Andreas, Thanks for taking the time:
> Use Quicktime Pro where you can type in your own bitrate. Bitrate is adjustable in PE as well, it's just that the settings are so high I was very surprised. I have QT pro (maybe not the most recent though) and maybe that's why stuff is weird. I'll take a look. > > > 2) The result, even at a high bps looked like crap, lots of artifacts. > > Every other format looked better. There must be a magic setting I'm > > missing. > > Use Quicktime Pro where you have absolute control over the settings. I'll look again at my version and consider donating to Steve's retirement... again! > > 3) I'm creating videos at 480x360 24fps. Is this part of the problem? > > I h264 related more to 320x240 or some other size? > > No. I'm creating weirder sizes (500x376 and 600x339) and they look smokin' > hot. Something tells me that Premiere isn't smokin' hot. Just use > Quicktime Pro instead. Thats' good to know. > > We're at a critical stage in video becomeing popular. It's too bad > > there's no standard, I'm afraid Flash is the closest we have to one. > > (Opinions solicited) > > h.264 is a codec, Flash is a container format. The two cannot be compared. > You can have an h.264 Flash video for example. Yeah, actually my last remark was aimed at the containers. It's very confusing to viewers, all this plugin download and crap. We may think it's a pain, but they often just go away if they don't have the right one. In fact, I often go away if audio is *only* available in RealAudio. AT one time it was the standard, now I flee from it like the plague :)
