Quicktime and Encoder

Josh Mellicker josh at dvcreators.net
Mon Nov 19 18:01:55 EST 2007


On Nov 19, 2007, at 3:18 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

>
>
> 2. Has anybody a personal quality comparison between the Sorenson 3  
> codec
> and the new H.264? Is H.264 actually now the "state of the art"?  
> Which codec
> is the best quality choice in your eyes for offline content, no  
> streaming,
> not worrying of the file size?
>


H.264 is by far the best video compression codec in the world.

Better than Sorenson 3 VBR, much better than plain Sorenson 3.

If size is no object, because large H.264 decoding puts a strain on  
old computers, try PJPEG at 90% quality.



>
> 5. If you use a flash codec in a mov file. Has the output the same  
> quality
> as a native flash movie? - In your personal experience



A Flash layer in QT is vector only- You cannot embed an FLV in QT.

However, the Flash plugin now supports H.264.



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