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From: Shellgrip on 15 Mar 2007 11:20
This is kind of a weird question but I don't really understand what's going on.
I have a Director (MX) application that shows a quicktime movie and forms part
of a CDExtra package for a band's album release. The band wanted to add some
bonus tracks so, to squeeze it all onto a CD I had to recompress the video to a
smaller size. During the process (of course) I kept checking the quality and
made it the best for the space available. I was doing this using the Quicktime
(7.0) player.

I've just burned and run up the test CD and the video playing in the Director
app is WAY better quality than what I was seeing when viewing directly in the
QT7 player. Specifically, there are credits (white on black scrolling) at the
end of the video that were virtually unreadable in QT7 but which are as clear
as day in the Director app?

What's going on here? I can only assume it's something to do with display
overlay drivers but I've never noticed this before and it's a little annoying
as it probably means I didn't have to sail so close to the wind to get a decent
look.

Anyone got any ideas? It seems odd that the Apple provided player doesn't
show you the best quality possible.

Jon

From: Rob Dillon - Adobe Community Expert on 15 Mar 2007 12:30
Hi Jon,

Director uses the digital video player that you point it to. This dv
player is usually selected by Director based on the extension of the
video file. There is one mpeg video xtra that is its own player.

How are you playing the dv file? The QT xtra just provides an interface
between the Director movie and the QT player that's installed on the
user's computer. It has no playback capability of its own.

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Rob
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From: Shellgrip on 15 Mar 2007 13:14
Hi Rob, this is terribly embarrassing but the project file was lost when my
machine crashed last year so I can't examine the code to see how I actually put
the thing together. However, it's a standard Quicktime mov file so I imagine I
would have used the basic Quicktime xtra, I don't recall doing anything fancy
with it, just stuck it on a simple background and pointed it at the file.

The difference is really quite remarkable. Since my original post I've tried
resizing the QT window, changing various options and so on and nothing comes
close to the level of quality I see on the projector.

Would it help if I posted the projector somewhere and the mov file it's using?

Jon

From: Rob Dillon - Adobe Community Expert on 15 Mar 2007 16:51
No, there's no need to post the files. I was just wondering if the
difference was based on the compression format used for the QT file. It
doesn't sound like that's the case.

Its good that the video looks better and not worse.

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Rob
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Adobe Community Expert
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