DirectX
2007 August 14th, 23:28
Hi,
I'm new to these forums and editing in general. I purchased an HV20 and I'm amazed at the quality of this little camera. I took some test shots this past weekend and loaded them into iMovie. When I view it in iMovie the quality is amazing, but when I copy it to a DVD via iDVD the footage is just okay when viewed on a 42" plasma. I'm assuming it's because it's downconverted to SD on the DVD and I don't know if my friend has an HD TV or not. I then put the DVD into the computer and it actually looked better on the TV believe it or not. Since I've seen some great quality movies online in .mov format I decided to export to quicktime at "web" quality (full quality would have been over 2Gigs). The quality on QT was almost unwatchable and very compressed. Am I doing something wrong or am I limited with iMovie? I thought QT at least would give some great quality footage I could upload but that was the worst quality. I'm upgrading to FCP 2 in 2 months, will that make a big difference? BTW lots of great info in this forum and everyone seems willing to share their knowledge...even to a newbie like me.
Mark
I'm new to these forums and editing in general. I purchased an HV20 and I'm amazed at the quality of this little camera. I took some test shots this past weekend and loaded them into iMovie. When I view it in iMovie the quality is amazing, but when I copy it to a DVD via iDVD the footage is just okay when viewed on a 42" plasma. I'm assuming it's because it's downconverted to SD on the DVD and I don't know if my friend has an HD TV or not. I then put the DVD into the computer and it actually looked better on the TV believe it or not. Since I've seen some great quality movies online in .mov format I decided to export to quicktime at "web" quality (full quality would have been over 2Gigs). The quality on QT was almost unwatchable and very compressed. Am I doing something wrong or am I limited with iMovie? I thought QT at least would give some great quality footage I could upload but that was the worst quality. I'm upgrading to FCP 2 in 2 months, will that make a big difference? BTW lots of great info in this forum and everyone seems willing to share their knowledge...even to a newbie like me.
Mark