This situation means that even if buying quicktime pro, the process will be more of a pain than your current export from video editing app.
Because now you will have to save your video timeline to an intermediate format, which will then be loaded into quicktime pro (or alternative) to be encoded. To get decent quality, your intermediate format needs to be high quality and bitrate, perhaps native DV format if thats what your source camera is, and so long as your video editing app doesnt take too long to export it. Its a time/filespace/quality balance as to what you use, something people dont need to worry about if the right export options are available straight from their video editing app. Also bear in mind quicktime is not the only h264 encoder available for Windows or mac, here is my assessment of pro's and cons of Quicktime versus other options: pro's: Its farily cheap Lots of people know how to use it & advise if you have problems As Apple make quicktime and the ipod & apple tv, we should be confident that its output will be compatible Its pretty easy to use con's: Its not free (some alternatives are free but can be harder to use) Its not the fastest If you want to make 640x480 files and your video to be encoded is interlaced, quicktime doesnt do deinterlacing and so makes a pigs ear of the results Lack of manual control over bitrate (& thus filesize) if using apple ipod & tv presets I still havent found the perfect alternative h264 encoder that is free or dirt cheap for Windows, is easy to use, and accepts most formats of video, and handles de-interlacing, although Im sure such an app exists or could be made out of existing free & hard to use stuff. The only alternative commercial Windows h264 encoder I hav experience with is Nero Recode 2. It may represent good value if all the other apps it comes packaged with (cd writing etc), are of use. It is faster than qucktime encoding for sure. I am not sure how up-to-date its device profiles (ipod etc) are, but it does offer a lot of encoding options, which is a good and bad thing. I cant remember wheher its intelligent when it comes to deinterlacing or not, I will use it again soon to refresh my knowledge. http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/Nero_Recode_2.html Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course that would be the answer, Jobs and Gates never heard the > song Ebony and Ivory I am guessing.... ;-) > > you know the whole part about living together in perfect > harmony....ok, maybe I am the only one who thought that was funny.... > > Heath > http://batmangeek.com > > --- In [email protected], "David Meade" <meade.dave@> > wrote: > > > > From what I recall ... it's not vegas' fault but Quicktime's. There > > is something about the Windows Quicktime API that is not exposed to > > windows applications (not even if you have QT Pro installed). I'm > > pretty sure its the AAC audio codec. > > > > Basically windows applications cant request the AAC codec be used > via > > the QT API. > > > > You can use all sorts of other QT stuff ... but cant do ipod > formatted > > video without QT Pro ... because on a windows box only QT pro is > going > > to be able to access the parts of QT for Windows that allows for AAC > > audio compression. > > > > ... poorly described ... but the bottom line is that in windows you > > need QT Pro, and you have to actually use it (not some other app) to > > do the final compression. > > > > -- > > http://www.DavidMeade.com > > >
