However, using Procoder Express I never seem to be able to output a MOV file in these formats that can compete in quality and file size with what I can output from Procoder Express using WMV 9.

Using WMV9 with a datarate of 300kbps and even less using 2 pass encoding, gives me very watchable video at 320x240 (25fps PAL) even blown up to 200% it is quite watchable.

I seem to have to go to at least 3x or more in datarate to achieve anything near this quality with Quicktime?!

Am I missing something with these codecs or is it just more Apple...?

Thanks for any help.

Simon

[THoff]

Try this:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showpost.php?p=759673&postcount=7

[gapmedia]

Thanks for the info THoff, and sorry for the delay in replying!

I guess I'll have to get Quicktime Pro to get access to the 'finer' settings for the H.264 codec to get the results I was expecting.

[THoff]

Without having QuickTime Pro, you don't get H.264 encoding, PERIOD, end of story -- it's not available in the free version of QuickTime.

[gapmedia]

THoff,

It comes up as a codec option under Quicktime export in Procoder Express on my systems(?). Certainly, it only has few encoding settings available and doesn't look good until a high data rate is used.