• Exporting movies using Compressor
• Importing Into DVD Studio Pro

• Importing Panasonic P2 media into Final Cut Pro
• Backing up P2 Cards

I was clued into this little Quicktime trick from a friend of mine. Now, most people might already know this little secret, but for those who don’t it is pretty nifty. First of all you can use any Quicktime file that you have saved, downloaded, or exported to your computer. Open the QT file. Go the top of your screen and choose — Window — Show Movie Properties (Apple Key = J). A new window will pop up. That window will show you Video and Audio properties. Click on the line that is labeled – Video Track. This will change the setting preferences at the bottom of the screen for Video. You can make a number of changes at this point, but what we are interested in is only the Visual Settings Tab. Click on the Visual Settings Tab. At the very bottom right corner of this window there are 3 options that can be checked, High Quality, Single Field, and Deinterlace. First check the box next to High Quality. This will increase the visual quality of your QT file instantly. Now, I’m not exactly sure how this works, or why you have to go through this process to do this, but it is noticeably different. Specifically in titles and text you have in your movie. The other two options are are your discretion to check or not. If you are working with interlaced footage, you should check the Deinterlace box as well. this will remove those ugly horizontal lines from your footage and make your footage appear smoother.

Once you are done checking your boxes, you can close out of the properties window. Now, when you go to close your QT file you will be prompted to SAVE your changes that you made. Save them and your QT file is now updated to its fullest quality.

J. Tallo