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SoMadPhie

SoMadPhie

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For my videos, I've been uploading them as quicktime files (.mov) but it makes the video bad quality. What format do you recommend uploading my videos in? Thanks!
 
.MOV's in and of themselves shouldn't be bad quality and just switching to a different file type may not fix your problem. What resolution, bitrate, framerate, and codec are you uploading at?
 
sirkibble2 said:
.MOV's in and of themselves shouldn't be bad quality and just switching to a different file type may not fix your problem. What resolution, bitrate, framerate, and codec are you uploading at?
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I just bought a Nikon dslr and am starting to use that. Up to this point, I've just used my iPhone 5's rear camera. I know it does 1080p videos and I think I usually have 25 or 30 fps. The quality is always good when I'm editing and when it's in an mp4 format, but when I convert it to quicktime, the videos become really grainy. I'm curious as to what is happening because I don't want the same thing to happen when I'm using my Nikon.
 
SoMadPhie said:
I just bought a Nikon dslr and am starting to use that. Up to this point, I've just used my iPhone 5's rear camera. I know it does 1080p videos and I think I usually have 25 or 30 fps. The quality is always good when I'm editing and when it's in an mp4 format, but when I convert it to quicktime, the videos become really grainy. I'm curious as to what is happening because I don't want the same thing to happen when I'm using my Nikon.
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I just exported out my recent video in Quicktime and there's no noticeable difference. I think the color may be slightly different but everything was fine. So, it may have something to do with how you're exporting. But first, are you recording your videos and then converting them to Quicktime before editing? If so, that's probably the issue. If not, then it's probably the way you're exporting the video.
 
sirkibble2 said:
I just exported out my recent video in Quicktime and there's no noticeable difference. I think the color may be slightly different but everything was fine. So, it may have something to do with how you're exporting. But first, are you recording your videos and then converting them to Quicktime before editing? If so, that's probably the issue. If not, then it's probably the way you're exporting the video.
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I don't convert and edit. I upload the videos and then edit in iMovie. I updated to mavericks and got the iMovie update and it's a lot different than the old one so I'm not quite sure how to directly export the movie using QuickTime and it isn't working when I try to directly upload it to YouTube. So I export it to my desktop as an .mp4 and then use "any video converter" to convert it into a .mov then upload it to iMovie
 
Erm... I've uploaded all of my past videos in WMV or whatever it is you get from Windows Movie Maker. I just always assumed the bad quality upload was because of the bad quality camera. Didn't know files and such had different effects on the quality. O_O

The more you know...
 
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