I highly recommend the following: 1. Export quicktime from FCP. Not conversion, but "Quicktime Movie", which defaults to your sequences settings (DV, HDV, whatever). If you don't need a big archival full res master, leave "make movie self contained" unchecked.
2. Open in Mpeg Streamclip (www.squared5.com). It's free. 3. Choose export to mpeg4. Click the "itunes" button. 4. Choose your preset from the list of ipod/iphone/appletv options. 5. Adjust data rate if desired. The preset rates are for the highest data rate the device in question can handle. 6. Click "multipass" if you are patient and want much better quality. You can learn about the other options if you want, but it works pretty well leaving them as is. Better than the export presets in quicktime, much faster processing and excellent quality. Brook _______________________________________________________ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
