Re: [Avid-L2] H.264 File Size seems low?

Forget what Quicktime says - what dies the Finder say? Get info on the file.

I've found Quicktime to be just flat-out WRONG a lot of the time. The Finder
is never wrong.
--
Tim McLaughlin
Final Cut and Avid Editor
http://vimeo.com/mcltim
www.mcltim.com

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:02 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

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> I have a 24 second .mov file for final delivery and the file size is 57.60
> MB according to QT 7. Format is H.264 1920x1080. Millions AAC. Stereo (LR)
> 48.000 KHz
> FPS: 29.97. This seems really small for 24 secs of 1080I HD video. This
> is video with noise to make it look like a 70's/80's sitcom open. I usually
> expect around a gig a minute for full res files, obviously this varies but
> my ball park says it should be around 400MB not 57. The video is live
> action stuff so it's not some super optimized graphic element. I'm told the
> graphics company are young kids so you decide what that means. I said we
> need an uncompressed .mov in animation at best or prores. This is for an HD
> 1080I 59.94 HDCam delivery to a cable network so I think this file isn't up
> to snuff. Given all the noise and grain crap in the video it might not
> really make much difference but I want a bigger file to compare. Am I
> nuts? I hate to think that the graphics company is trying to save render
> time and upload time at the expense of quality. I don't usually think of
> H.264 as the proper format to deliver graphic elements for an
> online edit but I'm sure there are many flavors of H.264 I'm just use to
> getting highly compressed versions for approval. Any insight as to
> something I'm overlooking here would be appreciated.
>
> John Moore
>
> Barking Trout Productions
>
> Studio City, CA
>
> bigfish@pacbell.net
>
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