UWM Film Technical Forum

[collinsd]

After putting together a series of stills that were exported into QT movies exactly as prescribed in the Film116 website, making sure that the settings were correct (H.264, 320x240 pixels, 15fps, medium quality, etc.), I put these into a mixed (movies from stills and video) file and exported to a new file using the same settings mentioned above. Unlike last project (Drift 2), I'm getting huge file sizes and I don't understand why. My exported QT Movies are around 30MB. Strangely, I have MP3's around 2MB and when added to the QT Movie the new exported file (using the same setting as above) is a whopping 60MB. What's going on? I looked at the movie properties and all the pixel sizes (original, display, scaled) are 320x240. And for some reason the button "preserve aspect ratio" will not allow itself to remain unchecked. It continues to recheck itself every time I uncheck it. Arrrgggghhh!

[collinsd]

I also tried going through all the photos and resizing them to 320x240 before turning them into a QT movie. I then exported them with the correct H.264 settings to a new QT movie and the file was actually larger than the one that was exported directly from the large pixel photos. This is maddening. I will never use QT again.