Best Options for QT encoding before converting to mpg2?

[Gray Fox]

Hi,

I bought a nifty program "Still Life 2". It enables you to pan and scan over a set of photos...

The program allows saving as dv or a quicktime movie.

I have Quicktime Pro. If I choose save as quicktime in the program I have *many* choices for compression.

If my utimate goal is to produce an SCVD (ie mpg2). Does anyone have a good suggestion as to which codec to use and of course what options for the codec...

I plan on using ffmpgx to convert from the "mov" file to mpg2.

Thanks,

Jerry

[Ross]

I prefer Photo Jpeg, it is lossless and forces progressive output.

[Cornucopia]

Photo-Jpeg is NOT lossless (Is there any JPEG that is?).

What you might be thinking of is the ANIMATION codec at the "Best" quality setting. There may be some others that do lossless (too bad there isn't a HUFFYUV).
There are some good hiqual alternatives:
Component Video
MJPEGA
MJPEGB
AVID's codecs (variant MJPEG)
DV, etc...

Scott

[ZeroSix]

I always use a motion jpeg codec with a quality of 85.

The result as far as quality loss is very unnoticable.

Although this does result in large file size for the .mov file.

Give it a try.