X2 - Creating MOV file with Stereo Sound

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:39 pm

Hello All,

I helped a friend make a short video to enter in a Film Festival. They wanted it in MOV format at high quality settings. I figured they were going to use an Apple laptop to play through a projector. I made inquiries and that's exactly what they are going to do.

I also had to maintain 16:9 Aspect Ratio so when converting from SD DV-AVI format getting the pixel dimensions was crucial. I had no problems here by going to:

Create Video File/Custom - selecting quicktime, adjusting the pixel domensions.

However, when trying to customise the Sound properties, X2 would crash.

I tried this several times with the same crash problems. So I am stuck with a nice video with a horrible sounding mono sound.

Other than creating a template (which I thought of well after I delivered the DVD (data file)). Does anyone know how else I could have resolved this?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:20 pm

Could you use an audio editor for the sound, then import into VS?

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:31 pm

Hi Clevo

What settings are you trying to use for your mov custom template.?
There are many compression types to choose from.

I have used X2 with no problems in creating several custom options similar to:-

QuickTime Movie Files
24 bits, 1280 x 720, 30 fps
Frame-based
Photo - JPEG
None, 8.000 KHz, 16 bits, Stereo

I am a little unsure as what audio compressor to use so left it as None.

My program never crashed during these tests.

I own a Panasonic TZ5 that uses Mov files, I will check the properties of these when I get back to my desktop pc.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:45 pm

Hi Clevo

As your video is Dv-Avi, I created settings to DV-Pal

QuickTime Movie Files
24 bits, 1280 x 720, 30 fps
Frame-based
DV - PAL
None, 8.000 KHz, 16 bits, Stereo

again no crashes.

I haven't use any settings to render so cannot comment on quality........

Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:39 am

I was trying out Quicktime format in VideoStudio X3 and also in another app and when I tried to modify the audio settings there was a crash. That was with Quicktime version 7.6.5.

I uninstalled 7.6.5, rebooted, then installed 7.6.2 and rebooted. That fixed the problem for me.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:31 am

Hi

A similar problem occurred to me when updating from VS 9 to VS10,

I am running QuickTime 7.0.3

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:22 pm

So it seems the solution is to go for the lower version of quicktime....

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:38 pm

... or at least don't upgrade from the version installed with that version of VS...

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:34 pm

Installing an older version of Quicktime does indeed solve my issue but it creates another.

iTunes requires at least quicktime v 7.6.4 to work. I installed v 7.0.3 which fixed my problem but created the issue with iTunes & Vista Aero

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:14 am

Hi Clevo

I mentioned I had similar problems with VS 9 to 10.

Eventually I did install the latest QT and found it worked ok, this was with my old XP system.

I don¡¦t know what files if any the older versions change, its just strange.

Maybe manually updating to the latest rather than the auto update is the way to go, a little like the Direct x update.