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Exporting QuickTime MOV video

Adobe video Encoder for MOV

Settings for encoder

File>Export>Export media encoder
Format: QuickTime
Range: entire sequence
Preset: NTSC Slource to Download 25kbps
Check Export Video and Export Audio
Video tab:
- Video Codec: Apple MPEG4 Compressor
- Basic Video Settings:
  - Quality: 50 -- sets compression level. You can experiment with raising and lowering this to see tradeoffs between file size and quality
  - Frame width [pixels]: should slide to width of video from Premiere project, or you can halve it, as long as the 4:3 ratio is maintained
  - Frame height [pixels]: adjust to conform with ratio to frame width
  - Frame rate [fps]: can leave at 29.97, as set in project, or to reduce file size, set it to 15 fps. Experiment to see tradeoffs between file size and quality
  - Field order: None (progressive) -- what you set in project
  - Pixel Aspect ration: Square Pixels
  - Bit Depth: 24 bit - Color
- Bitrate Settings: Set Bitrate: 16 or 32 kbps

Export MOV version through Adobe Media Encoder

Adobe Media Ecoder Audio setup for MOV file with low quality audio

Audio Tab

Audio Codec: u-Law 2:1
Basic Audio Settings:
- Output channels: Mono yields smaller filesize
- Frequency: 11 kHz gives smaller file size
Click OK to render video in left window

MOV file compression gives very high quality results, with the corresponding large file size.
MOV files can be embedded within XHTML pages using <object> tags developed by Elizabeth Castro available in
Bye Bye Embed on the "A List Apart" website
NOTE: this code no longer works on February 26, 2009
The first version below is 4.0Mb. The difference from the second version is from the audio settings. This version has stereo audio, set at 11Khz.

The movie runs 32 seconds and has 1026 frames.
The larger version (360x240) is 2,999 KB
The smaller verison (180x120) is 571 kb