Hi everyone,

Just got my new Canon XH A1 and I am playing around with some settings for web compression, as much of the work I do is for web release. With SD I would use Quicktime Conversion and use custom settings that entailed h.264 with automatic keyframes, automatic bitrate and the current frame rate.

While trying to export HDV footage with Quicktime Conversion I am running into some problems. Specifically, this frame issue that makes the picture jump up and down. Please see what I am talking about here: http://www.magic-mike.net/videos/a1test-3.mov

When I export anything bigger than 338x190 it does this weird jumpy thing. However, sometimes it plays fine and sometimes it doesn't. I've tried choosing the de-interlace option and numerous combinations of video sizes, but they all have this issue except for 338x190. If you have any ideas I would love to hear them, as I was hoping to be uploading videos with a width of around 500.

Thanks

Mike,

It plays fine on my machine. H264 can stutter on playback if the computer the file it is being played on is not up to spec or it's being played over a network- usually a RAM/processor issue, I think. My laptop doesn't like playing large H264's off the desktop but they're fine from an external drive.

Hmmmm, good to know. Thanks a lot!