I'm having some trouble exporting.
When i try to exprt from my editing program to DV tape, it cut off subtitle at the bottom and some other scrolling titles at the beginning of the movie. Anyone know how to fix this?(I'm working off of Video Explosion Deluxe).

That's problem one.

2)I have my movie file saved as a quicktime movie. If i export out of quicktime, will the quality stay the same? What settings do i need to choose when exporting?

Thanx, Mark.

the text being cut off could be becasue you put it in the margins. I dunno about Video explosion, but when editing, premiere lets you see more of the frame than will show on television. if you put text past a certain point on the sides of top/bottom, it will get cut when it's shown on TV, it;s there you just cant see it. So moving your subtitles up should solve that problem.

I'm not sure on the quicktime one, I would guess youd lose quality b/c quicktime is only converting your footage from QT to anotehr format, but i'm not positive.

the cutting off is definitely because of the title safe area. any decent NLE should have an option for "Show title safe" or whatever. A TVs scan image shrinks over time, so to prevent things from ending up surrounded by black on really old TVs they start them off over-scanning, or showing less of the image.

what format of QuickTime is it now?

open it in QuickTime player and choose Info from one of the menus.

if you export to the exact same settings it will be the same. if you export to DV-Stream, or to QuickTime movie, with the codec set to DV-NTSC it should be as good as it can be.

Yes. It sounds like your titles are outside of what is called "TV Safe".

There are two boxes that you can put on the image in most editing programs.

TV Safe - this is the outer box which shows you what part of the image will actually be visible on a TV Screen. The entire frame is not shown on a TV and it is possible to have part of an image outside of "TV Safe". This can be a blessing for repositioning shots however.

Title Safe - This is the inner box and this is where all of your titles should be. The reasoning for this is that most TVs are rounded (not some of the new ones) and if you put a title outside of Title Safe they might appear a little warped or rounded on a TV.

Hope this helps.

-Chris
Studentfilms.com

to export you movie with no quality loss, export as quicktime with the animation codec.

this is uncompressed so the file sizes will be huge, but worth it.

good luck.

animation is lossless as long as the keyframe setting is not used. make sure it is the same as the FPS. but it can easily take up as much as 20mb per second.

if the original codec is a DV one, keeping it DV will be lossless.